What a great site. I like this sentence very much: "A final point - bear in mind that trying to make more than $10,000 a day will make your job...
I would not use SPY. For data, see http://www.traders2traders.com/linkindex/Default.asp http://www.anfutures.com/index.html
Bloomberg is not a backtesting software...
Indeed nothing personal, just opinions. For me also, trading is a purely mechanical job. It's because of my experience that I have this point...
I am not novice at all but I understand the nocice's position. I have traded for 5years in various dealing rooms in Europe, trading mainly fixed...
We can also think about it in these terms: You have got 15k You suscribe to cheap data/software (100/mth) and decide not to trade but...
Track every tick? Not sure about that. What you need is just a good trading plan. I have used cqg at 600/mth and mytrack+aiq at 100/mth and my...
When you bought your first car ever, could immediately afford Mercedes? Cheap software/data vendors are necessary for those who want to start...
Mytrack +sierra/aiqtep/amibroker
And why not create a grand jury who could condemn to a 10$ payment those who start an useless thread
All the quant/relative value traders lost a lot in 98. Remember LTCM...
It went from 790 to 890 in 8 days. What more do you want?
I live in Belgium and what happened to me also happened to a few other belgian traders I know. If you pay 470 vat and fees included, I guess they...
No I don't think they are courting bankrupcy. They are more instistutional than retail, that's a choice.
Tech: hopefully, I knew the software very well because the only time I had a problem with a formula, I never got a reply (when working at the...
Yes they don't offer Eurex and that's something i don't understand from guys claiming to be the best in the industry.:mad:
CQG: very reliable data feed, nice product with very easy to use programming language, used in most banks' trading rooms, expensive (around...
No: your mytrack plan + 59 for tep + exchange fees.
Never heard of this platform. Most of us here only know about pure trading/charting platforms and tradestreamglobal looks to be a...
CQG for 400$/mth looks cheap. Have these guys finally cut their price?
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