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If the segregated funds are kept at a bank with FDIC protection, then yes the first $250K is protected under FDIC. That only protects you if the bank goes bust. They try to keep the deposits at some of the more well-capitalized banks. The FDIC offers no protection to brokerages going...

I'd be OK with the proposed financial transaction tax the day Bill Gates is OK with a 50% sales tax on every Microsoft product sold anywhere in the world.

This Corzine guy needs to be punished for ruining the reputation of the futures industry and the confidence in segregated accounts. Clients from all sorts of FCMs are running away.

Not sure where Tradestation is at these days but Trading Blox or Amibroker may allow you more portfolio control for such a system. I haven't use Trading Blox but use Amibroker for EOD stuff.

Actually not so sure about not being able to write strategies in OEC. Go investigate for yourself.

From what I HEARD (no first hand experience), with OEC is basically like a Ninjatrader in that you can receive SMTP (email) signals from Tradestation and execute them via OEC's "AutoX" module. I could be wrong but from what I've heard from two different traders who use it is that you can't...

Ray, Thanks for replying. This is very good news for some of us locked into using Tradestation + Ninjatrader combination. I will go hunt around on the Ninja support forums for more info on this, but I would hope that the workspace functionality would have this main feature: ...

If I was just going to trade manually I would use Ninjatrader by itself with zenfire live feed with Mirus in a heartbeat.

I'm completely automated/mechanical trader so I need a platform where I can code my strategies other than Tradestation, so free me in that way.

Sideshow, Yeah I use the SMTP interface (email) to send orders from Tradestation to Ninjatrader. So OEC, would be very similar and probably not free me from Tradestation.

Well, after all our complaining, Tradestation decided to extend to May 31st the retirement of 8.3. Hopefully they will get 8.6 super stable by then. The truth is that my setup is still very tied to using Tradestation, especially their data. All of my stuff is coded in their Easy Language...

Just my two cents, I prefer to never average down / martingale / add risk when i am losing. I prefer the fixed fractional method of compounding money after each trade is complete. That does not mean I necessarily average up, but i think averaging up is sort of better than averaging down...

20% a year, every year is not pathetic regardless the type of trading. If you can do that, and establish a track record of doing that with relatively low drawdown, you will have rich people banging on your door throwing you their money to manage.

Yes zen-fire I think is very reliable, I almost don't want others to know about it for fear that more people getting on the ZF bandwagon will make my execution edge less.

Can't say anything about Infinity as I haven't tried them but I have been using Ninja/zen-fire with Mirus for over a year and a half and I have NEVER had their connection go down. Sure my ISP has gone down (THANKS COMCAST!!!) but none of the disconnects I've had were because of Mirus. Their...

I agree that this is the primary reason for smaller traders to mess around with ETFs before trading an emini, which in margin terms, is not really that 'mini' anymore, especially if trading overnight. At IB you need like 8 grand to trade 1 contract of certain eminis overnight.

Yeah that's what I was thinking. Too low of turnover. But I picked timing market bottoms because those trades are the ones that will make you a mint in a matter of days when the market recovers (assuming hypothetically that you are somehow able to pick the exact bottom of every crash). If you...

Haha! Yeah just break in and take all the money! It's SO direct. lol!

You can trade FUTURES long and short in an IB Roth IRA. I know cause I have done it and still do it. Stock, no shorting because you have to borrow money to short, and there is no borrowing in cash/IRA account.

Yeah look at some of the FX futures and FX spot products, particularly those with Yen, Pound, Aussie in them.