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Easy man. What broker do you go through that is $.50 a side in commissions? I'm assuming that's not including exchange fees? Also, I take it you use multicharts then? Are you happy with the platform?

Where does everyone get their Nina Futures Trading Demo, is it from Zen-Fire? Also, does anyone use zen-fire as their broker? If I like the ninja platform I might use them as a broker. That's the one that keeps popping up when I'm googling.

Also, it seems like everyone on this forum is a big fan of ninjatrader for charting, so I'm looking into that. Does the ninja trader platform have a monthly fee or is it included with whichever broker you end up going with? The firetip trading/charting platform I use is free and then I...

I was originally looking into using a program called FireTip that would work on all my mac computers for futures trading. One of the brokers I could use (directfutures) is saying it would be $4.60 roundtrip including exchange fees which I originally thought was a good deal, but I'm starting to...

The orders fill faster on a downloaded platform compared to a web trader? I would think the difference would be so small that it would be unoticeable.

Does your simulator fill your orders at the bid and ask price or at the last quoted price? I was practicing very short term and doing great until I realized that my fills were all at last price instead of the bid or ask.

Hi everyone, I'm making the switch to eminis from stocks. I've used worden for stock charts for a number of years. I'm looking for something easy to use like worden that allows for a lot of customization and a good low price. Any ideas? The trading platform I use has charts but they are...

I was also wondering about stops. I would assume all stop orders are triggered by the bid/ask prices and not the last price, is this correct? I heard stocks adopted this within the last few years so it makes sense that futures would trade the same way. For instance if I have a long...

I'm sorry, it's a little hard to understand your reply. Are you saying that if I have a limit order to sell at 1313.25 and the current quote is: LAST 1313.25 BID 1313.00 ASK 1313.25 Then my sell order of 1313.25 would fill sometimes? If so, then the demo is working more like the...

Alright, thanks.

So just for the record, when you buy at bid or sell at ask, your orders never get filled unless it goes a tick above or below your asking price?

I see now that if I buy at 1313.00 for instance, the price had to go to a last price of 1312.75 with a bid of 1312.75 and ask of 1313.00. To sell at breakeven last price would have to go to 1313.25 to get a bid of 1313.00 and ask of 1313.25. So essentially price has to move 2 ticks in your...

Between not getting some orders even filled, and a tick difference on sells, buys, and breakevens I think it will make a substantial difference on my bottom line. I'm starting to realize that the demo doesn't really show what it's going to be like at all unless you're trading intermediate term...

In other words, could anybody make a lot of money trading the ES if they got filled at the last price instead of the bid/ask? I'm hoping I don't have a wake up call when the bid/ask spread kicks in with real cash. As always thanks for any replies!

I'm currently practicing every day with my futures demo platform since making the move from stocks. I'm doing much better than I thought I would but the fills are always at the last price instead of the bid or ask. This makes it very difficult to tell how my trades would do because I put...

I'm very confused. I don't know much about HFT as I'm just a retail trader but this thread seemed interesting so I thought I would give it a read. WinstonTJ was winning the debate in my opinion until I saw his previous posts that seemed to completely contradict what he is saying now...

Gotchya. Thanks.

I just read your post again and I might have misunderstood. Does that mean that if you put in a buy at asking price or sell at bid price that it doesn't usually fill until it goes one tick lower or higher with the ES? That would bother me a lot if that's the way it goes. For instance...

Thanks, that's the info I was looking for. That is what I assumed but I've never traded futures before and I know eminis are really liquid so I thought it might happen once in a while.

I think I phrased it wrong. example: last price 1313.25 bid 1313.00 ask 1313.25 If I want to go short with a limit order at 1313.25 the demo will fill my order even though I'm not selling at the bid. It fills at the last price. Does this happen with e-minis in real time at all, or...