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Maybe this list is worth taking a look at: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm

Same thing for me now (from Europe). "TWS turns purple but still getting quotes. Closed it and now trying to log back in but it doesn't let me."

Agree: Unhappy customers = less business. Today is extremely bad. Just now there was a gap of 1.5 minutes between two ticks. Next print was for 1000 contracts... at a price 9 ticks higher than the previous. IB, I would frankly expect you to send us customers (valued such?) a private mail...

Yes, Globex sure is a problem with IB today. Some Time&Sales from this morning 10:00:08 1 10:01:34 1000 (more than a minute between the ticks) 10:01:55 1 10:03:23 1000 (1.5 minutes later...) I'm NOT going to trade with this crappy feed today. IB - no bulletin so far about the...

Something is wrong with the Globex feed IB. Twice today so far: No feed between: 10:37:44 to 10:39:33 EST = 2 minutes, next print's volume was 218. 10:54:24 to 10:55:33 EST = 1 minute, next print's volume was 323. Do you know what the problem is, and if so, can you assure us that it...

Same problem here in Sweden, both yesterday and today. My ISP have been working all the time, so it's on the IB side. Luckily I have had no trades in the market while disconnected, but will stay not take any chances today. For those who have lost money due to disconnects yesterday and today...

Thankyou xtrhvydty for a good post! To really appreciate it, I think you must have had a similar experience. Going from a well paid job that friends and society saw as very successful, but where you yourself saw that something was missing. Then finding trading and after, in my case three...

Good advice!

Michael, at least if you live in a bigger city, you can get a 0.5-10 Mbit/s connection for about $50 a month. I have 8 Mbit/s for $50. In most smaller towns you can get well connected. Don't know about E-signal, but I'm sure it's no problem. I use IB myself. Taxes are 30% on capital income like...

Do I get this right FX-Trader? Today the exchange charges about $1.14, charges that the broker pays, who in his turn charges traders about $5, leaving the broker with about $4 for costs and profit. If the exchange's price would come down to $0.30, that would make it $0.84 cheaper for the...

In the release, they say: ------------------------------ At the same time Eurex US will offer trading at cost levels far below those currently paid in the U.S. market. The vast majority of trades will be priced at 20 cents per contract or less depending on participation in incentive schemes."...

No, haven't looked at bond futures. However, I understand they are very tradeable. It seems the e-mini bond futures are very thin on volume and I don't have the data feed for the full bond futures. If someone has more information on these, it would be interesting.

To the comparison I made in my first post, I here want to add the apparent noise in each of them. I don’t know if noise is defined somewhere, but for my use, I will here use the height of 1-minute bars during different time zones during the day. In my first post, I had a comparison of the...

Excellent post db. If you have all your trades with entry and exit time, eg in a spread sheet, you can analyze what times of the day you trade best (with a certain style). I recently did that excersise and found it quite useful. Also, If I'm in a trade that goes into the doldrums and I...

PuffyGums, thanks, I guess you're right that the added risk in the thinner contracts should be taken into account.

Yes, commission was something I missed in my post. For all the above mentioned index futures, the commission at TS is $5.60 per RT and contract, a bit less at IB. Calculated in percent of the contract value: ES, ER2, YM: 5.60 / 50000 =0.011% of contract value NQ = 5.60 / 27000 = 0.021% of...

I've mainly been trading the NQ and ES but am now looking into the YM (Dow) and ER2 (Russel 2000) futures. First I wanted to do a comparison so I knew the pros and cons. I thought I'd share that with you. It may not be complete, nor even perfectly correct (some of it is subjective), but for me...

Hej, en svensk till här. Tradar mest QQQ och e-minis genom TradeStation, men då arbetstiden blir "ur synk" med den svenska verkligheten, funderar jag på att gå över till något europeiskt instrument. Frågan är om det finns något som är lika bra som de jag tradar idag som har...

Paxton, what I try to do is to find setups with likely rewards of at least 3 times what I need to risk for a stop well placed. I find it useful to manage my setups this way. Some, but not many, of these trades turn out to be 5 or even 10 times the risk. Some I take profit at 2 times, some at...

Opw, when I started trading, I mostly traded different stocks, but with time I learned that I was more successful concentrating on one vechicle. That was QQQ with all the advantages it offers. I've also looked at Nasdaq e-minis. It worked fine with the intraday moves and follow-through on...