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The great thing about Aus and Asia is that this was just a normal trading weekend; well the monthly futures rolled over on Monday but other than that. The funny thing about this thread is that the truth is here on a number of levels. ET is so weird. Complete xxxxxx's and yet more really...

OK. I'm intelligent. I'm a trader. And I'm a student of the market. So, lets hook up. What is the next step?

There used to be a shortage of drivers but that seems to have been resolved. Biggest issue would be that it does need more ram and disk than 32 bit so I'd avoid it if I had less than 4G of ram.

Adding to that excellent post (I also have W7x64 but my trading systems run on XP Pro SP3, 32bit). The 64 bit os, be in 7, 8 or linux will show its main advantages handing very large amounts of data ... converting AVIs to DVDs and vice versa, image manipulation etc ... and relatively...

I use Nullsoft's Netmon which leaves a little graphical window on my desktop and pings at the frequency I choose. In fact I have two of them, one pinging IB's hong kong server and the other pointing at the east coast server. Lets me see graphically if anything is out of square. <img...

Good topic, thread starter. On autism: parents with children with autism are just people, and desperate for a reason for the autism that doesn't include them (and the faulty genes that they had the bad luck to pass along or some issue like ... god forbid ... plain old randomness.) So...

Actually not. Because I can see you guys from the outside I have a clearer view than you Scat. You see your left as extreme because of where you're looking from. I'm actually a conservative but you guys add fundamentalist religion and a penchant for thick conservative presidents (regan...

Yes, I have traded the Osaka Mini and it is as deep and solid as you think. I've not traded US contracts (because I like my sleep) but you should be able to find the liquidity ... as long as it behaves as you need it to for your strategy to work.

I'm not a fan of any of them. Your presidents manage to make our prime ministers look vaguely sensible. The tragedy is that it seems to create more extremism in the US ... idiots like Roark ... people following the Ayn Rand and such populist but frequently discredited philosophical garbage...

Given the general venality and ignorance of your politicians and the embarrassing stupidity of your last pres ... I am amazed that you guys care at all. On the other hand Atlas Shrugged is holding at number 19 so I shouldn't be too surprised. Given the US got itself into the...

Get Sierra Chart or Ninja to give you a front end to IB. If you need true tick charts then you can get tick data from a number of data vendors described on Sierra's website.

shortbleu, I take your point re HSI but you might still be able to get past it. Something done by others is to look at it as an index where the tick is 5 or 10. If you do that then the commission is 0.2 or 0.1 and slippage is under a tick. If you do that does the structure of the moves...

The keying precision is a bit of a worry too.

You yanks should get a bunch of newbie traders if they can't play poker any more. All good I would think. Beautiful story Chkit ... seems that the snakes bit the aussie and then discovered that aussie snakes are the most venomous in the world. Bad luck boys. :)

He is an egyptian not a sand arab. My limited experience of the cultures suggests that this might not be the case.

Not true. I am discretionary and took a look at it. If all I wanted was point and click it would be fine. But I use the programing interface on Sierra Chart to "enhance" my discretionary trading so it's point and click plus. Which I'd have to pay the for the full version to get.

The varicose vein vs standing is a bit of a myth. Although you can find lots of recommendations not to stand for long periods as it may cause varicose veins it is largely wrong: - v veins are mainly caused by valve failure - they mainly affect women so men are safer anyway (and most traders...

Also, possibly some exchanges don't charge for 2nd usage from same customer. My only issue with 15M delayed would be when I'm running a live and test strategy on the same instrument and get some value from seeing both acting on the same data. I can resolve that by just using two Sierra...

Thanks Def, So the problem is that if we run a live and a sim session simultaneously you are obliged to pay 2 x the data fee to the exchange for that month. I guess I'll use my trading platform's sim for testing then. Interfool, The value of talking about it here is that we can get...

Thanks, Mine was already set to true in pale moon. Not sure if I did that or not. Re montsky's instructions, there was an extra space inserted by the web site in there that might confuse some. It should be: "on the address bar, type in "about:config" search for...