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Looking for a piece of software which reports real time risk statistics on a futures portfolio - most important things I'm looking for are: risk to stop ($ and % of portfolio), total exposure $, correlating market risk, trailing stop adjusted risk. Is there anything out there that can do this...

Interesting you're experiencing the same problem. There's been a couple of times (both during light holiday trading) where I noticed the price has spiked down sharply taking out all the stops, shortly therafter returning to where it started, creating what I think are sometimes referred to as...

Been getting a number of bad fills on my stops in coffee on the ICE.... Can anyone confirm - if I use a stop limit order via Pats JTrader is this order 'visible' to the rest of the market (ie can they see the price and the number of lots I'm looking to get out of)? Obviously widening the stops...

Had considered Satellite, but I heard there's quite a bit of latency which wouldn't be practical for trading - I have a VPN at the moment which helps speed things up most of the time, but sometimes it's overloaded and slows down (I know this because if I turn it off and browse normally, the...

Hi, I'm trading out of China as as such the internet access can be pretty patchy at best. I'm looking for a fast and secure VPN (Virtual Private Network) from a reputable company to help speed up connections to my broker, price feed etc.... Can anyone please make any recommendations? Many...

I would also be interested in hearing from any users of TraderDNA. I took a look at the website and it looks quite promising. Any comments much appreciated. Best regards Ridu

I've spent some time looking at Ninja Trader and have come up against a few problems: 1. It doesn't seem to work with Future Source Work Station Data Feed. 2. I can load it up to pats, but it appears not possible to import historic trades for performance analysis (neither auto import nor...

that's a great help, thanks for taking the time to reply. Best, ridu

it's during the course of a month, where I have positions both open, and closed out for either a profit or a loss. last months $ cash balance was negative during the course of the month after a few loosing positions, with interest payment over $200 on the negative dollar balance, but more than...

does anyone else have experience with this with their broker? I'd have though that if they are not paying interest on the euros, and if the negative $ balance is covered by the euro balance, then surely no interest should be payable on the $ deficit? or does it work differently in practice? very...

Seem to be putting in a bottom... Is there any to get leveraged exposure to mainland Chinese equities? I know there's the Hang Seng Index, but it's not a pure mainland play (the correlation seems to have broken down the past few months), then there's the mainland 'a' and 'b' shares, but no...

Hi, I understand it's not the norm to receive interest on commodity cash collateral, however I just found my broker is charging me a 'negative interest' if my USD balance goes in the red, even when my positions are fully covered by my Euro base currency... (all surplus $ are converted to EUR at...

Seen him on CNBC a few times and seems to know his stuff. Does anyone here subscribe to his letter, and if so how much does it cost? Not much info on the website. Thanks, Ridu

Hi I have a few questions about these, very grateful if anyone can help! I want to bet on rising inflation and raising of long term interest rates, I'm considering short 10 T-Notes and / or 30 yr T-Bonds.... Can anyone comment on which of the two is likely to show the most downside potential...

that's great, thanks a lot! I will try out the ninjatrader, sounds exactly what I am looking for. thanks again, and good trading. Ridu

Hi, I'm looking to track my trading performance on commodity futures: average win, average loss, win to loss ratio; daily, monthly, annual P&L, sharpe ratios, MAR etc, using data tables and charting. Is there any software that anyone can recommend which can handle the above? Many thanks...

thanks for the replies. is there a euro denominated equivalent to t-bills which is accepted by brokers for commodity margin? I have base currency euro which makes the t-bills tricky. other than that it looks like I may need to move to IB, or another broker who can offer interest. thanks...

Can anyone confirm if it is normal practice for a commodities broker to pay interest on cash deposits? I currently have $600K deposited with my broker and thus far they are refusing to pay any interest on the cash. (It's an introducing broker running through Man Financial) My other question...

thanks for the replies, that's a great help. so I'm bullish corn, soy over the next few months to a year, but I'm trying to figure out where on the curve to buy... I gather there's acreage problems going into late 08/09 (new crop), with soy, corn competing for space against cotton...

Hi, can anyone please tell me which futures months relate to 'new crop' wheat, corn and soy? Are all the grains 'new crop' months the same? Many thanks Ridu