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It's best not to day trade futures. It is not the most profitable thing to do. Better to swing trade. You have to ask why you are trading in the first place. If it is to make money, then you have to create a goal and stick to it.

This is a multi-faceted question, that I am going to try and breakdown. 1. Easier to position trade, as opposed to scalping or day trading. 2. Better to trade the futures as opposed to daily cash. 3. Better to trade long dated futures as opposed to near term ones (i.e. if you are...

The platforms come with a data feed, in the form of tick data, that is supported by your broker. So I am under the impression that your broker will decide on the feed, and I guess that your software will convert the data into charts. So, if I assume correctly, you want to create your own...

Are you on a platform already? Does your software need a data feed? To explain Elephant prints, need to know how many contracts you are trading on average /day or /month?

Shortest I've seen is 30 seconds. But that is immaterial if your broker does not support the system. The choice is what the broker gives you. Anyway, if I'm not misunderstood, for example, ...consider having a 5min moving ave, and then a 4min, and 6min, with constant time bars, the...

So it may be better just to use the dome to input trades, and to have an extra subscription for streaming real time data from the above.

http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=66544&perpage=6&pagenumber=1 *nix-heads or *nux-heads. With reference to the OS by Red Hat, Linux/Unix. As opposed to Microsoft MS, OS's such as XP pro, Vista.

Forgive me if I am also ignorant and far from wrong, but what does, Vista being a 64 bit processor system, mean, if anything? Is Mac a 32 bit? Will there be incompatabilities? Is the Mac life limited to the Vista release?

So as to save time with quotes, when posting here, just click quote on the bottom right, then type underneath. Also if you want to show someone the screen you are looking at (e.g. turn it into a picture, then e-mail) i.e. screen dump, ...then get the window you want on the screen, press...

Probably because more empty heads turn their frustration towards Bill Gates, once they hear about Steve Jobs, then I presume Mac will be in a worse situation. So far all the malware has been directed to MS, would *nix be able to hold up to the same descent?

No it is not a joke. It is good for practise, but whether or not it will be helpful when you come to trade for real is another ball game.

Any one into fox hunting?:D Was Erin trying to prove that the Earth was spherical, last oct/nov?

Depends on your broker. They will tell you which one to use.

http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64688&perpage=6&pagenumber=80 I see you contradict yourself on a different thread?

If you had real time streaming data, with a 5minute interval, it would automatically update on a tick basis e.g. E-signal, or Bloomberg.

It would boil down to looking at a tick chart, or the lowest time interval, with the last 5 (or whatever roll time you wanted) being grouped/bunched together as one bar. This would distort the moving averages and any other indicators i.e. how to calculate the moving average for the last (most...

Ask steve46 about that 19 tick spike reversal that I think he might have been saying (sorry in advance if mis quoted).

Vista will work on a 64 bit processor, rendering Mac useless.

It's because they happened to be clever about their trading. It's called trading skill, or money management, or profit ergonomics (scientific study of the efficiency of workers in their working environment). A chapter that most traders don't get to, or, bother about.:cool: