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Activetick supports Linux

If you need streaming market data - check out IQfeed or Activetick.

There are many professional grade APIs but you are licensing technology for a hefty monthly fee and usually have to find your own introducing broker. I use GTP from singularity tech and it is very good. Also maybe look at just2trade or lowtrades.

MBT Web platform is garbage (I understand it is beta though) MBT Desktop is decent but still seen a lot of weird things. Like a sell stop not executing until 10:23 even though the stock was trading below the stop all morning since 9:30. That can be bad.

A prop firm is YOUR money on the line. Yes, can trade with 50k or 100k but the profit or loss is in your pocket. Anyone who has 100k will probably be too smart to give it to you, and you are too "green" to understand why. So your "solutions" are Find someone dumb Or go the prop route I...

I am with AutomatedVPS located in Secaucus and have 5ms ping to trade in NY. Also I had one with Interserver for a couple months, they seemed good too. Amazon EC2 is in VA and was 30ms. I have a post about it here...

He's probably not doing true HFT. But with medium-high frequency doing hundreds of trades / day - some of the randomness cancels out and you can have high % profitable days and shorter periods of drawdown. Still pretty cool stuff. But like anything else, it is very hard to find an edge in...

When do you think prices will peak? When will they start coming down?

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That is a pretty typical deal for someone doing lower to moderate volume or who is just starting out. Not bad at all. If you start doing 100k shares/day and more, you can probably negotiate something lower. If you build a good track record, there are firms that will give you huge buying...

On the other hand, Xspurt did a pretty good job The Dow nailed that trendline. The S&P was a little short.

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Samples come with the SDK but they would probably give you some free if you asked. But anyway, in Java it is really easy. Launching the client & login is automatic with one function call, you open a socket to a local port, subscribe tickers, and then it is just parsing the text messages from...

Maybe look into investing a portion in peer-to-peer lending. prosper.com, lendingclub.com, etc.

stock777 stop whining. You can always trade in a market devoid of computer trading. Like Mongolia. Enjoy the spreads.

Are you behind a proxy or a network that might be firewalled ..... like at work?

I never tried it, but maybe marketcetera?

Sounds like a good deal. So your investment pays for itself in 2-3 years ....

Take a look at tradelink, JSystemTrader, marketCetera, tickzoom etc. Why spend a year or more building a platform when you could be building strategies.

5:12 no news .... geez how long does it take to get a bailout these days?