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the term fair value gets used in different guises - cnbc use it to just give a guide to people that the futures are up or down in the premarket relative to the prior cash close ultimatly it has no real meaning as it could swing either way - its just futures traders - trying to get ahead of...

FX-Trader trading eminis manually - you would have to be really unlucky to not be pretty sure of your position fills are so quick, that the chance of you opening or closing a position - just as the platform goes wrong - would be a million to one chance ( but i bet it happens to me next...

so the two trading platforms are fungible - if with the same clearer?

craig, so are you saying that if the platform goes down, even if you dont guarantee to indemnify the losses - ( which as it happens is I think is a reasonable request - if its the platforms fault ) - you are able to always get someone out of a trade?

craig i am not saying IB is great at all - i was just responding to your point if your system was down - and it was possible to get hold of you quickly - are you able to get someone out of the trade? and as it happens - why should a customer pay for your or IB's technical problems?

craig, technical problems are obviously a real pain when you lose money and certainly an important consideration in light of your point, will you indemnify your accounts against any loss due to technical problems?

depth of market is absolutly a priority for arbitrage, but apart from that - i have not been able to correlate anything on it to forcasting a market move due to strength or weakness in the volumes has anyone?

if you have your bars - set to 60min and the end of the market - set to 16:00 - your last bar - should just contain the last 30 mins -but the day close - may of course be different but what do u want to use the last 60 min bar for? By then you should have made your bucks and be out on the...

Make sure that the signals you use are the ones everyone else uses - thats what moves markets - no secret formula - when the majority of people are working off the same signal - the market takes off - so be careful of anything to theoretical - keep it simple - choosing off the wall SMAs to fit...

limbo why do u think people are afraid to give out their wining systems or methodolgy in case it then stops to work? i dont think thats the case at all - although broadcasting a currently working arbitrage opportunity would probably kill it - i think telling someone your technique in...

i definetly get that the point of these forums is to help each other out - but i think anyone who just asks "how do i make money from trading xyz?" - needs to be told that there is no way that anyone is going to answer that question, or even be able to on a forum they may get "help" from...

Volume is important - but so are a lot of other signals - so the question is whether it is less or more important than the other signals that cause a trade to be taken - certainly for me - it comes way down the list # you dont need volume to see if a market is strong or week, trending or...

Maybe the volume thing made sense during the bull market, and it was self reinforcing, so when you had a postive volume signal, with a postive market, etc, because people all saw the same signal, they all jumped in and voila! - volume as a key indicator! bit different perhaps - nowadays

i agree with u over volume - looked at it once a long time ago - couldn't see the point - and never looked again - but i keep hearing how key volume is volume seems to me to be a lagging indicator - maybe even contrarian - since by logic a reversal must start with low volume - and by the...

the SPY pretty much replicates the futures contracts - so it does not act like a normal stock - so if u cant make money at stocks - you can forget about making money on the SPY the easy way to learn is to get a magic wand - but i hear that the guarantees on those things are not up to much...

def do u know if it is all market data which is now free from the CBOT, or just emins? and or does it cover any options contracts? in IB's data supply page - it is still showing charges for data

Wilzo hi, do you know if their emini feed is a chart data feed or a globex feed - i am assuming in the case of eminis - the feed for the trading platform part of tradestation is globex and chart data for the charts?

have you considered - what happens if you lose your data feed for the charting - you won't have a double check - i wonder if a few nervous occasions like that will cost a lot more than the fees you pay - but i guess as u r paying a lot more than retail - you have already figured that out - and...

the dow has a bit of a fight on to day so if you trade it - do u get out without slippage-- or is the spread 5, but most traders cost u 10 or ? have u got a depth of market on it?

thank you