They both have demos so you can try them out. I thought the audio quality on tradersaudio's S&P pit was far worse than trade the news. The latter...
Just be careful with "LNCM" as a company name. People may still be hunting for the president of LTCM. :-)
My biggest single winner is a straight call purchase (BKS for earnings a while back). Some stats out of my portfolio (for whatever its worth)....
In the last hour and 15 minutes, I've downloaded 4MB from DTN for primarily the ES feed. And their feed is highly compressed. In an uncompressed...
I gave you numbers. I also gave you at least a dozen things you have to consider. If you're going to keep back tick data, you'll have to buy it...
It depends on a lot of things: - How many exchanges? - How reliable do you want the feed to be? - What does your typical customer use your...
OEX has tons of volume, as does SPX. However, ETF options have gotten VERY popular lately. QQQQ, SPY, DIA all trade hundreds of thousands of...
You didn't go long cocoa, did you? I took the other side of that bet, and have been happy. :-)
As I've said elsewhere on this forum, the US-exercise option, so to speak, is redundant on a cash settled instrument. The only possible advantage...
I'm not a programmer, but I typed in a few random codes into Tradestation, and it says I can do this with only $500 in my account in less than a...
I first thought he was being clever and deeply thoughtful. Now I realize he just does not have a grasp on the English language. "Unexpectedly,...
We Americans are a backward lot, but it's not like we have a secret formula for pricing options that no one else uses. :-) We ocasionally use...
My favorite is this line: "This means that 70% of the population do not have to have life style reductions of 40% simply because of the power of...
I wish I could understand Grob also. I'm sure he has many pearls of wisdom, but I get lost in his stream of consciousness. On another thread,...
B1S2: I'm utterly confused by this. I've read many of your posts without a doubt to your sanity until now. :-) 1) You're selling straddles if...
This topic has been covered to death, and there are literally hundreds of reasons why your system might work or it might explode. The only way to...
Where'd ya go, Danno?
These guys do need a lesson in basic salesmanship. I wrote an email asking for a price, I got a voicemail saying I must call back to get the...
TradeTheNews is $125 just for the futures squawk. I use the squawk mostly to hear the pit volume, but the commentary has been very useful too....
IB charges nothing for an exercise.
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