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I use a 2.4ghz transmitter. You can send audio and video with it but I use it just for audio. You plug the transmitter into your audio out on your soundcard and then hook up the reciever to and old amp and speakers next to your bed. Then all you computer alerts come through to the bedroom...

Can anyone tell me if RefcpPro features a DOM ladder? I'm assuming it does given TTs claim that Refco are infrigniging their patent. Runningbear

Best solution is two separate machines. Runningbear

It's actually a good thing that refco won't be using X trader. TT are trying to extort them. Better that they stand up and fight there flimsy patent in court. Runningbear

I have set up a Gmail account and I email my chart images and notes to that account every couple of days. I give each day a headline that talks about something interesting I noticed or something new I tried. Using this system, all my charts and notes are automatically dated correctly and I...

Has anyone thought about using Mathematica 5.1 for trading. It seems to me it would be easier to build a functional trading system with Mathematica 5.1 than Matlab. Mathematica 5.1 has a built in database link for MySQL and several other SQL databases. It also has the .NET/link with full...

Maxwell_e, I've had quite a bit of experience with this as I'm running several .efs scripts that calculate off tick data. You won't be able to build anything that calculates off each trade. It simply uses too much CPU. The best I have managed is to loop my scripts every 4 or five seconds...

Guys, The esignal site is tough to find what you need but there knowledgebase section is the best place to start. Information is often structured around responses to customer problems, so the answered tend to be very handy. Check out this link...

For $14 a month, Esignal could open an IB account and compare these quote speed to 40 different contacts via the API. But they don't. Runningbear

mlsignups, Let us know how you get on with that set-up. I'd be interested to hear how you go. Runningbear

If you already have your trading systems coded in Esignal, Tradestation or Amibroker, something like tradebolt or tradebullet is probably going to be the easiest to set up. Runningbear

Hi Guys, How far away is 7.9? I want to start using EFS2. Runningbear

x_diver, Are their any additional costs to using the API over and above the monthly cost of the platform? How much experience have you had as a programmer and did you run into problems progamming to the API or was it all pretty straight forward? I was lead to believe that access to the...

x_diver I'm curious too. Everyone seems to think the X_trader API is a nightmare. Did you run into many problems? Runningbear

AK100, With long positions you have to pay the interest, but with short positions some brokers such as CMCgroup pay you interest. I believe the reason they do this is to balance their exposure becuase more people trade long than short, so for every long position a client takes the CFD...

Do they have an API yet? Runningbear

Sydney is an ideal location for trading the European market. Traded till a bit after midnight then spend the day at the beach! The US market is the graveyard shift during daylight saving. Finish trading early in the morning when the rest of the population are going to work. Sydney has...

You can use heaps of leverage but you can also take small positions so essentially you can match your risk to your account size. 5% margin is great for spreads though where the risk is greatly reduced when you a simultaniously long and short. Obviously maxing out your account on 20 to 1...

You would have lost $70. 7c per share x 1000. You also lose the interest on the position which is about 7.5% pa calculated for the period you hold the position. $4350 x 7.5% is $326.25 per year which is $1.15 per day. That's assuming your interest rate is 7.5%. Obviously if it is...