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You know, logically, that doesn't show "the idiocy of demo accounts" at all. A visually flawless photoshop edit could just as easily be done on a real account as on a demo account. No time or skill to do it? Just ask your 12-year-old neighbor kid to do it, for lunch money. :p

It depends both on your broker's minimum margin and on the contract price. At current price levels and using IB's Initial Intraday futures margins, leverage for each of the 6 majors is (rounded to the nearest integer): 6B (GBP) 125:1 6E (EUR) 104:1 6S (CHF) 101:1 6J (JPY) 92:1 6A (AUD)...

CBS shows reruns of many (most?) "60 Minutes" episodes from the past (fall-winter) season, during spring and summer. So, if you don't mind waiting a few months, chances are it'll be rebroadcast. Otherwise, they'll sell you a tape of almost any episode for $30 + shipping. Or you could check...

First time I ever got to watch Jim Cramer the TV host. Wow... so, what, he's like that for an hour every weekday? He's something else. Is his show live or taped, anyway?

Yes, I agree that vendors have had serious, if intermittent, issues with entering orders on C2. That's a known fact. I've communicated with a few of them, followed the message boards, as well as trialed a few systems. Where I would disagree with you is the extent to which that messes up your...

First, I've been watching C2 closely for several months and have to strongly disagree with some of the negative comments above in this thread. (BTW, the best way to communicate with them is through their message board, not email.) True, the present technology for entering trade signals in C2's...

Don't know what you mean by "different name accounts." If you mean "accounts registered to different owners" (whether individuals or entities), forget it. No broker will ever allow that. If you mean something else, then keep in mind that Oanda, among others, allows so-called...

If you are an ex-RefcoFX client -- your property rights violated totalitarian-regime style and/or dismissively ignored for x weeks -- can someone give me one good reason why you wouldn't take your money (from FXCM or wherever it ends up) and run the moment you can?

Early in this journal, Magna (the moderator) said: ____________ Magna Moderator* Registered: May 2001 Posts: 2670 10-19-05 01:27 PM Quote from Magna: Caveat Emptor. True intentions got revealed in relatively short order and I hope no members lost or spent unnecessary...

IB IDEALPro, COESfx and other ECNs, though not all the time. By definition, a given pair spread on an ECN will not be fixed.

Hey, Chood, I think continuing this dialogue (if that's the right word) only encourages the time-wasters, whatever their intentions / motivation might be, and may confuse -- or, worse, inspire -- some newcomers. It's your call. Personally, I've decided to practice my discipline, resist...

Looks like you can get the book directly from his company for $40. Table of contents and excerpts from Ch. 1 and 4 can be found here: http://www.steidlmayer.com/book.htm Contact info under "Support" on their home page. I don't use Market Profile and have not read the book.

MountainTrader, Since you are apparently serious, rather than facetious... hate to disappoint you / bring you down to earth, but both your (explicit and implicit) assumptions and your math are, shall we say, more than slightly off. Cheers.

Should be simple. I believe a vendor is notified whenever someone subscribes to their system and can also get an up-to-date report from C2 at any time. Note that C2 manages all the subscription-related functions with system buyers, on behalf of vendors, in exchange for a 30% cut of the...

The Fortune Group, not Wizard Trading anymore... I stand corrected. Thanks for that link. That's a funny story (well, maybe not for him at the time) about being denied entry into South Africa because of a full US passport! I see that it's something called "Market Wizards Fund of Funds"...

With ~1,000 vendors, how can you tell? More importantly, how could that vendor, or any vendor, possibly request corrections from C2 after the fact? My understanding is that they chose to effectively take a leave from C2 for that period, rather than deal with intermittent platform issues...

I am not sure that we can. One alternative would be to ask the vendor of interest for a more complete track record and analyze it yourself, in Excel. Of course, that approach suffers from at least 2 drawbacks: it's time-consuming and it misses out on the whole notion of independent /...

Oh, he's the company founder who also wrote the software. His bio is in there under "Who are we?" tab.

In the case of Hawk-fx, if you look at the bottom of the "System Description" section, just above the track record, you'll see the following: "Final Note: Due to some technical issues with the C2 site, we did not post any trades from September to early October 2005" The technical issues...

Thank you, Professor. I am afraid that "verbal masturbations" would seem to fit squarely within your demonstrated area of expertise. :p I'm off your journal. My puke bucket is getting full. Good luck.