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Something like sticky notes in windows 7 ? You write on a little note-window, but its still sorta glued to the desktop.

When you open an account, you need to specify your net-worth. If the $3000 is all you have, every firm will turn you down. Not sure about the numbers and the exact legalese, but you can only deposit a certain percentage of your networth. You can fill in fantasy numbers in the account...

Yes i do have slight psychological problems forking over cash to a bunch of russians too.. although there is some sort of bancruptcy protection and regulation in UK for retail customers. gober: i doubt it will get significantly cheaper than IB's $20, unless you trade more.

I have attached a pic. No support for native conditional orders, just basic ordertypes. Accessing whatever information is easy, once you get the hang of it. Download the docs from http://www.tickquest.com/?page_id=716 or get a demo, theres a windows help file coming with it. The object model...

Why would he be marginally better off? Commission at IB for an eur/usd trade equates to 0.52 pip with price at ~1.30 - if im not mistaken. I did look at a Alpari Direct pro (currenex) demo recently. That looked quite competitive. Eur/usd spread is 0.6 to 0.7 mostly, and fees are $15/m...

Both Neo and openquant can fill on quote data (bid/ask top of the book) during simulations.

If you can program in OpenQuant, you can do it in Neo too - its certainly not more complex, and you can use C# too, like in OQ, if you want. If anything, id say Neo is even easier. In Openquant you can react to alot of different events, where as in Neo your code gets called either on every...

There's another recording on the Advantage Seminar page from a guy from Schneider Trading, talking about how they trade spreads (bor vs. schatz among them).

The do offer Integral (both FxInside and PowerTrader which is retail-oriented). But atleast on the retail side they are so uncompetitive ($50/m and they additionally pad the spreads 0.2pip each way) that there is just no point in this.

Upside is excellent market-coverage from a single account (at somewhat competitive rates) ? That makes them pretty unique. Even with institutional platforms like Knight Direct you have to use multiple accounts for multi-asset trading. If you only want access to a particular market you can...

Someone wrote up what they submitted in their forms here: http://forexmagnates.com/fxcm-files-for-an-ipo-valued-at-676-million-pre-money/ If his 676 mln figure is right (i have no clue), this sounds like not much, considering IG Markets has a mktcap of 1.8 bln.

That video card is for games and they make noise like a vacuum-cleaner and suck power like no tomorrow. Id suggest passively cooled cards, either 2x2 or one 4x card (like from PNY). Theres also a cheap 3x card (~$40) from ATI with no fan. They have virtually no 3D performance, but work fine for...

Take a look at Neoticker. You can write your own bar aggregation logic with it and plot whatever bars you want. Does also support IQ. I dont know about EL, but i suspect Neo has a different architecture. You can use a wide choice of programming languages, i.e. c#, c++, delphi, javascript...

Spot will got to 50:1, as per the news today, so probably no.

Whats wrong with (potentially) smaller spreads? Especially when the underlying spot mkt quotes in tenth pips. Even EBS makes a move to half pip now. I can see liquidity providing strategies suffer a bit, but price takers should be better off.

Still not much volume, but it appears the spreads have gotten a bit better. Micro EuroFX is now more like 1 to 2 ticks (used to be 3 to 4). The others are still worse. I think CME should start to quote the whole FX-complex in half-ticks. Would make them more competitive with spot.

Its not new nfa rules, these are from the cftc. I think this together with the last 2 NFA updates of their fx rules makes the US is the best regulated environment for retail clients. What is unfortunately missing is a customer compensation scheme in the case of a firm bankruptcy, like...

I'm wondering, how big are firms like Mirus, Amp and similar? Sometimes it sounds its a few guys manning a few phones + sales force. Has someone been at their office and can tell what this place looks like? Personally im more comfortable with a bigger firm with all relevant exchange...

If you apply rigorous backtesting methods, the results should be the same, no ? For example, if you forward-test your system (either papertrade or live with samll size) for the next month vs. doing a back test in a month for the same time should yield the same outcome? Past perfmormace won't...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLDFQ_IhnDc Pretty much settles C# vs. Java