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Something that helped me and I offer as a good suggestion is offering to work the night shift. Find a firm which has, or needs night guys. Its getting harder and harder to get in with a firm, but if you want it enough this is probably the best route. I worked 6pm-6am, 5 days a week, and after...

Okay thank you, I actually came across this myself shortly after posting and found the excel examples under program files, cqg, cqgnet, samples, excel. I got all the codes but am still having trouble getting data from a specific day in the past. There is a program titled "Getbars", in that...

Hello I am trying to import live data from cqg into excel. I am able to import the last quote of day, the current bid/ask, and yesterdays settlement. I write the following codes for each into excel. =CQGPC|SX06!ASK =CQGPC|SX06!BID =CQGPC|SX06!lLastQuoteToday My question is, Does anyone...

I have been trading the currency futures on strategy runner for my college class and was thinking about opening a forex account. I am unsure how the spot forex market works exactly. I use CQG for charting, if I chart the Yen Cash market is that the same market i would be trading through a...

Does anyone who trades either the euro or yen futures use an index as a tool for forecasting future currency rates? For example, watching the Nikkei futures or Dow Jones Stoxx futures vs the S&P? If so what type of things do you look for, and what sort of time frame? For example, watch for...

Nikkei vs S&P? Chart? Trading? Has anyone ever heard of people spreading the Nikkei futures vs the S&P futures, or Nikkei futures vs the Dow futures? If so, what ratio do they do, ex 1 Nikkei to 5 S&P?Thanks. al

Could you please recommend a good online discount english broker? How do I find out more information about trading a stock on the exchange?

I am in the united states, in chicago. Is there any way I can trade this stock without them having a ADR because the company is listed on the london exchange?

I am interested in trading a stock on the london exchange, options if available, however do not know how to go about doing so. The ticker symbol is PRTY.L, PartyGaming. Can someone please offer advice as to how to go about trading this stock through optionsxpress. Is it possible? Thanks.

Urkel, Thank you for your help. I will start looking around the financial room. Would you suggest just asking people high in the desks? Any suggestions about where to start in that room? How willing are many of those desk managers to take the time and offer advice? I know a lot of traders...

Hello, Thank you for your post, I've found it very helpful. Working for a Hedge fund was something that really interested me a few months ago before I was turned off by hearing a lot about how they tend to only hire mathematicians and computer programmers out of Harvard. I also realized that...

I had no plans too leave school early. I was looking for a job now with the hopes that I could work this summer with the group, work my month long winter break next year, and then begin full time upon graduation in spring of 2007. Possibly start my training, or just get some good experience is...

I recently spoke with someone from a prop group in Chicago who helped answer some questions I had about the propriety trading industry, however, he wasn't able to answer one of the biggest questions I have: where might I find information on small trading groups? I would like to work with a...