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As far as how to protect yourself from just such a scenario: Dont use a US based broker if you dont live and are not a citizen of the US because then you fall under its jurisdiction regardless. Trade non us based instruments if you can for the same reason. Separate ownership from...

Is there anybody on this board using xtrader through a non us based broker? Id be interested to know if there was. Im going to switch to a european based broker and let me tell you why. It takes someone with a finely tuned legal mind to understand the pitfalls that dealing with us jurisdiction...

The thing is i remember reading a post where the guy said something like "over the course of last year i crunched all my numbers and my slip was like 0.6 cents". Now obviously that needs to be taken with a grain of salt but thats really what im looking for in my numbers. THAT kind of slippage I...

Actually I just worked out what I need to do. your right in saying Ill need to work harder. Basically I need to check the time and sales for each symbol I want to trade and try and figure out from that where the orders went through and THEN from that model the slip to ascertain what to expect...

O.k. The reality is that you cant use limit orders because theres no way to guarantee a fill. The problem is that if you miss a trade then whats the point of being automated. It completely destroys consistency and continuity. Basically sometimes you get filled, other times the price runs away...

No i wouldnt say it chases so much as it lies in wait until just the right time and then gets long or short. Basically I have buy stops at key levels and when they trigger my stop is implied by the tape action.

Also can anyone who currently trades the Dax tell me what there experiences are with slippage. If I trade a couple contracts only am I going to be able to avoid slip or is this the old story of the alchemist who discover how to turn lead into gold only to find it was all a mirage and hes better...

Ok lets talk about stocks for a bit. Basically i had dreams of building a large scale scalping operation running on a hundred plus symbols etc. So ive been watching the quotes and found to my horror that basically the mission ive been on has turned into a suicide mission. Basically my read on...

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Would that mean that the numbers are doubled for a round trip or is that one way? In other words is that 1 full cent round trip on 200 nyse for example? Im not sure if its as easy a figure to measure as it sounds. It could depend on the broker and the type of order used...

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What that means for society as a whole as well is that its organized in a very duplicitous way. I mean its one thing not to tell someone to do something properly but its just plain in your face wrong to deliberately mislead them to draw the wrong conclusions. And that happens every day on ET. I...

Youve really got to do your own due dilgence on things like this. Most of the posts like this are BS and you need to recognise when the system is trying to manipualte you by providing misleading information. This business is fundamentally crooked. Misleading statements and outright lies are the...

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Id like to ask a quick question to Corey/Lescor if thats OK. Lets say that I want to automate a strategy across 30 stocks using the REDI plus API . How possible is it to do this on one computer and on one screen? Currently with Interactive brokers you have these large panels that are programmed...