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vulture the problems that are being mentioned are to do with the use of retail electronic trading platforms system integration - and at anyone time - one or more specific broker/clearers will have more problems than the others i suspect IB gets hit with more negative comments - because...

cigar girl I personally could never work with esignal charts - but if it works for you - thats all that matters

fx trader must be earlier somewhere - no idea where why - do u want to light her cigar?

tripack and i have just realised how painful this could be for me - because on certain trading days i will add to a winning position, effectively taking off the table my winnings and placing it on the next move - on the basis if i lose, i am only giving back what i made and will get out quick...

tripack ok, i absolutely get that, but i guess to have the problem, you have to be either in a trade, or have just taken a trade at the moment the system goes wrong i guess the first depends how much you trade and you have to be really unlucky to have the second happen to you - but none...

tripack ok, now i see why everyone is so neurotic about it so, another broker is the only option to protect yourself

thecigargirl what charting do you use with esignal

re this IB and back up - if IB does go down and it is not a Globex problem - wht does happen? - if you phone them - can you not get thrugh to them to close the postiion - they say they do not charge if it is their system which is down

metoox not necessarily - as u have pointed out yourself - and i am following up on it

all data is late - and a lot later than most realise - for reasons i wont go into on here - but since most are using the late data - in a wacky sort of way - it is a levelish playing field

craig i am not too sure what the windows point was about either but i do believe that locals would be connected directly and not by the internet - and i also think they would be using GL or Trading Technologies - but of course they may be using Pats - but if they had direct lines - i am...

it would be great for someone like myself with an interest in the prop firms mentioned in this post - to just have a list of them - and a short and unbiased summary of their business models i believe that anyone who offers someone the chance to make money is doing that person a favour, but if...

tymjr you are rude - but that explanation, i guess means that you do not know of a better chart/data combination that would make you move from CQG now if my opinion of what you have said is wrong - feel free not to reply anyone its about the range and reliability of data - and the...

there are times when retail can arb, but they arn't often - but it is possible at extreme sell offs in the futures

craig, the locals must have direct connections, and probably use a high end trading platform and you can be pretty sure they are not gettting screwed around - RCG have a whole load of different entry points even if they are on the same servers - i bet they enter the chain later what do...

use the bloomberg help

the buddhist teach that ones outside enviroment is a reflection of ones inner self. who knows ?? Question, Is that why buddists sit on top of mountains, nothing on the outside, nothing...............

i have done mess and i have done tidy - tidy is better - Metooxx - all you need do all day is count your money all day, as the computers pull it in for you - if you had to think clearly, tidy is way better!

same comment i made else where - they are not cheap - thats what you pay when you hit real volumes and you hit these volumes because each trade is much cheaper - catch 22 trading low volume is expensive!

its not cheap - thats the level of fee you pay when you start hitting big volume tradeing small volume is expensive!