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Thanks for the suggestion. I need to figure out if I can trade the exchange traded spreads with my account.

Also, make sure that your antivirus program is not doing anything in the background. Check the task manager to see which programs are utilizing the CPU. In my case, I noticed that Norton Antivirus creeps on me; I ended up suppressing 'background' tasks while TS was running...

Thanks! It looks like liquidity is pretty low in the front month. I have to take a look at it during regular hours. I think I am back to $12.5 per tick.

Thanks! Indeed it is. http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/stir/eurodollar_contract_specifications.html What is the front month now? I am looking at EDM11 and the tick increments are 0.005 ($12.5).

Thank you Martinghoul for the suggestions. Though, I need some movement so I can sell/buy at the same price. I'll check that contract out. Thanks.

I'm tied up with that platform for now...

Hi all, I have an 'indecent' question :) I am looking for the best market that I can buy and sell at the exact same price for 5-6 contracts. I am not trying to make any money off of this. I need to trade a min. # of contracts per month otherwise my broker will charge a set fee. I am...

Hi all, Was there any news behind the CL spike around 1:20 pm EST today? Thanks

If I am not mistaken, CME offers the historical data for the actual exchange traded spreads. I am not sure that how much it costs.

Thanks Rodney King!

This might be slightly off topic here; however, I noticed that there are some very knowledgeable people here... I am also planning to launch a managed futures fund -- I have a reasonably decent track record for about 7 months now. I have a potential big investor interested in putting some...

Thanks! I thought about this little bit more. Let's say for $100 total trading profits, they would show $50 expense which would be sent to me. They would pay capital taxes for $50 gain and I would pay income tax for my general income of $50.

Hi all, I was approached by a headhunter regarding the possibility of trading (futures) for a prop firm using their capital. She says they pay 50% of the profit. I wonder how the taxation works in this case. Let's say we are profitable... If the firm pays capital gains tax and then pays...

Oh that's interesting. I thought the issue was with the futures especially CME Group products.

Has anyone had the CME data problems yesterday with Tradestation? The data coming in was very 'jittery' for almost couple of hours. I wonder what happened. I haven't heard back about an 'official' explanation yet.

Does anyone know if there are SEC etc... restrictions for US citizens directly trading foreign stocks in foreign stock exchanges? For instance, Interactive Brokers has a big list of available foreign stock exchanges in their web site. Can US citizens trade stocks directly in any of them?

What do you need? I might be able to help you. Please send me a pm.

I agree that it's definitely not easy going from 0 to $40,000,000 in a few years. However, I've seen it done --- the fund I worked at did those exact numbers in 1.5 years.

We don't need a huge amount to start with. $500k-1M would be a good start.

Well at least, potential partner found the 'money' to start trading to build a track record. And he has the connections so I think he'll be able to get some more without major difficulty.