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Herry, Make sure your data provider has seconds on the time values or your tick playback capability will be useless.

CBOT Gold (full size) is pretty good. It's volatility and range are very similar to the ER2 (i.e., intraday moves of $300-$400 per contract). Silver can get a bit thin, with a wide spread. In addition to gold, I would recommend NYMEX mini crude futures (QM) and CME EUR/USD futures (E6).

I'd like to hear some ideas from traders who are using fully-automated systems regarding the criteria you use to expire entry signals. Currently, I'm manually trading an intraday system that's under development. It generates signals for approximately twenty different futures products, with...

I've been using Neoticker RT with IQFeed for two months, and I'm very happy with both of the products (I've had IQFeed for two years with very few complaints). The service from both companies is exceptional.

What brand of video card do you currently have? It sometimes causes trouble to mix brands. What motherboard slots do you have open (PCI, PCI express, etc.)? This will help narrow the possibilities a bit.

Instead of specifying stops that are determined as a fixed percentage of capital, number of ticks, etc., consider using stops based on the average true range (or a similar volatility-derived measure). The market doesn't know or care about the price at which your equity is down by two percent...

After researching all the leads, AVG and True Image look like winners. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. Regards, William

It looks like a good product. Any warnings to go with the suggestion? Thanks! Regards,

I currently use norton systemworks 2005 for antivirus and drive imaging. I'm unhappy with norton's large footprint on my system resources and slow boot times. I would appreciate suggestions for replacing these two applications (especially ghost). Most tech reviews don't address the system...

Did you look at their SpreadTrader within TWS?

I think IB's BookTrader is great (and other DOM ladders as well -- XTrader's, etc.). However, I think I'm getting distracted by it when my eyes should be focused solely on my charts and T&S. While I definitely glean some useful information from it about short-term market direction and...

Delete this post in which you note that it's worthless and then sell it to someone else for $300.

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If I have a limit order to sell resting in the IDEALPRO order book (no other orders showing at that price) and the market moves toward my order such that IB's best offer is the same price as my limit order, do I get the first fill if someone hits the offer or does IB?

I think I agree with you (I wrote my post before I saw OP's second message w/ screenshot).

It sounds like you need more memory (your processor is plenty fast). Fortunately, it's cheap and easy to add. Unfortunately, your system can only hold 1 GB. If you currently have 640 MB, then you probably have a 512 and a 128 in your two available slots. You can swap out the 128 for another...

Thanks for the follow-up, Jay. Regards,

What's wrong with IB? You can definitely trade futures on several different European exchanges, and I'm pretty sure you can specify EUR as the base currency in your account instead of USD (unless it's an IRA).

iqfeed, can you please provide some more definitive info on the expected timing of this update?

I use Norton Systemworks Premier 2005, and I would definitely like to rid my life of Symantec at this point. The programs are horrible resource hogs. Obviously the anti-virus is easily replaced, but please suggest a good substitute for Ghost. Thanks!