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Thanks. Reuters does seem to be quite pricey. I'll look into Activ Financial Yes, this is what we've been doing. Latency is the main issue.

What do automated traders use for news feeds? For me personally, latency, comprehensiveness of sources and price are the factors I am most interested in. I don't need anything too fancy. Ideally I'd like a feed that does not require additional vendor software. My broker does not offer any...

Doesn't matter. The Senate isn't really against the bailout, they just don't want to be held responsible for it. They are secretly glad the Treasury is taking care of the problem for them and they can still hold their heads up high when facing their constituents, who are very much against the...

Has anyone ever heard of a broker doing a "joint trading account" with a retail trader where the retail trader gets to use the broker's margin? Allegedly, under such a setup, the broker would have to contribute some capital to the account (10% was advised). I was advised that this was a...

Maverick, this does seem to be the way to go. Can you give more details as to how one goes about this please? Licenses, fees, paperwork, etc? How much margin could really be available? Thanks

Thank you, this seems like a good idea. I will ask my broker about this, but I am skeptical that they offer this type of service. Switching brokers will be difficult for us, so if there are any other ideas, I would like to hear them.

We've been trading a strategy that is very volatile in the amount of buying power it uses. We have optimized it so that we very rarely go over our allotted buying power. There are no other safeguards we can add to our system to prevent this problem. All we can do is to be more cautious to never...

This sucks. We run into data inconsistencies all the time too.. but not exactly like this.