If you don't want to use margin, you need cash. Buying 100 shares at $5 will require $500 in cash or equivalent margin. But, the others are...
Anyone found a good pit (bonds and/or S&P 500) squawk box? I've tried: TradeTheNews - their S&P guys are pretty good, good quality audio, you...
Possibly a more interesting backtesting scenario is to refine option models to better fit the actual data. For example, there's a clear inverse...
Supposedly OptionVue can do backtesting, but I tried the demo for a while and didn't have much luck. I've seen systems based entirely on...
You're not quite seeing what you think you are. In Level II, you're seeing the open orders at different levels on all exchanges. What you're...
One uses the Motif look-and-feel and the other uses Windows XP? I don't understand why the source of eSignal or DTN's data from CME would change...
Instead of trending markets, you may want to look at markets which actually have appreciable options volume. My first post (at the bottom of the...
I don't use hypertrader, but I've been using DTN all day doing some post-close statistical analysis.
I think you stopped early. :-) http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=72766&perpage=6&pagenumber=4 My comments are 3rd from...
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=72766 Don't know about Neoticker though.
a sweet directory, and sweet thanks. How sweet!
You can only query tick history, so I don't believe there's any way to reconstruct bid/ask changes that occured without actual trades. (Unless you...
Perhaps they meant through the software package you had chosen? Or are you writing your own apps? That data was gotten through a history query....
You're mistaken, bid and ask history is indeed available. The last 2 trades for IBM (gotten through DTN's history): 8/11/06 13:02 - 100...
I admit I've not used eSignal, but I have been using IQfeed for about a year to trade both equity options and futures options. The only complaint...
http://www.sonicfutures.com/ $6 per side, but I can't find much in the way of reviews on them. Anyone else?
Hey Danno, Just looking at your portfolio performance, I'm confused. If you turned $3k into $234k in 2 years, why couldn't you live off that? :-)
Were they both on CMGI, and both within a week of each other? :-) Ahh, the good old days of .coms...
Purely self-directed trading through an online platform of open outcry futures options.
I could use any recommendations for a discount open outcry futures options broker (CBOT ags, CME meats, NYBOT). I've already looked at the...
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