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How many profitable traders among them?

I'm outdated already. You may check the search results I posted in the thread.

That makes sense. Either you should have the software evaluated/ approved by IB as an accrediated third party product, or you should lead an open source project (that would stimulate other open source projects alike), or IB should initiate an open source project of this kind (one of the best...

My 2 cents: Unless you have used your own automated trading software for lomg time with high degree of reliability, and then you offer it for free. Otherwise letting others to test your software for any potential bugs using other people's money may be not a very good idea, particularly for...

Does anyone know the spread (how many pips normally) for EUR/USD, assuming its rates same as the interbank? TIA.

FYI: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=75080&perpage=6&pagenumber=1

Anyway: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=1350142&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

Whatever any software idea if useful and viable , however the slow development progress is limited by a single programmer s resources, would have a reliable open source project available either sooner or later that is only a matter of time. You may not have enough time or interest to...

Perhaps Free/ Open source with a BSD license would be the way to go. :)

Based on what leverage on average, just roughly? TIA.

As discussed on ET before, there should be many options for reasonably large capital accounts, if API not required.

Does any of the banks provide API trading for retail spot forex?

It seems one of the free trades approaches is to sell calls 50% on rally, afterwards adding/ scaling in next round on (if any) pullback.

Do you think your option strategies and their considerations of playing directional on whether the underlying's price , option's price, and/ or IV would require different adjustments? Here is the book which has another chapter for managing unprofitable position: Trading Index Options...

Bittman has a whole chapter of "Alternatives for managing a profitable position" in his book.

It seems WebTrader platform is comparatively very slow. And a beta version is coming out. Perhaps some active traders may think TWS would be too much more than what they need. Are ther any traders on ET wanting to trade with WebTrader daily? Any suggestions or comments? TIA.

Q "What is the secret of your success in trading?" "Two words: Right decisions." "Then how do you make Right decisions?" "One word: Experience." "So how do you get Experience?" "Two Words!" "What are these two Words, please?" "Wrong decisions." UQ :D

Looks like you're very serious about the proposal. :D

Here is a proposal: 1. JackH should nominate one or more charity organisations of which each shall then open a trading account with say IB. 2. Some of JackH's students may only want to donate some seed capital to these accounts. 3. One or more of JackH's best students will trade the...

How many trades per year you would do/ estimate?