Hi Mike, The best way to think of this is that you will pay the $5.20+/- per trade. If you don't do $500 per month in commissions, your...
I agree with virgin. I just want to add that they don't have a monthly charge for JTrader as well. The $500 minimum is the only real...
mbradley, I've traded both the TWS and JTrader. About 2500 trades on TWS and only around 300 on JTrader so far (it's the platform that I'm...
Andy, I wasn't sure about putting an order up to short two contracts so that you can exit one and end up net short by one. That's great to...
Hi Andy, I used the myTrack software a couple of years ago. I remember that realtime was something like $19.95 per month. You can run it...
Hi Andy, It'll probably be a couple of days before I get to check out the parameters that you discussed. It should be interesting to see...
Andy, I wanted to elaborate a bit on the system that you are looking at. As you probably know, moving average systems such as this are trend...
Hi Andy, No, I didn't get Tradestation going. I'm still looking to purchase a used copy. My trading right now is centered around very short...
Wallstreeter, That's a tough question that many who are much better than I am at all of this have wrestled with and debated about at length....
Hi Ray, I'm comparing the mean of the profit/loss from the trades with a mean of zero. Essentially, I'm comparing it with a "meaningless...
Thanks, def! This is great! It is yet another HUGE plus for Interactive Brokers. I will try this out. As I said earlier, I have no...
Andy, The actual backtesting is fairly quick. It is the cleaning up of the data that takes some time. Checking for back ticks and the sort of...
I've often asked myself this question about over optimizing my systems and have avoided trying to find optimal parameters, probably to my system's...
Andy, I currently use the Quote.com feed to MetaStock Pro. I did just purchase Tradestation and will be working with that as well. QCharts...
I don't actually have the FIX API. I was just describing how the IB system works in the background. I trade using the Java Workstation that IB...
I do already have an Interactive Brokers account and I love it! I've been with them almost since they started doing retail accounts. The IB...
Just a quick question for any futures daytraders out there: Does anyone have a broker or know of one who is very fast (~1-2 sec EMini fills)...
Just to add a different point of view: I own both MetaStock versions, EOD and Realtime. The software is capable of displaying data in any time...
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