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    Trading With LMI

    The LMI scheme must not actually be trading on the futures market but instead be a spreadbet or cfd equivalent this would seem to be the explanation as to why the fills are bad and the data is only $5. Obviously if you were trading a funded account on the real futures market you would be paying...
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    What Traders Are Telling Me About TT®

    Can you explain the MAP fee please: "TT will apply MAP charges of $250 per user per exchange for screens, capped at $5,000 per exchange per month on the TT platform." Is this for brokers/FCMs/Props, are they expected to pass on this fee directly to the traders as an additional cost or do some...
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    Cheapest way to hedge (short) GBP vs USD or EUR on 1y+ time frame

    Have you looked Into www.assurehedge.com
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    3-Day Flash Sale - 50% Off TraderDock Challenge ($100)

    Ok so pro rate cme data fee for each sub exchange not the cheap non-pro deal of $15 for all 4. In that case I presume they would be ivip/iip cme reduced rates as trading PEs prop account rather than the retail/non-member rates charged on the sim? On TT's $50 charge an additional 30c a side up...
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    3-Day Flash Sale - 50% Off TraderDock Challenge ($100)

    What happens with exchange data fees or TT fee once live are they covered by the toppy sim roundtrip rates? If not are they retail or pro data rates?
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    Is the average annual income of prop traders approx. £164,000?

    I worked on this floor in those years it was the refco trading services floor at bishopsgate in London. At its peak it had over 300 traders there. I took part in his first study. I would say the average for the time is accurate, some made millions some much less. 2005 to 2007 were great yrs...
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    In search of a good trading API other than TT

    http://www.ctsfutures.com/api/
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    Anyone in Dubai?

    Moved in 2008 still here, no issues on speed these days which was back then, DPTG or PT as now known under new owners clear ED&F Man mainly. Couple of guys from Tower etc moved over. Ask Ray Otto he's the Irish guy that used to trade at the old DPTG. Rates on a par with London prop shops.
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    Alpari UK Announces Insolvency

    http://www.alpari.co.uk/client-updates/notifications/posts/2015/january/important-announcement
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    FXCM owed $225 million by customers who lost on CHF

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/11349958/Swiss-franc-shock-forces-West-Ham-shirt-sponsor-Alpari-out-of-business.html http://www.alpari.co.uk/client-updates/notifications/posts/2015/january/important-announcement
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    Alpari UK Announces Insolvency

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/11349958/Swiss-franc-shock-forces-West-Ham-shirt-sponsor-Alpari-out-of-business.html Another one bites the dust
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    FXCM owed $225 million by customers who lost on CHF

    Alpari UK just announced insolvency
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    NYSE charged with giving some customers head start on market data

    http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/3403.html http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/3583.html interesting
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    Ransquawk now covers Asian markets! Trading the news

    Yawn! Sigma been 24hrs covering Asia for ages too. Ransquawk late as usual http://www.sigma-informationservices.co.uk/
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    Using an Algo to trade news headlines automatically

    Jan 25, 2010 Thomson Reuters algo news feed targets high-frequency traders Data vendor Thomson Reuters has unveiled a new service designed to give high-frequency traders the fastest possible access to machine-readable news content. Thomson Reuters NewsScope Direct will offer...
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    CME Planning Europe Exchange To Compete With Eurex, Liffe

    CME Group Inc. (CME), owner of the world’s biggest futures exchange, plans a derivatives market in London by the middle of 2013, setting up in competition with Eurex and Liffe, the largest venues. The exchange will start with currency futures, the exchange said in a statement today. CME’s...
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    KCG down due to rumor of algo gone wild

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-02/knight-says-losses-from-trading-breakdown-are-440-million.html <b>Knight Explores Options On $440 Million Trade-Error Loss</b> Knight Capital Group Inc. (KCG) said losses from yesterday’s trading breakdown are $440 million, almost quadruple its 2011...
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    Why did FB take a big hit today?

    http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19093078 <b>Facebook has more than 83 million 'fake' users</b> Aug 2nd 2012 Facebook has revealed that it believes there are now more than 83 million fake users on the social network....cont.
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    Eurex Vols

    In July 2012, the international derivatives markets of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of <b>8.1 million contracts (July 2011: 10.1 million).</b> Of those, 5.8 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (July 2011: 7.2 million), and 2.3 million contracts (July 2011: 2.9 million)...
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    70%-80% of Facebook ad clicks are fake

    http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3581608#post3581608 HA I said just that 4 days earlier :D
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