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This is a "no facts" zone, please keep facts like yours out of this thread.

CQG also has the "arm and a leg" deal where you get random ticks from 10 different markets for $10,000 and <u>you like it</u>

Does anyone know of a data vendor which will provide daily data for "day" sessions? I'm defining day sessions as sessions when side-by-side trading occurs (such as currencies 8:20 - 3 PM eastern us time, 9-230 for energies, etc) but the data is the composite of both the pits and the...

This just sucks, but as others said there's really nothing you can do -- except avoid ARCA. I was involved in a trade/bust on GLOBEX a few years ago in ER2 (old russell 2000 e-mini) where at 4:01 PM the sh*t hit GLOBEX and it spiked up from 637 to 656 in a few seconds, sending my account...

Not true. You can run TWS using TWSStart (from the IB TWS group) and start it at noon Sunday (Eastern US time) and have it stay open until midnight Friday night. Without closing once. TWSStart will intercept the auto-logoff dialog and automatically change the time to an earlier time to...

Look for more info on this on greentradertax.com, they have a lot of (free) articles on how this type of thing works.

Call Robert Green from greencompany.com. You may have to pay him for a consult but explain your situation and he may be able to help you. He is not cheap but he is the best in the tax trader business. The only complaint I've ever heard about him is that he won't go for questionable...

Some options: Free trial with esignal or QCharts and use of QCollector? Tradestation (may require a brokerage account with them) Interactive Brokers: (requires an account with IB to get access to their data): IBCollector or jtwsdump Opentick?

One difference between IB and the crap on wall street -- IB is mainly owned by Petterfly and a few others. They have a large stake in the firm and would be nearly wiped out (at least hurt very badly) if it went under. Thus they have a strong incentive to keep the firm from going under...

Are you nuts?:confused: :confused: :confused:

Maybe the gov't is already buying stocks and that's why we're not down 20% (yet)? :eek:

Tice = Tool. He says this crap once a week. When he's finally right he gets credit? Even during the bear market his fund sucked - the rydex bear funds performed much better. A huge bear market and this tool can't even have his bear fund match the market.....:eek: :eek:

The difference is that IB is saying we don't have any of the crap that is causing problems. Those other companies said we have the problems, but they're under control. Big difference. Unless IB was secretly buying CDOs or whatever I can't see how they'd be exposed to this mess (other than...

This is really primitive. Maybe OK for 1998. Everything about a serious trading operation should be 1st class. True. But it's been working for me since 1978, right after me and Al Gore invented the internet. If you are on your machine you can switch the internet over in seconds or let...

The tradestation CEO was overheard saying: <i><b>We don't need no beer swilling hockey nut hosers, eh?</i></b>

The SEC is now proposing a new mark to market rule where the owner of a security can mark it to market at whatever price they <i>want</i> to be able to sell it. Taxpayers will then be buying these assets at the full asking price plus a 10% reaming fee.

Why don't they just do a reverse split on the Dow? Or just change the calculation to include the absolute value of the current day's move?

A dual WAN router seems wonderful. Failover if one ISP goes down, awesome. Until the router itself goes down, then you lose both connections. Been there, done that -- NOT A GOOD SITUATION. As the previous poster said, buy two routers, two network cards, and hook them both up to your PC...

If you go the Tradestation route look on their forums for "FastFileAppend". If you use IB, IBCollector can download the data and build continuous futures series. Also a warning regarding the eurex data -- I remember hearing the exchange data is not very clean (e.g. bad ticks). I never...

Tradestation has data back to 2001 or so (not sure of the exact dates). IB has data going back a couple of years.