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QuoteTracker ( www.quotetracker.com ) will probably do what you want for charting and its free. There are several realtime data feeds that you can use with it that are inexpensive (or free in some cases).

The best source for the technical contract information and the basics of how they trade are the exchange websites. http://www.cme.com/education/index.cfm http://www.cbot.com/cbot/www/page/0,1398,14,00.html The book I mentioned above, "The Futures Game: Who Wins, Who Loses, & Why" was...

You are correct that the contract value of the NQ is $19,640. You get this by multiplying the index value (982) times the dollar value of each point ($20). Margin and contract value are totally different things. The $3k (IB margin on 1 NQ) is just a "performance bond". You don't actually...

Originally posted by qazmax I thought the further out the future the more expensive? Why is ES2U always a higher bid than ES2Z? U = Sep and Z= Dec right? Its all about expectations. Normally the out months would trade at a premium due to the "cost of carry" or the interest you are...

Originally posted by granville x 1. I frankly don't get it why trading futures, say NQ, are more risky than let's say QQQs. Can someone explain the basic logic behind that? As I see it, and probably being wrong, I can either buy 800 QQQs or 1 contract of NQ (20 NQs) for the same price. If I...

Originally posted by Rake Could people recommend a good brokerage firm? Maybe give me your top 3 picks... You'll be hard pressed to beat Interactive Brokers. I wouldn't use anyone else except as a backup. Some like the J-Trader software that several brokers offer, just do a search on...

So you're saying she traded up from Alec? :D

Thanks Willibald

Willibald, On your test of the 5 minute bars, are you moving the stop up one tick every 5 minutes (as opposed to each minute as in profitseer's original rule)? Are you using the same 10 tick stop or does it require more room on the 5min? Does the system just "stop and reverse" after the...

In case anyone missed it, the new Quotetracker beta supports IB quotes and trading. Its equities only right now. http://www.quotetracker.com/beta/

Hi autotrader, Nice program. I've been playing with it on the demo and have a couple of questions. I submitted an order (that was filled) and then realized that I hadn't set my target/scale out orders like I wanted, so I hit "cancel all open orders". Now I can't seem to enter new...

The CDMA carriers in the U.S. (Verizon and Sprint) have launched their 1xRTT service recently. They call it 3G, but its really 2.5G, as the speeds are still sub 1 Mbps. For a cellular network, its the best you can do in the States at the current time. 1x will (in theory) support speeds up to...

My experience with the demo system leads me to believe the answer is "it depends". I've mainly used the demo for testing some of the new automated stop programs on the futures, and I've noticed that sometimes the data is live, sometimes delayed, and sometimes non-existent. That may be...

A friend of mine once told me that one of his trade setups was to buy the S&P whenever the VIX closed above 35 and to sell it when it closed below 28 (or maybe it was 26, I can't remember for sure). Anyway, he said that it worked about 80% of the time but that he rarely bought the bottom and...

sshhhhhhhh bung...you're giving away the true "secret" to trading(-like) success. :D

555, you crack me up sometimes... Has anyone seen the t.v. commercial? Somebody asks this guy, who looks like he's 23 yrs old and is packing up his personal belongings at the office, how he is able to RETIRE so early...so he tells them he owes it all to channelingstocks.com, and then...

Husky, Do a search on this site for ETG or the firms uptik mentioned. You will find more than you need I'm sure. :)

You are correct that that is the TOTAL value of the contract, but it is not the amount you have to put up to trade it. Futures have higher leverage than stocks (in a retail environment). In the case of the NQ, Interactive Brokers requires an initial margin of $3000 (I haven't checked lately...

Nice work m_c_a98. Just a tip for anyone trying it out on the web demo. I was trying it out with the TWS demo on a pc that didn't have the standalone TWS installed. I kept getting a "can't find TWS.ocx" message (or something like that). When I used it on my main pc with TWS installed, it...

js, You can hear it online at http://www.kfnn.com/ if there is no station in your area.