Who can I replace Lightspeed with?

The crashing is a high volume issue Im pretty sure. It allways happened just after open on a big story somewhere. It crashed when I was shorting AIG after earnings. System crash.. I missed a two dollar ride down.
Fortunately I was just papertrading but I felt something was wrrong and I remembered some other crashes..
It would had been my record probebly. I think Ill have to buy a new monitor when this happenes to me real!
 
Ive been reading most treats on this forum and I want to make credits. Its been an outstanding source to me finding answers to my questions!
Very intresting to read repley and advise from the crew from IB as well. Now Im asking you: Lightspeed pushers where are you???
 
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Now I'm finally making money papertrading after months of training and full of confidence to be profitable real time the hardest job seems to be the choise of broker and software..

RTimeNetCoder,
this has been a very usefull thread to me! The crashing issue also appeares in the demo version. Alsked them some question as well. They allways repley but really thats all. Very poor respons indeed..

Their software is quite outstanding from most I've seen though making it hard to find alternatives. Im thinking IB now with some 3th party software(their graphics sucks) Perhaps Neoticker or just Quotetracker with Madscan. Not sure yet..

Please add!!!!!!!!
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Sorry, I'm not allowed to. LS's legal department threatened Elite Trader.

Good luck tho! :)
 
Should give them some credits as well while it has been a great platform for me to learn trading real time(LS demo). They should get it right and change attitude a bit while their platform is a great experience. If your not a indicator freak and like straightforward trading this is a very clear platform. This Lightspeed demo, using real time data, should be an example to other brokers! If seen crashes only at open so rest of the day also fine. Fees pretty fair as well.
But I cant live with it while I like to trade on the opening minutes, snatshing your money from the table..
Alternatives please!!?
 
Im thinking IB now with some 3th party software(their graphics sucks) Perhaps Neoticker or just Quotetracker with Madscan.

Any comment!?
 
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Im thinking IB now with some 3th party software(their graphics sucks) Perhaps Neoticker or just Quotetracker with Madscan.

Any comment!?
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I got a demo from NanoTrader a while ago. Looked very nice, and I think they do IB. Demo was short tho... make sure you have enuf time to play with it before requesting demo.

Be interested in hearing your opinion.
 
Looked very prommising, watching the logo..
Turned out to be some program from my grandmothers days. Like software was just invented..
Any serious comments please??
 
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Looked very prommising, watching the logo..
Turned out to be some program from my grandmothers days. Like software was just invented..
Any serious comments please??
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No, no... not at all. Nano is the most up-to-date software I've seen. State of the art.

User interface is smooth and polished with excellent on-chart trading, dom, etc. I saw no glitches when I demo'd it.

The best and fastest backtesting system I've seen by far as well, with weighted indicators and Monte Carlo tuning. The vids don't do it justice, but give an idea.

I would call it a superset of ninja with a cleaner interface and more features.

The only downside I've seen is that it currently has no option chain or spreader, but nano says they can be added.

I would hire it if I could connect to my current broker with it... My broker is FIX only, in process of trying to get them to work together.

No, I don't work for them... I was just very impressed! :)
 
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Looked very prommising, watching the logo..
Turned out to be some program from my grandmothers days. Like software was just invented..
Any serious comments please??
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As a further comment, I must say that I liked LS's platform very much too. Very different from NanoTrader tho.

I've seen and used many, many platforms. I would rate both of these platforms at the top if there were no other issues.
 
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