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You didn't mention what language you are using. If its a .NET language, for graphing you could have a look this: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/24/new-asp-net-charting-control-lt-asp-chart-runat-quot-server-quot-gt.aspx Microsoft bought it out from Dundas, and it will be...

I don't think its a scam really, just underhanded sales-tactics. You get a demo (if you get it) and then you can decide if you want it. The use of a forum alias to praise the product certainly leaves a bad taste. I got interested because of the access to the source and the use of C# (that's...

cable: I'm not angry with you, infact i share some of your views, i.e. that Oanda provides a reasonably good service and that the tin-foilhatry about marketmakers is sort of ridiculous, most of the time. Same with cc funding (or paypal for that matter). I was under the impression you were...

Damn, what's your average win in pips (and average loss)? Looks like you trade shortterm fluctuations from your blotters. With small targets and wide stops? With the occasional big loss in between? You never post blotters where a stop gets hit (IIRC). Or do you not use stops? I'm not trying...

"Please note, the U.S. Futures Exchange, L.L.C. (“USFE”) has terminated all exchange operations effective December 31, 2008." Finally puts an end to this travesty of an exchange.

Hm, more than i thought. Wonder if every firm did report corrct figures. FXCM is not that far behind the CME fx-contracts in terms of monthly turn-over (if my quick and dirty calculation is correct - based on APR09 figures). Intuitively i would have thought the CME is miles ahead from the...

You could take a look at Neoticker. Its got its caveats, like every other software, but i came to the conclusion its the best for me, out of the non-institutional products. You can use any COM-compliant language with it, including C# of course (that's what i use too). What i am doing is...

cstfx: You can still do that as far as i know (london branch). Advantage starts with $18/mm - no fixed minimum, but obviously the account must be adequately funded (margins are 1:20 o/n and 1:40 intraday).

HotspotFXi is an ECN platform. In order to access it, you need an account with a broker that has access. Hotspot themselves do also offer broker services. Here is a list: http://www.hotspotfxi.com/clientBanks/pfis.jsp You can add Advantage Futures to this list (they offer even cheaper...

The OP was talking about what eSignal calls market-depth on their F/X data, that is different (and quite a misnomer) than what everyone else calls market-depth. On eSignal you can use the T&S window for their composite F/X data and it would display all new quotes by individual data-contributor...

This sums it up pretty good: http://www.efalken.com/papers/Taleb2.html

You could try Advantage Futures, they can provide access to EBS and also futures through TT, but i don't know if they can do EBS through TT. Guessing a phone call can clarify.

Its gonna be like on Oanda or MBTrading. There are stop/limit and stop-limit orders on futures and stock markets - and these markets trade on a fifo-basis since the beginning. Give it a rest.

You cant really go wrong with either firm in my opinion. I have been a long term Hotspot(and oanda) client, up until they went downhill in the last quarter of last year (pretty much the same thing like IB up until then). Fills between Oanda and HS were much the same, maybe 1 pip here and...

Anyone with half a clue about the market could have told you (and did so by the way) that these micro contracts wont take off. There is little incentive for anyone to make markets for a few pennies in profits, and little incentive for traders to trade them if they are only remotely well capitalized.

Well its all very moot from a practical standpoint, but anyways: Some derivatives, like futures, are actually really zeros-sum games, in the sense, if you close all trades and cancel all orders - every thing will exactly net out to zero. Currencies are a cash instrument, like stocks (or...

If you are up for a laugh, check out the earlier years here: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dukascopy.com/ Especially the "incontrovertible proof" of the Duka-Theory is most lol. When i spoke to them ~2 years ago, i found out that they aren't very good with English. Also, they...

You don't even need to use an optimizer to get there. If you have 'manually' developed a system with good test results, its still possible that it is a curve-fitted result by chance (that it is the same outcome than with using a lot of optimization cases). If you do a lot of research 'manually'...

Of course there are applications available to retail where you can code your own position sizing methods(including scale in/out, pyramiding, mgale or what have you). Smartquant, Neoticker, and i'm sure quite a few others. You are pretty much only limited by your trading and coding skills.

No, IQFeed is one of the cheaper providers. Another possibility might be esignal. If you use 3rd party software like sierra, its possible to subscribe for "data only". You wont be able to launch the esignal charting application, but sierra will be able to connect. Its $50 + exchange fees...