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    Oanda - Add Your SCAM SCREENS Here

    How much do YOU trade? 6E used to be good, but ever since the "crisis" liquidity is crap. Only 10-15 mm on the first 5 lines of the book most of the time, and very often <10 contracts on the best bid/offer. Got a lot of partials, and i'm not a big trader. And that's the EUR, i shudder to think...
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    Aussie Arb

    If it was a technical issue it would have been reversed, most likely. There were a few situations last year where it was easy to take advantage of Oandas practice to quote fridays close throughout the weekend tho. I did it 2 times (with small size) and those didnt get reversed. (situations...
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    Oanda - Add Your SCAM SCREENS Here

    Bugscoe, i think what he is saying is that he got stop-hunted while he didn't even have a trade on. On a demo account.
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    Converting TickZOOM Engine to C++? Support C++,Java,& C#?

    What i don't like is that your project still takes a different direction every week. If this continues, how could i invest work either for personal purposes or contributing something if i don't know whats the situation a week/month from now when your next idea comes up that turns things around...
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    The Forex conundrum

    So who is your fcm/fdm for forex transactions - or is this a secret?
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    The Forex conundrum

    They are registered as IB and CTA with the NFA tho.
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    The Forex conundrum

    Since you are not a registered FCM/FDM - who will hold your clients funds? It just sounds like yet another IB of whomever. Also if your futures rates are anything to go by it wont be a cost-effective way to trade ($10 ??)
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    The Forex conundrum

    So he does not mark-up the spread nor charge a commission. Nice bizniz-model.
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    TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    I don't have a problem with that. If i understand this correctly, should TZ really go closed source, i could still continue using and/or developing the last free version for personal use (or decide to become a customer if it seems favorable). I guess most code contributors will still come out...
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    TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    Hi, for my personal purposes even daily fixings would be good enough - the results should just not be off by a factor of 1.6 or a similar order of magnitude. Maybe a super high frequency model requires more precise conversions. In my opinion the correct calculation of pnl is a core...
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    TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    I agree that hedging the currency exposure when trading in assets denominated in a foreign currency is a reasonable thing to do. Yes, i would prefer what you call a 'dynamic' exchange rate. Suppose you trade a portfolio of american and european stocks. On one hand TZ does a very accurate...
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    TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    Wayne, does TZ 'understand' currencies? This is a topic that most retail-level software does not support at all. Neoticker doesn't do it at all, and OpenQuant does it completely wrong. It effectively means i can't test FX strategies on a portfolio level nor test strategies with securities...
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    TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    The thing that bugs me about OpenQuant (and other vendors) is when something is not supported or utterly broken there is not a thing you can do about it except bitching on the support forum and wait until it gets fixed, which might not happen at all. A good example are the current broken...
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    TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    Anton: what do you charge for the OQ source?
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    TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    Yes i think the basic design is good (splitting the modeling environment, dataserver and execution part). If you compare it to Neoticker, i need a separate license for my desktop for research, one for the machine that runs the systems and one for each optimization node. Plus you need to convince...
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    TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    Here is the link to MB hosting (cant comment on quality of their service): http://www.mbtrading.com/blackBox.asp
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    TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    P.S. you mentioned something about $200-300 for hosting on XP - i understand you are a MB client, they rent out XP servers for $100 (pretty much eliminating latency to their FX ecn too).
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    TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    Hi Wayne, i didn't want to come across negative, it just looks like you change your idea every day (port/don't port to XYZ, open source/not open source, pay/don't pay, etc.). Seeing that, one possibility out of many might just be that you don't do it all, that's why i added the (if) in my...
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    TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    I don't think the n-th debate of language vs. language is really helpful here, all that has been discussed a million times in as many threads through out the internet. Its a not yet released open source project - and apparently the basic design is not finished yet (wayne added streaming just...
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    IDEALPRO: Number of liquidity providers?

    Found within 1 minute of browsing the IB website: http://www.interactivebrokers.co.uk/contract_info/index.php?action=Details&site=GEN&conid=12087792 I guess you can scratch LEH from that list.
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