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Thanks LeeD. Your reply is very helpful. -gariki

"For system traders it is a little different, slippage in a short term active system can make or break a system. The edge is tiny...." So one thing you can do (which i did for my systems and ended choosing limit vs market for some of my systems) is to actually test it out. Put in code in your...

hello all, i am currently trading my own money and am growing well but i have been advised by an acquaintance that i am better off doing my stuff within an LLC; so that there is a chance of attracting more money and growing faster; because then i can have an audited track record. I kept...

Only way to get rebates AFAIK is to provide liquidity. Meaning strictly limit orders and yes you might not get filled sometimes. -gariki

if you have to take an order (based on say a system signal or something) then the best way is to put in a limit order - for long for example: a. limit at bid if you can risk waiting for it to get filled b. limit at offer if you want to get in immediately now which of these is better...

i did a quick check on TNA and i still have a 4cent ave profit but that thing trades with a 4-5-6cent spread. Useless. Infact trading the russell is much better than the comparison between SPY and ES. Because with high vol my system has slightly better averages. In this case for the same time...

i have done exactly this comparison more than a handful of times over the past couple of years and in general end up sticking to ES (mostly for actually another reason also; cost of carry). Lets see.. for one of my strategy its got an average ES profit of 0.41ticks which translates to 4cents...

thanks. that will not be necessary. if you know what you are doing, great. just thought would offer my 2cents as i thought the thread was genuine. all the best!

300 shares on a 30k account sounds too aggressive; even with a 2x leverage say you have 60k buying power to carry overnight, with say roughly 30$ stock price you will need about 4500$ per stock; which means on average you will not be able to carry about more than 13-16instruments at any given...

hey Rol. nice thread; i have read only cursorily but its good to read somewhat real looking stuff on ET. A few questions (not sure if you have already answered;pointer would be fine); as i just want to do compare against a few strategies i trade just for fun. btw i use AB too; havent...

it can as well go back to its 10-12 range at it has been pre-crash. For myself i am short to the tune of about 70 es deltas and heavily short vol (my platform shows about 1500 short vega). Not that i think it will go down but if it does my deltas will save me; short vol will save me if we melt...

Then again; there is this post by daedalus that has some concrete data in favor of futures. http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/24/forex-vs-currency-futures-system-question-7473-2.html

so is really trading currency futures better than trading forex from a friction standpoint? This article below actually points that the opposite is true. http://www.traderslog.com/forex-futures/

dude.. markets are closed today :)

Now i have a golden rule before i pay a single buck to learn from somebody who pretends to know something about the markets. Show me an audited tax record; if you dont make money trading - i dont give a damn how good you can talk; its all a sheer. Guess what; that eliminates 100% of all the...

So i am trying to decide between IB, Oanda and MBtrading. For EUR/USD, the spreads as of now (8:04 PST on 4/20) seem to be: Oanda - 1.2 IB - 0.5 MBT - 0.8 Is Oanda still the best? why? I have never traded forex before; so just trying to understand.

no replies? jeez. i thought i will get a lot of useless info that i will have to sift through.

thinkorswim is the one i use. Some negatives when it comes to futures trading but very good for options.

I trade futures extensively; almostly exclusively /ES but am looking into expanding into forex. Can someone compare forex vs futures from these perspectives. 1. How is liquidity for forex compared to ES? 2. Say i pick the two or just one most liquid forex pair; is it comparable to ES from...

stock777: curious how bill duryea of ioamt.com got on the list. Not saying I have an opinion either way. I recommended him on the roll :D . I have been in his room for more than a handful of months to try to learn but having recorded sessions trying to learn the craft; i learnt that in...