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You know, that's the key. I didn't mention that half-way thru this I had a severe tear of my MCL ligament by a crazed player's slide tackle when I was kicking the ball. That was a 6 MONTH recovery...and I came back from that. Omigosh, you are dead as a trader with that attitude. Your negativity...

Can someone please tell me WHY THIS IS SO ? I mean with all of the licensing revenue Sterling pulls down from all of those prop shops, why is the API SLOW and POORLY DOCUMENTED ? Why can't they spend a few bucks on improvements here ? It also sounds as if the tech support is marginal as well.

Omigosh, I've actually lived this one: "Failure inspires others" My daughter who had played soccer all of her youth had torn her ACL in the spring of her sophomore year at high school and had to rehab all of her Junior year. She had been captain of the JV team at the time. I worked with her...

Ninja is missing historical data loading and robust backtesting. They call their current backtesting mode "replay". It's really not quite even up to Tradestation's TS2000i's standards in that regard and that software is 8 years old. Don't get me wrong, Ninja has great potential...the support...

You got me there, but let's all agree on this: it's best to "hang out" with the "players" over there if you want the real high quality chicks. Heck, for instance, maybe this guy could manage some of Ronaldo or Toni's vast sums of money. Then, he'd get invited to their personal parties. Wow...

Exceedingly excellent "Freeware"....and it comes with great support too ! http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/smf_addin/ Works with Yahoo's history data banks as well as their delayed (free) or realtime ($$$) data feeds.

Definitely go to Europe, but get interested in their Football ! (SOCCER). Man, I've seen the hottest chicks in the stadiums since getting a subscription to the Fox Soccer Channel. I am sure the tailgating and the after game parties are outstanding as well....great way to meet em. Get to know...

Once this temporary commodity bubble bursts, we're in for wicked bout of DEFLATION.....not good for gold prices. And yes, your house will continue to be worth less and less over time. No one in our neighborhood can sells theirs, so they're trying to rent them. Problem is: everyone is doing it.

What's really interesting is how the chip vendors love to hype these new processors....naturally, to make "the sale". JQ Public then blows his bucks on something he doesn't need and can't really use to it's fullest potential. Only in America !

Well Done Surf ! Will the price of gold be going down next 5 years ? Oh, absolutely. Can it go above $1000 before then ? Oh, absolutely. It's gonna be crazy....we are in UNPRECEDENTED economic times.

This entire statement should probably be blown-up and framed on most emini trader's walls. Well Done.

Multithreading != ParallelProcessing Let's poll all of the great platforms and vendors and see how many have done it, shall we ? 1) Thinkorswim's great Java platform: NOPE (they can't even run JVM 6 yet !) 2) Interactive Broker's Java platform: NOPE (they can barely keep it running period)...

FIX is terrible.....it is too abstract....never really written SPECIFICALLY for trading. Remember, it means Financial Information Exchange....which only remotely applies to trading. Complex AND no support ? Wow, you are asking for major trouble and pain !

Interesting, but how did you come up with these hard-and-fast numbers: 5 20 34 ? Why not 10, 30, 50 for instance ? And this smoothing technique:"sma" Why not EMA, JMA, TRIX, DEMA ? Also, would these change things over time as the market volatility changed ? You make this sound so...

THinkorswim has a good browser-based platform and even one that runs on an iPhone.

This is easy. 1) IB - 4 Requires Java-based TWS as "middleware". Unreliable...will stop deliverying data without error or exception thrown. Dozens of "gotchas" and workarounds required for throttling and other subtle server-side limitations. Overall poor tech support and even worse...

The Operating System you run on has a far more drastic impact on your trading software's performance relative to hardware. One trader moved from a clunky, 4 year old pentium 3 processor box with Win2k on it to a brand, new quad-core beasty with Windows XP. He could never tune the new machine...

From this title, Jack Grubman comes to mind. Anyone remember him ?

Guys - they just threw me off of their system - no discussion made at all. This was after waiting 84 hours for a resolution ! Keep in mind, this was all over a billing snafu where I thought I was getting level 1 CME e-mini data and was not. It was that simple. Wow, what a nasty bunch. Beware ...

MY GOSH, isn't is so OBVIOUS ? : TRADE SIM, TRADE SIM, TRADE SIM... seriously... until you are profitable. TREAT YOUR SIM ACCOUNT AS IF IT WERE YOUR OWN MONEY. THIS IS SO TRUE WITH DAY TRADING. Doing this without a proven plan is hopeless. Get your plan together and test it in SIM mode.