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    Have some trade ideas and looking for extensible trading platform?

    Thanks so much for the informative guidance. Sorry I didn't make myself clearer. I am actually in favor of easy language type of scripting. The only thing is that I want to be able to extend if (1) I want to speed things up; (2) I want to create my own faster or more complicated signal...
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    Any tips about day trading using IB?

    Any way of making it fast? I feel entering an order and submit it is so slow on my IB... how to make it super fast? Any tips? Thanks !
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    Have some trade ideas and looking for extensible trading platform?

    I don't want C# specificly, I am okay with C, C++, Java, etc. That way I don't have to learn a new special-purposed script language... You think TraderStudio (or which other one?) is the next best than TS, since TS doesn't have portfolio level backtesting?
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    Have some trade ideas and looking for extensible trading platform?

    Okay, then I shouldn't have opened TS. What's the next best that I should definitely take a look? It's impossible to try them out (I mean try them all with meaningful comparisons, because each one of them has a language that I have to learn well). The wealth-lab's strength is that it's C#.
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    Have some trade ideas and looking for extensible trading platform?

    Why is testing a portfolio so important? you just have to run multiple times for single instrument, am I right?
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    What traders' magazine do you guys subscribe?

    Hi all, Anybody reads magazines/papers to enhance their trading? Any recommendations? Thanks a lot!
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    Have some trade ideas and looking for extensible trading platform?

    So coming back to our original question: TradeStation is the best? Or other software are better?
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    Urgent! How to set up trailing stop order in IB?

    What do you mean by "candles"? Any detailed examples? Thanks a lot!
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    please recommend good books for futures trading and day trading?

    Thanks a lot! Where do I find good mentoring program?
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    please recommend good books for futures trading and day trading?

    Thanks a lot folks. I should mention that I have traded stocks based on fundamentals and options for some time already. So I am not a pure new trader... Now I want to expand into futures trading and learn from you! Thank you!
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    please recommend good books for futures trading and day trading?

    Also, if I want to test some strategies, for execution, of course I am using IB, but for strategy exploration and backtesting (trading futures), which software is the best? Thanks!
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    please recommend good books for futures trading and day trading?

    Hi all, I am a newbie to futures trading. Could you please give me some pointers about how to become a successful futures trader and how to become a successful day-trader? Thanks a lot!
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    Have some trade ideas and looking for extensible trading platform?

    Yep, I just find it out. How about subscription to the standalone version?
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    Have some trade ideas and looking for extensible trading platform?

    How is Wealth-Lab? Seems nobody mentions about Wealth-Lab?
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    Where to find global shipment numbers?

    Where are these data? And these are not international trade data...
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    Where to find global shipment numbers?

    Hi folks, I remembered some economists quoted the number of global shipment of goods fall sharply in Dec. 2008. I was wondering what was the latest change? I am looking for the global shipment of goods numbers from one country to another, and from one region to other regions, etc. For...
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    Have some trade ideas and looking for extensible trading platform?

    Yep, it's very limited. http://www.tradestation.com/strategy_testing/hist_market_data.shtm#OptionsData
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