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    Cheapest Prices on Futures Trading

    IB os pretty straight forward, the only gripe I have with them is they pass along charges and fees on sales - I don't think E trade and SCHW do that
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    Cheapest Prices on Futures Trading

    I trade at IB as well so was just wondering if there are more competitive places I know SCHW charges over 2 bucks for the same contract ..
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    Cheapest Prices on Futures Trading

    Currently, my broker charges 65 per micro contract - all in Does anyone use brokers for Micro Emini or Emini where the cost is far less Do those same brokers allow free trades on both buys and sells of stocks and ETF
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    Tick Strike or Other Short Term Market Tools

    I have listened to tick strike (which makes audible noise to reference the order book for the related security, but I find most of it be just noise - although the owner - Aamar is 100% reputable. Does anyone listen to anything else that can give short term signals (not looking to...
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    A Mean Reversion Strategy with 2.11 Sharpe

    The entry sounds about right, I am assuming you sre only using the 4pm close, which may save you from nasty intraday selloffs that accelerate into the close The exit sounds too conservative - as if you are exiting the trade just as it's starting to work.A rule of thumb one good futures trader...
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    Audio Sounds for S&P 500 Ticks

    do you feed the tick into a API file and trigger that way - i was doing that but there seems to be a few second delay . If there is a way to do it from the TOS desktop, that would be great
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    Audio Sounds for S&P 500 Ticks

    Hi All I have been using tickstrike on Financial Juice for the past year, and they have different noises when ticks get to extreme levels. Not sure what happened in the past few days, but they have raised the sensitivity so high that even the smallest of moves in the tick, sounds like...
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    Anyone using Excel DDE to connect to TWS?

    Thank you Darth - got my new laptop with all the above and shall try again - glad yours is working
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    Anyone using Excel DDE to connect to TWS?

    I was running Win 8 and Excel 2008 Are you saying it will work with Win 11 or is it the Excel u - pgrade that was needed- my spreadsheets are all written in 2008
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    Anyone using Excel DDE to connect to TWS?

    I am in the same boat as you. I tried the socket bridge as they suggested and got the error message. The only thing they will tell me is that they no longer support it I am going to try and switch my algos over to RTD as it's similar enough
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    What are your thoughts on the yield curve inverting and the outlook for US Equities?

    any investment grade ETF's that yield 6% or more short term...Still finding a lot of corporate ETF stuck at 3-4%
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    Best Sites to Set Up Filters

    I am sure this has been covered a few times before but in your experience, what is the best site either paid or unpaid to set up real time filters. For example, if I am looking for stocks (Real Time) on an hourly chart that just had a bullish MACD crossover and where shares traded x price is...
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    Stock Correlations

    Appreciate the comments - but as opposed to trying to download and input myslf, this would find the top 10/20 correlations for any stock..I wonder if it exisits???
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    Stock Correlations

    There used to be a website http://www.market-topology.com/correlation/. From what I can see, it has been off since August. Is there any different page showing the stocks list that correlates with the one we choose? I was looking for something similar, I found e.g. a page that allows you to...
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    Getting Closing Prices for A long List of Stocks on ONE PAGE

    yes, i will give you the same value add you gave me
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    Getting Closing Prices for A long List of Stocks on ONE PAGE

    this info is not hard to get - multiple sites and apps can give me months of closing price info. Simply asking if i can get it all on one page . Thanks for all your help
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    Getting Closing Prices for A long List of Stocks on ONE PAGE

    Gary I already have a custom downloader - but it puts each stock on its own .csv tab. If its just a question of running a macro to get them all on the same page, I can do that for $25. Was looking for a free solution, or happy to pay you the $25 I would pay to my excel guy
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    Getting Closing Prices for A long List of Stocks on ONE PAGE

    I have a database of around 1000 stocks and I love the output the Yahoo finance creates, except you have to go ticker by ticker to get the results. Multiple stock-loader does the same, with each ticker having its own tab . Is there a way to get all 1000 stocks on the SAME PAGE with their...
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    Stop Orders and Limit Down

    if limit down in 2173 - and my stop is at 2174 assume I sell 1 emini at 2174...I would have a buy-stop order placed at a price saying 2180....when the market is trading limit down, i can still get a sense on where the market is intrinsically trading thru the VIX futures, and it seems that my...
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    Stop Orders and Limit Down

    Stupid question but - what is the harm of putting stop orders in right ahead of where the limit down will be and then placing reverse buy orders in case they reopen - worst case seems to be that that you get whipsawed for a point or 2 (ie (place sell stop at 2174 and buy stop at 2178) but...
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