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So in this case would we be on the loonie and peso, or would forex traders be wheeling and dealing in the newly formed TEX/EUR cross?

I don't recall if others do this, but one thing I like about TOS is that they don't charge a commission to close out a short option position that is <= $0.05. Very useful if you write a lot of options and don't want to watch the paint dry while you wait for those last few pennies to expire.

$2.95 seems high on TOS. I currently pay $1.25/contract and I'm by no means a high roller and don't do hundreds of contracts a month. I did open my account several years ago, so maybe things have changed since they got picked up by TDA. They won't match IBs price, but you might at least ask and...

If you can jump in to the workforce, I'd do it. I think an MBA looks better once you've got some experience under your belt. Then your resume looks more like "guy who has spent some time in the trenches and has some advanced learning" as opposed to "kid who has no clue about the real world and...

www.419eater.com for a bit of "turn-about is fair play"

Ninjatrader allows you to do market replay on tick data for free on certain contracts and ES happens to be one of them. You can download their app and use it for free until you need to place live orders.

ThinkorSwim allows you to dump auto-refreshing quotes to Excel with the DDE interface, so you might give that a try (I'm pretty sure it works with their demo account, but I haven't verified). I forget the format and it's been awhile since I've used it, but you can find the info on their website.

Just out of curiosity, since you say backtesting doesn't work for you, why don't you play with a vastly reduced share size while you are learning and refining your strategy? Maybe allocate 3-5% of your account as "training" and trade with 5 shares. This will do a couple of things: 1) Allow...

500k seems reasonable as it's a dangerous and highly skilled union job in an expensive part of the country. As far as the article commenting on guys making the big bucks sitting around as backup operators, I'm sure it's basically an insurance policy against down time in the event the main...

You basically have two issues to address: 1) Learning C# and programming. 2) Learning to interface to the Ninja-trader library calls. For #1, there's tons of books out there. Though I hate the titles, the "xxx For Dummies" are usually a good intro to the basics. I also like the Apress...

I'm having enough difficulty identifying questions 2-7, let alone rolling out 300k per trade.

That should do wonders to stimulate the housing market.

176 billion sounds ridiculous until you measure it over the lifetime of the program (30+) years, which then drops it down to 5-10 billion a year. Not peanuts, for sure, but given other spending (i.e: military), it doesn't sound all that bad. The program employed thousands of people and without...

Possibly for a short while, until you run out of diesel fuel and supplies. Longer if it's a sailboat, I guess, but you've got to come to shore some time. And which ports do you bounce between? Oh yeah, and the GPS system may or not be operational (or your electronics die), so you better be able...

If you have a funded account with IB, you can start a paper trading account (as opposed to the demo account). This should give you a better idea of executions than sim on your platform.

Seems to me that it would be more prudent to find a spot somewhat near your current residence rather than some place half-way around the world. Unless you plan to uproot and move there well before anticipated SHTF, that is. 1) Logistics of setting up and maintaining the residence become...

Any particular reason for your bearishness other than the couple of recent news items about analysts trashing documents?

Looks kind of similar to Prodigio from ThinkOrSwim. I've used graphical "coding" tools like that in my engineering career. They are great for just slapping together a simple test case, but anything complicated quickly becomes an indecipherable mess (try coding some sort of state machine in...

[Looks like HowardC beat me to this info, but I'll cast my vote as well :)] Are you looking to automate or will this system be traded manually? The ThinkOrSwim platform offers an interesting feature called "ThinkOnDemand" which basically allows you to replay market data and trade in a...

Based on the strength of the original post, I move that this thread be immediately promoted to #1 in the ET "Hall of Fame"