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yes your broker can make a difference in speed due to the quality of their IT staff, the number of traders you are sharing exchanges gateways with, etc.... The person that recommended looking at the audit trail to measure performance gave you good advice. the log will show two kinds of...

There are a lot of great add on tools up there as well. You need XTPro for them to run.

first my usual disclaimer: I am a TT shareholder so my opinions have bias. However i am also relatively informed on this topic so maybe i can help. 1) MD Trader has already received a patent in europe 2) It depends what one means by dynamic ladder. If you make a price ladder that is...

or it confirms that that the only people that would spend their time taking an online meyer briggs test and then talking about it in an online forum are NT

Here's how i do it: from a market grid window i select the cells that i want to have a live feed from. I then right click and pick copy. Then in excel i right click on the cell where i want the data to appear and pick paste special... in the dialog box that appears i pick "link" which...

i use http://www.r-project.org plus QCollector and an esignal feed for data.

Hi Smooth, QuantDeveloper uses the QuickFix engine for its FIX messaging, maybe you can look at the quickfix logs and it will give you a clue what is going wrong? I develop with the quickfix engine myself and i know that it can be very picky about message formats and so on. look for a...

Hi Smooth, I have played around with QD in a very limited way, and with TTs FIX adapter in a slightly less limited way. As near as I can tell you are correct that the QD libraries rely on evironment variables that you can see in the Configuration tool but not change. Its not clear how...

It helps a lot thank you for the very thoughtful response. One thing that prompted my question is that i noticed when i restricted myself to random trades of identical duration but without profit targets i ended up with a distribution that had a decidedly negative mean (even for large...

good point, what bloomberg did is extremely impressive i totally agree with you about that...i guess i made the mistake of thinking of him more as a businessman and less as a trader. There's no arguing that bloomberg is a cash machine. hull/petterfy i picked mostly because i was impressed...

I second the previous votes for: harris brumfield blair hull i would add: thomas petterfy

acrary, This might be a stupid question but what is the best way to generate the random trades in the edge test? I would like to test against an intraday system that i have currently. It seems like you're trying to do apples to apples comparisons by selecting trades of equal durations...

Yes it can...i do this profitably every day with CQG but you can also use eSignal or really anything that supports DDE. You could probably use tradestation too though i never have... You can send signals into XTrader with DDE, XTAPI (active x or .net interface) or use the FIX api.

I can see why people might be "misinformed"... Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Refco Inc., the futures broker under investigation for hiding a $430 million debt, filed for court protection from creditors in the fourth-largest U.S. bankruptcy. link to article

great idea for a thread http://www.infrant.com Makes awesome 1TB to 1.6 TB network storage devices (that are also print servers) cost about $1000 If you don't know why you need a NAS checkout their website and the tom's networking review...

Security fears as flu virus that killed 50 million is recreated Ian Sample, science correspondent Thursday October 6, 2005 The Guardian Scientists have recreated the 1918 Spanish flu virus, one of the deadliest ever to emerge, to the alarm of many researchers who fear it presents a...

Sorry i don't think i expressed myself well. As i said at the end i consider pandemics a real threat and i'm not against spending money on them. When i said i didn't understand everybody being in lockstep, what i meant is that there seems to be a high level of coordination between politicians...

I think you have to actually handle an infected bird to get it from a chicken. My understanding is that you don't get it from cooked chicken. Anyway the big fear is that H5N1 mutates so that it can hop human to human.

Sinovac (SVA) also glaxo makes Tamiflu but they're probably too big for a pure play? GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) I don't really understand why exactly but both democrats and the administration (and the press) all seem to be in lockstep in their attempts to get $5-10Billion set aside for...

Very interesting, i will definitely check that book out. What you say definitely lines up with my experience. I have a system that i profitably trade. I never override it but i have a pretty good feel for the kinds of days (and situations) that it tends to do well / poorly. I have resisted...