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For those who trade in pennies, do you mind saying if you use market or limit orders? When I worked at Titletrading, I used market orders on SSO using BATS. I only paid one penny spreads (most of the time, but that was months ago lol). Do you try to buy on the bid and sell at the ask?

I had mentioned Mirus before but I just checked last night and noticed they only offer GFT Forex now.

There are broker reviews on Forexpeacearmy dot com. I think some people forgot MB Trading as well. I have a mini lot account with GFT Forex and find them OK even though I did complain a little about an odd fill a while ago. I think Forex.com has the many options like Metatrader4 and eSignal...

I know this sounds wacky, but have you tried Forex? If you google "free forex charts", you'll find a site with FXTrek and ChartingStation on it. I think those are pretty good to get an idea how Forex moves. And it's also 24 hours a day so you don't need to worry about trading gaps. You may...

In what way? How do you think his personality influences his trading style? What weakness do you see in his strategy?

Notice he was doing trades by phone instead of a computer. LOL

Are you saying you want to record? There is a program called Camtasia that allows you to record what is on your screen. Are you looking for demo accounts? I believe thinkorswim has demo accounts.

ROFLMAO! Joke of the day. :) Yeah, after quitting the financial markets several times, I took the last year and a half to plunge more seriously into the books and am now just starting to figure it out.

Well, thanks for the replies. :)

I worked with a guy once in a prop firm who mentioned he had worked in a backoffice job in a brokerage firm. What tasks are done in a backoffice job?

Yeah, when I'm "large" enough to trade through an ECN, that's what I'll do. There's no way this makes any sense.

Nevermind. I tempoarily thought I had a "superior" trading platform through GFT Forex until I saw not only a couple of situations where the platform was asking me to confirm whether I wanted to enter an order or not. Today, it flat out did not allow me to rapidly exit a position. It ended up...

I don't think the poster who tried to point out the flaws in my backtesting really understood what I did. But, I don't want to take the time to debate it. In any case, the previous post reminds me of the ads I saw for TDAmeritrade bragging that you could use their software to do backtesting as...

I backtested a moving average crossover system that seemed to make money on paper. When I traded it with small amounts of money, I had something like 13 or 14 consecutive losses at one point. What were the problems I saw? First, when entering on a moving average crossover, you end up getting...

If you really believe in backtesting and won't believe me that testing ideas with streaming prices is better, I suggest you consider testing ideas in real time as well just to see. You should see after a while what the limitations of backtesting are.

Oliver Velez says at one point, you can start to trade without any indicators. So, sometimes I look at charts without any indictors to practice seeing charts without any indicators. (Even though I don't trade without indicators for now.) What I find funny is, after spending months looking at...

Is there a way that any currency pair with the JPY will NOT be somewhat volatile?

Well, I have an account with GFT Forex. I'm not sure what time I'd look for for futures since I haven't seen what the moves are like. You know, for those who are wondering about the fact that I said I still was not profitable, I'm still adapting myself to new methods that I developed. Every...

Does anyone here know of a good free site for futures? For me, the best way of seeing what I'd want to trade is with charts. But, I still don't like the overnight trading gaps in the equities markets.

I don't want to sound paranoid, but are you saying 20,000 shares of an equity of a 20,000 contracts of a futures contract?