I'm a kick-ass programmer charging 120 EUR/150 USD per hour. I just started trading the (reasonably large) downpayment on a house we didn't...
According to my trade history, ThinkorSwim used to charge $1.25 per contract and now charge $10 per ticket plus $0.75 per contract. IB charges...
Folks, I'm restarting development of AlgoKit, my algorithmic trading platform for the Mac. It will use EasyLanguage for programming and...
http://algokit.com EasyLanguage user functions are not translated currently and I'm still adding definitions for functions and reserved words...
Is anyone using TT FIX? What broker? I'm with Velocity but I can't get my FIX interface set up, not in simulation mode anyway :-(....
Is anyone running automated and colocated near the exchange? What kind of latency do you get and how much does it cost you to rent a server?...
Folks, Is anyone profitable trading on EOD data? What data feed do you use then and how do you enter your orders? Thanks Joel
Is anyone colocating at the exchange? Using TT FIX? Leasing the server from Velocity? Please post or PM, I'm looking for your experience,...
Folks, Where would you go to trade 1-3k contracts monthly with very low number of contracts per trade in a 10-15k account? Thanks, Joel
Folks, I put two straddles on EBAY, March 27.5 and 30, between 10:34am and 10:50am when IV was 42-43% and stock price around 29.34. I...
I'm experimenting with straddles on the ThinkorSwim simulator. Put on a straddle on RUT when it was around 780.65. 1 Feb 780 Call @ 14.40 1...
Folks, How do you put on a straddle when stock is trading between strikes and assuming that you don't know which way it's going? Books...
Any traders here? Thanks, Joel -- http://wagerlabs.com
Read today in the WSJ that traders are buying up YHOO July calls/puts which are cheaper relative to volatility because they are so far out when...
Folks, Do you know of a real-time futures feed for Unix that's not Zen-Fire? Thanks, Joel
Folks, I use ThinkorSwim but they don't have an API and I would like a real-time options feed. I know about IB (can't use) and OPRA (2 x...
Is anyone scalping ER2 and ES using X_Trader? I'm just starting out, using the simulator for the time being. It took me a couple of days of...
Any opinions here? Velocity Futures offers both and I'm inclined to use X_Trader. I'm wondering if I'm missing anything by not using...
Folks, I see that the JAN APPL 80 calls are 12.80 (Ask) in ToS whereas the 85 are 9 and 90 are 6. It looks to me that it's cheapest to buy...
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