optionsXpress for futures trading

[Reaver]

Quote from rogcas:

a technical term ..


for a nice amount of muzzer

aah I see.

 

[Reaver]

Quote from mister_doodi:

Do Not Use. They bought out Expresstrade and the platform is mature but it is shockingly bad. They have a myrid of web based charting options but thats all they are just charts. You can't trade on them.

Thanks for the info.

 

[clarodina]

Hi anyone knows a good futures broker which allow implementing the strategies below automatically (platform would not require online when inputted orders already)

Place a buy and sell price with stop loss attached. If the buy is fill 1 contract eg but price retraced to the sell price, sell 2 contract, 1 for sell the inital contract the second to establish new sell. Vice versa is the sell is filled.

Pefer the orders all built in when orders are inputted and platform need not online the whole day. Currently with IB.

 

[John_Wensink]

How do you get price improvement when the orders are only routed to one exchange?

Where are you receiving price improvement on futures executions?

Quote from rogcas:

they are shockingingly bad - also favour the large orders, don't bother with price improvements, customer service crap.

find yourself a decent futures and options broker

 

[loufah]

Quote from Reaver:

They look expensive but good. I imagine they'd be too expensive for a daytrader, unless you were trading big size, and even then too expensive...

They look expensive, period. $6.99 to start, plus exchange fees, plus (in the footnotes) $.50 transaction fee. Even E*Trade, of all places, charges less. Aside from not needing to download a platform, does Optionsxpress futures offer any advantages?

 

[agspreadtrader]

If you want to trade futures, go somewhere else. Maybe they get the options game, but for futures they lacking. I was with xpresstrade and converted - I am looking to change.

 

[Compulsive]

Quote from clarodina:

Hi anyone knows a good futures broker which allow implementing the strategies below automatically (platform would not require online when inputted orders already)

Place a buy and sell price with stop loss attached. If the buy is fill 1 contract eg but price retraced to the sell price, sell 2 contract, 1 for sell the inital contract the second to establish new sell. Vice versa is the sell is filled.

Pefer the orders all built in when orders are inputted and platform need not online the whole day. Currently with IB.

Bro, try http://www.cannontrading.com/ and tell them you want to use Gensesis http://www.genesisft.com/
cost $50 bucks a month for Genesis and the things that you are asking - can do it

Cannon also owns

http://www.e-mini.com/front/