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    Bright trading and any thoughts

    I trade at Echo after considering Bright. So here's my comparison. You are correct that Bright has a formal training program and Echo does not. However, you have to pay for the beginning one. $1000 for the 3 day course. More for boot camp. Continuing education is free. Even though I ended up...
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    Opening Orders - 2008

    Cut my cps in half to compare correctly to lescor's. I'll take .07 anyday, anytime. Too bad it doesn't happen every day.
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    Uptick rule

    Why do you only seem to be against "manipulation" to the downside? And how can you prove that the object of a bear raid doesn't end up trading where it should be? It just got there faster than it would have without the uptick rule. And finally, how can you prove that it's shorts hitting...
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    Opening Orders - 2008

    Oh yes. There was a day in August that was just nasty. And there have been plenty of other decent sized losers. There's definitely potential for loss with this method.
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    Opening Orders - 2008

    No, I was green right from the start.
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    Opening Orders - 2008

    Yes
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    Opening Orders - 2008

    Generally speaking the bigger the futures opening in either direction, the more excitement you're going to get. Sometimes it's good excitement, other times not so good.
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    Opening Orders - 2008

    Once in a while..... I think I need to keep badmouthing the strategy. :D
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    Opening Orders - 2008

    That was one crazy open! Heck of a way to start the month/qtr. (no, this isn't an April Fools joke)
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    Sterling Platform Performance

    I don't know the exact details, but I know we don't got through Sterling.
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    Sterling Platform Performance

    I think you misunderstood me. My firm connects directly to a data service and clearing firm. It does not connect to Sterling. What cannot connect directly to an exchange or data provider directly is your client side Sterling platform.
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    Sterling Platform Performance

    I more or less did. Most Sterling users connect directly to Sterling's servers. Some of us connect to servers at our own firms. But you need to connect to a server running the Server version of Sterling. So that would preclude connecting directly to an exchange or data provider.
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    Opening Orders - 2008

    It's not easy money anymore, but there's still an edge there.
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    Sterling Platform Performance

    That's what I'm trying to say. A lot of firms use Sterling's servers for orders and quotes. Other firms do not. This greatly affects your experience.
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    Uptick rule

    Just because there are a lot of shorts doesn't mean prices aren't where they should be. I'd consider the shorts to be smarter money than most of the longs.
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    Sterling Platform Performance

    I think you need to differentiate people who use the Sterling platform to log in to Sterling's servers or their own firm's servers. Most of the frozen order issues are from people logging into Sterling's servers, I think. I have not seen those issues at my firm where we use our own servers.
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    Uptick rule

    Long term investors don't have stop orders sitting in the market. In fact if you were truly an investor you'd know a bargain when you saw one and you'd take advantage of these bouts of insanity rather than complain about them. Mr Market has been crazy lately and made some excellent offers to the...
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    Sterling Platform Performance

    DTN's IQ feed seems decent. I'm still in the experimental stage with it but the API documentation and support has been excellent. Can't beat the price either.
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    Sterling Platform Performance

    Pathetic isn't it? One thing I've discovered that's drastically cut down on the number of crashes is when you shut down your app do the following: 1) for every quote I log the time in a variable, like "LastQuoteTime". 2) when you start shutting down your app first deregister all quotes...
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    Bright trading and any thoughts

    ORCL
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