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Assuming you want to get started without learning any programming language, NinjaTrader is a good option. You can create a good range of trading systems by simply going through a "wizard". I would be cautious about using this platform for automated trading (as there are some serious limitations)...

empirical, one of the platforms you need to add to the list is NeoTicker. It has both "leased" and "purchased" options. It is one of the few platforms where you can backtest a trading strategy on minute data (for speed) and then test it on proper tick data to see if it still works/improves/...

Hi DarkTrades, DHOHHI is nitpicking on you "having experience". Naturally, he assumes that if you have been daytrading stack then either: 1) You did it for a prop firm... and then you wouln't be opening this thread; or 2) You have been trading with a $25k+ account and lost enough money so...

I presume you refer to 6E contract on GLOBEX. In this case your questsion shouldn't be in the Eurex section of the forum... Anyway, transaction costs are lower with the futures; the tick in cash Euro with IB is half-pip while it is 1 pip in futures. If you execute only market orders you will...

Exactly! The rule of thumb is: If the device doesn't appear on the list accessed via "safely remove hardware" icon, the device can be safely connected and disconnected at any time. Mice and keyboards can normally be disconnected arbitrarily. Storage devices like USB flash sticks and...

I have been using ButtonTrader for a while and it's very good at overcoming shortcomings of TWS for short-term traders. The best part is the developers closely follow (quite volatile) changes in TWS API and keep the platform compatible. However, I believe ButtonTrader only supporst futures...

As far as I am aware, IB don't provide paper-trading accounts to anyone who doesn't have a funded account with them. So, as long as I am a ware, if someone is running TWS and it is not a demo account. they have to have a funded account with IB. To go a step further, IB front-end TWS is a GUI...

Charles Ponzi is far more famous for "Ponzi scheme" than for his speculation in real estate. So, this is naturally effective publicity.

Besides different ways data vendor smay construct a "continuous" contract, it's possible some of teh series you see are from pit trading while others are from electronic trading. Although the actual prices during the same time of the day are extremely close, trading hours may be different.

From http://www.drinkaware.co.uk/features/health/guide-to-alcohol-units-and-measures:

Some trade union leaders are good at establishing political ties (think John Precott); some are less so.

For the waiver to be enacted eSignal requires that the user places at least one trade via eSignal's own platform. Perhaps, this way they can verifay that a trade is placed in a real (and not paper trading or demo) account. On the other hand, IQ Feed offers the CME fee waiver to users of 3rd...

The figures mean in the other 2 years (out of 4 the fund was around) the return was in low single per cent, which is far from spectacular. Something like year 1: 2% year 2: 50% year 3: 2% year 4: -3%

With 37 votes Telvent DTN IQfeed CME data fee waiver request is currently the second most voted for suggestion on IB Feature Poll.

Guy Hands had in mind treating music industry like any enterprise with slimming margins: institute heavy cost-cutting. His business is buying poorly run companies, replacing management, and extracting underlying value. Naturally, this didn't bode well pop stars who expected indivisual treatment...

Well, with railway network there is naturally no compettion because it's too expensive to run 2 competing railways on the same route. So, the competition is only from buses and airplains. You can argue that 2 railway companies can run trains in the same direction on the same rails and compete...

This didn't work for the train network. Prices went massively up, but delays became much more frequesnt and safety record deteriorated.

So that people who don't want to board a crowded train and stay on the platform are pushed inside by the staff.

This just made my day. Viva proven technology. 3D eye candy doesn't make money in trading. (It does make money in computer games and increasingly in movies.)

You are talking of total employment, not non-farm payrolls, right? Seasonal jobs make a large difference.