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    Interactive brokerage prop trading groups

    well then prop firms should step it up and actually help traders succeed. the current software is designed for traders to fail.... you got shitty softwares like blackwood pro.. sterling etc
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    Topsteptrader

    thanks for the replies. i totally agree it's a good setup IF you actually get funded once you've completed their requirements. i'd hate to fly through the combine.. and then be told.. oh btw you have to do this other program for another 10 weeks to actually get funded. RE: improve you trading...
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    Topsteptrader

    hi. was very much interested in trying this until i read, "Our team's review is subjective and traders may be required to complete a Funded Trader Preparation period." so basically even if you pass the combine; you then have to trade more simulation and go under more reviews and adhere to the...
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    Interactive brokerage prop trading groups

    but i totally agree with you. most platforms offered by prop firms are ancient and suck super bad. and auto trading on them is next to impossible and support does not exist. i remember having emails back and forth with sterling pro support. and those guys are so unprofessional and they provided...
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    Interactive brokerage prop trading groups

    they got a special page for it: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=648 they must cater to them. just gotta find one. i think these companies tend to stay on the low..
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    Interactive brokerage prop trading groups

    hi anyone know of any prop groups that are plugged into interactive brokerage? i'd like to join a prop shop that uses ninja trader. most don't. but i know you can connect ninja trader with interactive brokerage.. so i figured; if a prop group uses IB for clearing.. i may be able to connect NT...
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    Pair trading brokers

    I did, over four times. Chat and via email. On email they said no, and i told them about CME rule, and they stopped replying to my email. And chat said, they dont offer spread margins.
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    Pair trading brokers

    I got the email reply from Clearing Risk Management @ CME. "Hello, Assuming that you are referring to the March 2015 Future contracts for both products (ES and NQ). initial combined margin would be 4543.00 Best, Clearing Risk Management"
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    Pair trading brokers

    Correct, they can diverge significantly, and keep diverging. I have many variable at play that try to quantify the divergence. 10k = overnight margin of ES (5k) and overnight margin of NQ (4k). This margin is at Amp trading. They don't offer "special" spread margins for pair trading it seems...
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    Pair trading brokers

    http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/files/SP500_DJIA_Spreads_Final.pdf
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    Pair trading brokers

    http://www.cmegroup.com/clearing/margins/spread-calc.html I emailed CME and will provide the reply. I cannot find the link on CME's website that showed the discounted margins for index futures.
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    Pair trading brokers

    Hi Anyone know a pair trading broker? I want to trade the spread between highly correlated (correlation > .98) instruments. My issue is that I cannot meet the overnight margin requirements. The current overnight margin requirements on, for example, NQ and Emini combined are over 10k. However...
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    Futures&Index Arbitrage - free lunch??

    Hi, Not to deviate away from your OP. But I did not want to create another thread. I have been very much interested in doing index arb. I have tested the idea intraday. Buy/sell future while simultaneously buy/sell cash index. And collect pennies. I want to test it live. But the big hurdle is...
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    Prop trading fees

    Hi can someone tell me what these fees are for: ECN FEE= I get this one CLR= why am i paying 1$ per trade on this. SEC= about 10 cents per 100 shares TAF= couple of cents per 100 shares NSCC= couple of cents per 100 shares
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    E mini inverse/ hedge

    It's essentially a pair trading strategy. Opening another account may work. I hear that's illegal? .. to be short and long same security in multiple accounts?
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    E mini inverse/ hedge

    I miss spoke; instead of hedge. I just want something that has a inverse correlation. Because I have a strategy with FAS AND FAS and mostly all other inverse ETFs that works pretty well. I wanted to try it out with ES but i need to find an instrument that has inverse correlation.. or close to it
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    Sterling API Developer Thread

    Very interested So I'm not a programmer at all and am completely lost as to how to get my strategies that I've automated in ninjatrader using ninja script. And covert them to sterling. I don't even know where to begin. So here goes the newbie questions 1) what is an API in terms of...
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    E mini inverse/ hedge

    What's a good liquid future ticker that's a good hedge for emini and is liquid. I'm talking -1 correlation. Or +1 correlation so It can be shorted.. Other than sp500
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    VPS

    installed 2008. faster than 2012 but still slow. the server can't even keep up with my key board typing.. lags behind almost a second. change VPS? the computer that i'm using to remote in has 3GB ram.. brand new.. 2.2 GHZ Pentium processor
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    VPS

    i'm not watching youtube. i said that to demonstrate how slow the VPS is. even browing the internet is slow. Even when i'm typing.. my keyboard clicks clicks clicks and then half a second latter i see letters appear on the screen. it's slow. what is your recommended ram? i checked out many...
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