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That has been my experience as well. The prop platforms just don't perform and also lack many features of retail platforms.

The much larger problem is computing the range bars properly between the prior and current day. You have a boundary problem here since your data is stored by daily activity.

CORRECT ! Banks are doing mostly the former. HFT firms with seconds-long trades are real specialists. Finally, saying HFT firms are scum is like saying Apple is scum for taking advantage of people's desire for iphone apps. What a lot of B.S. !

http://247wallst.com/2011/09/26/americas-most-dysfunctional-boards/4/ This proves it...corporate America is now largely socialistic. What am I saying ? : These boards really suck and there is little competition for membership. Much of this dead wood should be gone, but it isn't ! Low or...

EXACTLY. And remember, the government who started this mess, is LOOKING FOR A SCAPEGOAT. HFT firms and Hedge Funds are their primary target. One might ask: Why ? WHY these entities ? Answer: They are successful and very secret in their operation. And, of course, they've done it LEGALLY. The...

You mean bulls*it, right ?

I love this comment !!!! So true...

I do remember Murray indicating about 2 years ago that he was going to be supporting real-time data...... Has he finally done it ?

All you need to do is monitor this. Nothing is going to improve until this reversal occurs....

FINRA Defends Algo Requests as U.S. Worries Grow By Reuters Wednesday, September 21, 2011 6:23:34 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters)—A Wall Street regulator that requested computer trading codes from some brokerages stressed it was a last-resort investigation and not intended as a "witch hunt,"...

TBT down to 20.41 !!! It's defying gravity (in reverse). THIS IS SO CRAZY....

Those are BUY-OUT decisions. We're talking MANAGING-THE-COMPANY decisions. BIG DIFFERENCE

I can't believe this stupid company. They just seem to go from one disaster to the next....all their own doing. After the Fiorina mess, now they are considering either Carol Bartz (just fired from Yahoo) or Meg Whitman. I'm just shaking my head...who runs that board ? HP was once a...

Down: Everyone's thinking....what if it doesn't work, what then ? Greece - here we come !!!

Tableau is way-cool....saw a demo of it today. www.tableausoftware.com

I visited a new Hold Bros. office just getting established. I took one look at Graybox at the time and just....RAN ! It was terrible. No support for stop orders; no analytics....etc, etc. Now this was about 2 years ago......maybe it has improved.

Agreed....as is my thread on TBT long in options forum (TBT = double short treasuries ETF). The Fed is just starting operation "twist" and this will keep rates at bay for quite some time.....maybe a year ! Only caveat: inflation starts rearing it's ugly head.....then rates must go higher...

Agree. My vote: scene from TopGun with the boys in the bar singing "you never close your eyes anymore....." and Kelly McGillis is summoned. Wow, she was a beaut !

Well, at least I was right about that October go long call.....TBT just at 52 week lows....AGAIN. Each new crisis brings it down....as money flows from equities into bonds.

Always go with scriptable apps that are SPECIFIC to your problem/need. These are known as Application-specific programming languages. Generic programs like Excel and R and Matlab are only productive if you are a real expert in them.