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    Frosty's trading bot goes live part 2

    am I the only one who finds 99% of jj's posts utterly useless? anyways frost. i think this point was brought up before on the first thread, but have you tried different ways of charting good vs bad trades? if you find some temporal grouping of them then it might be a sign that there is room...
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    Everest The Highest trade of the World

    i might be mistaken here, but i have my doubts that you'll be able to get a cell signal on top of everest. i have no idea how they made the record call but i have a feeling they used some tricks, maybe setting up their own temporary cell towers for it. out of all the documentaries iv watched...
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    PureTick Live Trading Room - - FREE open house

    did anyone make / lose money through pt today?
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    Frosty's trading bot goes live part 2

    breaking even while paying commissions+spreads is a good accomplishment. maybe you should should spend some more time to see if you can sharpen your edge a bit more.
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    Made A Mistake Entering # Of Shares @ Schwab! Help!

    i wonder if schwab would be in the money if they agreed to reverse the original trade at the traded price (not the second trade).
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    Frosty's trading bot goes live part 2

    add a class to your bot which calls jimmyjam every trade and asks for his opinion. collect of course.
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    Frosty's trading bot goes live part 2

    Do you not timestamp data changes as they come in and reproduce executions using the stored timestamps?
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    About to Pull the Trigger on IB, somone stop me?

    ya im not saying they should guarantee profit. im just saying as a client incentive to help reduce the pain of negative trades, note just by voiding _their_ chunk of the commission, not the exchange fees etc. as for them going bankrupt due to the model i highly doubt that. if every one of their...
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    About to Pull the Trigger on IB, somone stop me?

    iv always thought of IB's commissions as reasonable. a large chunk of the RT fee comes from exchange / reg / clearing fees, IB's fee ontop of that has a good volume based discount setup which encourages high volume, low return traders to trade through them, and unfortunately discourages low...
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    Toronto Traders Hook Up - June 28

    thanks for organizing it. i learnt a lot.
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    Is IB safe

    Forums >> Direct-Access Brokers >> Retail Firms >> Blackmail >> Is IB Safe :D
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    CME(Globex) Membership + IB

    i think its the eletronic corporate membership that waives the membership fees if you do over 50 contracts/day avg over the month. i still have to read up on it.
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    Is IB safe

    lost money on a trade?
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    QuickFIX

    would you suggest quickfix above any other open source FIX engines? also im wondering if you are trading through IB, if so. do you use IBGateway for market data or still use TWS Api for market data? I was reading about IBGateway and was left wondering if there was any performance boost between...
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    IB's FIX interface

    does anyone know if the FIX Gateway app outperforms TWS? or is the benefit negligible?
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    Toronto Traders Hook Up - June 28

    how long do you guys normally hang around? i might not be able to arrive until 8:00 - 9:00.
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    Programmer(s) Needed

    can you provide more details on the job? location. etc
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    Frosty's trading bot goes live part 2

    im curious. why did you decide to switch from c++ to java?
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    CME Currency Futures Alternatives.

    nothing against them. i'll probably always trade CME. just looking for alternatives.
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    CME Currency Futures Alternatives.

    ah yes i forgot about those. i forgot to mention i need futures that are tradable through IB. IB has NYBOT but only access to a handful of agricultural futures, no currency pairs..
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