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a market maker bot / virtual ATM that makes me 1 tick a day on the ES regardless the number of contracts i trade, everyday, forever.

I agree with Mr. Consistent. You must be prepared for strange scenarios like power outages, internet outages, order/trading server problems.

It does sort of look like things are getting noisier. That noise could turn March's big up move back into a down move.

Yeah I don't know about "conservative daytrader" but I do agree that being partly or fully in cash isn't necessarily such a bad idea right now. Things are very crazy.

Nope no joke. Didn't really know much about him. I don't read many industry publications.

I've always heard people refer to Crabel when discussing aggressive futures day trading systems/patterns. I've never really looked into Crabel but would be interested in others experience with Crabel. Oh, it looks like he runs money now. Interesting! I guess it has been a long time since he...

Tradestation is great as a testing platform if you are a programatic trader, but their unrelentless inepititude as a company and the unreliability of their platform has finally caused me to start looking elsewhere. As of 5/1/09 they are retiring their ONLY WORKING STABLE RELEASE of their...

I would say, yeah it's about $250 a month for data and minimum trading fees. They charge you 100 bucks if you don't trade at all. You have to do 10 round turns a month to avoid that platform fee.

Tradestation as of Friday 5/1/09 will no longer have a stable platform to auto-trade on, which is particularly upsetting to many of its long-term clients. They are pulling their oldest release to make supporting their product easier but in the process losing clients. They potentially have a...

I have tradestation, IB, and zenfire-powered Mirus Futures accounts. From my experience with Mirus, they have been very good. I've actually been to their office in Chicago and all the brokers and operators there are real stand-up people. You can tell they have invested a lot in the...