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There is the chance that you get better rates with a FCM than an IB, however you'd have to do some huge volume to get in there. In most cases it'd be bad business for the FCM to underbid IB's bringing in 100k contracts/month versus a single trader bringing in 1000.

@nitro The reason why IB's often are cheaper than FCM's is that they bring in significant volume. FCM's as well as IB's do want to make money so they charge markup on their hardcost. As IB's sometimes bring in huge volume like FFasttrade they are charged only very little over hard cost and...

Although there are only little 64Bit applications available right now and windows xp/2003 server 64bit are still in beta stage you won't gain too much performance compared to current intel 32bit processors. However, the AMD 64bit is extremely fast in 32bit operations as well and therefore...

Within Whidbey or the newest release of Visual Studio 2005 Commnuity Preview they introduced refactoring which allows you to solve your above mentioned problems quite easily.

then you better tell them where to get the .net SDK ;)

that's exactly why I asked what's the point? Even the very beginning programmer is easily able to do that ;)

lol? what's the point?

Trading is a job. As in every job you will perceive ups and downs. Every job will demand committment, certain rules, etc. You won't ever find a job that is only fun and believing that you will is simply stupid. However, trading will give you more freedom in certain aspects of your life but...

Debian is good but it's more of the rockstable server linux than an up to date desktop linux

I like Gentoo though it's probably not perfect for beginners. Instead of StarOffice use OpenOffice which is the open source pendant. However, I think you won't have much fun switching to linux for these reasons. Good beginner linuxes are Red Hat, SuSe, Mandrake