Amp Futures or Mirus

can't believe you guys are niggling over a few cents
I traded the S&P 500 futures contract when it first became available and
Merrill Lynch charged $150 rt

personally I don't care about 'saving' 50 cents
I want reliability and excellent - ? - good customer service
since Mirus are the developer of ZenFire and supply other IBs with the feed
you can bet your bippy they're going to be very on top of reliability

when it comes to customer service, it's an unknown until one has a problem

of course companies never know when they accept a new client if they're going
to be dealing with a real duffus or an asshole rather than a normal understanding
person, and judging by the posts of some members here on ET, there's quite a few
I'd set my dogs on before ever I'd allow them to open an account with me
 
Quote from Wallace:

can't believe you guys are niggling over a few cents
I traded the S&P 500 futures contract when it first became available and
Merrill Lynch charged $150 rt

personally I don't care about 'saving' 50 cents
I want reliability and excellent - ? - good customer service
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If traders didn't care about saving a few cents to 50 cents or more per contract CME seats wouldn't sell for $1.1 million and IOM seats for $400K. Traders doing major volume have to care about the total fees charged per contract because it has a direct effect on the bottom line.
 
I agree about the extra .50 cents, that adds up. Why throw your money away?

I would also recommend shopping around for TT feeds. I was quoted 4.75 at Mirus and AMP. Velocity at 3.98 w/TT feed is a good alternative. I demoed both platforms, the only difference is Zenfire updates the DOM like 40 times a second, and TT only updates 5 or 10 times a second. Fills are just as fast IMO, and .75 a contract is alot of $.
 
Quote from spidey:

I would also recommend shopping around for TT feeds. I was quoted 4.75 at Mirus and AMP. Velocity at 3.98 w/TT feed is a good alternative. I demoed both platforms, the only difference is Zenfire updates the DOM like 40 times a second, and TT only updates 5 or 10 times a second. Fills are just as fast IMO, and .75 a contract is alot of $.
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So is TT filtering the ticks???
 
while analyzing transaction cost, the real bottom line for the retail trader to consider
is when they complete their tax return - what deductable expenses are available to
offset some of the income tax payable

from NinjaTrader Help:
Different Data Feeds
Different data feeds produce different charts especially when using tick based intervals vs
time based intervals. Market data vendors each employ various methods for tick filtering,
throttling and time stamping. As a result, no data stream is 100% identical and thus can
cause subtle differences in charts. Since NinjaTrader supports many of the leading
brokerage and data feed technologies, its guaranteed that two traders using NinjaTrader
on different data feeds will have minor differences when plotting the same market and
time interval.
Real-Time Tick Filter
If you have the real-time tick filter enabled, it is possible that your offset percent (the
percent away a tick is in value from the last traded price to be considered a bad tick)
may be too tight and thus a good tick (gap up/down on session open for example) could
be excluded from the bar.
 
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