Help deciding on trading platform

lurefo · Jul 13, 2010

Quote from pchan:

Stay away from tradestation! The charts and matrix always locks up. I have called tradestation and they don't care. This has been an issue for a week. I called to ask them to give me a commission rebate or something and they laughed. They seriously read me the agreement over the phone that states they aren't responsible for anything. Basically I said hey I wouldn't be calling and complaining if it were a data isuse from the CME or the internet was down but this is your servers and it's been ongoing for a week. They don't care. So Tradestation is the only Company in the free world that can charge you without providing a service. Rather ironic that they are a brokerage and their primary source of income seems to be the people they could care less about. Been trading for over a decade and Tradestation is by far the worst and most callous platform/brokerage I have ever dealt with. Even Refco was fair and didn't intentionally screw you. Tradestation financials - lower revenue, lower net income by almost half and a 24% reduction in # of trades as same time last year with an increase in employee compensation. Funny how poor customer service is viewable in financials.
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I strongly advise that you stay away from Tradestation if you want to trade. The datafeed has been so bad lately I can't even have it as a backup broker.

There has been numerous threads about good/stable platforms like NT, Xtrader, etc... look it up.

pchan · Jul 14, 2010

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I have Ninja and IB and get the TICK data no problem.
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Thank you Picaso, will look into IB.

ET99 · Jul 14, 2010

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Hi guys,

I'm in between esignal advanced GET, Ninja trader and Tradestation.

I'm posting because I'm really having a hard time cutting out the bullshit and deciding which is the best platform.

I was leaning towards esignal, but I can't stand their pitches disguised as seminars. It really makes me question their overall integrity, plus it is just insulting when someone is trying to close you non-stop for 3 days in a row.

Can you just reply with your honest 2 cents. What do you use? Why do you like it? Did you try something else before? Sort of thing...

Thanks in advance.
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advanced GET ?!?!?

which century do you live in?

ScalperJoe · Jul 14, 2010

Hi, I've found that Sterling works quite well. I'm also considering Lightspeed now that they bought TerraNova (broker) and Anvil (platform). You can download a free demo of both and check them out.

Stamatti · Jul 14, 2010

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advanced GET ?!?!?

which century do you live in?
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ET99, are you just out to start an argument or can you actually elaborate on your opinion?

Like you, I come to this forum to seek wisdom from like minded people. My limited knowledge on the subject has guided me towards advanced GET as an option, if you have a better alternative please share it with us.

Thanks.

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Help deciding on trading platform

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