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dozu888, Good luck to you. Please keep us posted of your experiences with them, good or bad. Kirk

That figures. With the way it is setup, its amazing anyone ever succeeded with them, now it really doesn't make much sense, even for a beginning trader. For someone with no capital it was appealing with the salary, but now its probably best to just keep plugging away and save up your own...

mm-trader, Try this thread: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=953 There seems to be very little information out there about them. A few people have made comments in the broker review area. They are basically a proprietary firm that will pay you (a very small salary...

trinfo, You are right that the spot market is WAY more liquid than the futures...that has always been a problem for the exchanges. Because most currency trading is done by huge institutions/banks and they are used to the old method of getting raped by each other, there hasn't been much...

def, Do you know what times of day they are actively traded on globex? The appeal of spot forex is the 24 hr liquidity and the ability to trade non-traditional hours. I have not done a lot of research into the globex contracts. thanks, Kirk

Alex, I had a broker from Jack Carl futures contact me to switch from IB and offered $3/side, but that was for the e-mini. I would imagine its a little more for the full contract, but you can trade it with them. They have a nice looking interface with features similar to IB, however I have...

ST, I am running Win 2000 with two monitors and two separate graphics cards, but I would imagine that it will work with four as well. I am basically doing what you described. I restore qcharts so that I can drag it to both screens. Then I just resize it to fill both screens (not...

ST, I have used qcharts on multiple monitors. You should be able to select the option to have your desktop extended across both monitors (in the display properties). Then you just restore down your qcharts and drag the application across both monitors. Of course, this still doesn't make...

Thanks Mike. Looks like its getting better, I'll keep an eye on it. Kirk

Thanks Mike, that is good to hear. If they can get the banks online and using it, then we may have a winner. Do you know if they publish their volume numbers? Do you trade with them? If so, what kind of spreads are you seeing, and does it vary throughout the day or is the liqudity there all...

I suppose all Qcharts users got the same email from them that I did about how sorry they are that their service has stunk lately. I am willing to give them a few more weeks to get it worked out, particularly in light of the decimalization effect on quote streams. I would imagine all vendors...

Jay, If you aren't spamming for FXCM, then please accept my apologies. You will find that most posts on this site that look like advertisements usually are...you know, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... Its important that people interested in forex understand all of these...

I have looked at MatchbookFX, and in theory its a good idea. The problem is that their "ecn" is only open to their clients, and they would never give me a straight answer about what the liquidity was like. They charge $150/month for the software (waived if your commissions exceed $150--$5 per...

Forex is very appealing at first, but be very careful. It would be great to have a liquid market that traded 24 hours a day so that we all could trade whenever our schedules allowed. Free realtime market data and no commissions. Sounds like the perfect market....except that its not. The only...

larrybf, I have also been experimenting with a stochastic on the futures. I trade the S&P mini, but have noticed that the Naz futures sometimes seem smoother in its trend, although I haven't done any testing to know for sure. I have been using ADX to filter for trend. If there is a high...

Andras, There is a book by Mark Boucher called "The Hedge Fund Edge" that talks about asset switching. He has developed several models that beat buy and hold strategies and require less day to day monitoring than daytrading or swing trading. It involves staying on top of world markets and...

Hi All, I read an interesting commentary on Linda Bradford Raschke's website about this bear market. Looking at long term charts of previous bear markets we tend to trade in a range at the midpoint of the full downswing and then head lower. Take a look at the charts for the '66, '67-70 and...

Andras, I have this book and really liked it. Not because it has some magic trading method (There is no book in existence with this, so anyone still looking can save some time now and stop), but because it is written by someone who actually trades for a living. Not someone who writes for a...

Commisso, Ouch, that's a lot of good golf time spent programming! I agree, that if it costs you money to be programming instead of trading (or golfing for that matter, lol) then you should outsource it. But to create the scans you are looking for shouldn't take anywhere near 1000 hours with...

Commisso, Pick up a copy of Futures magazine or Tech. Analysis of Stocks and Commodities and you will find several ads in the classifieds for EasyLanguage programmers. I'm sure they can do what you need, but its worth learning it yourself so that as you develop new ideas you won't have to...