Traders' Roundtable

My Pinnacle Data subscription is due for renewal and so I checked CSI's offering to compare once again. CSI - cost for one year (including license fee) = $1,035* Pinnacle - cost for one year (including license fee) = $200 * From CSI's web site: license fee = 135, one year of 69 markets going back 1...

I too wonder how you test on 86 markets over 30 years? Doesn't CSI cap you out at around 69 markets and up to 25 years of history?

I sent an email to CSI a week ago enquiring (as I do annually) about their offerings, but no response.

Dear Stephen, your posting demonstrates for me why I pretty much go with the dumb and simple approach - trading is difficult enough without us adding to our own woes with complications. As a veteran trader friend always tells me, "If you can't figure your trades out on the back of an envelope, ...

I've had this situation many times. Of course, there is no right answer to the problem - just what answer YOU like. Maybe some fund operators have a formal way of dealing with it but I doubt it. For my part I make a clean break and start afresh - but I don't actually close and reopen positions I'm a...

After years of getting terrible fills in the New York pits, I can't say I am sorry to see them go. Even though today ,3/3/08, was well known as the first day of trading 100% electronic in the softs, I notice vendors I deal with are still not ready or know what to do to offer any form of continuous b...

I received the latest "flash" report this morning from an industry data collector who tracks 350 CTA-type funds. Average Performance of 356 CTAs: Month of Sep = 4.65% YTD = 6.45% Assets = $120,309,432 in general, a big reversal of August results. Of course, individual results vary quite a ...

At the upcoming FIA event in Chicago, one of the lecturers will be speaking on the ill effects of duel market trading. IE electronic side by side with the pits. And will question the viability and thought process behind the decision to trade side by side. Seems many traders are displeased with this...

(My first post did not take, so I'll try again briefly.) Yesterday, at 1:44 PM after the pit closed, the e-copper market was manipulated - either intentionally or not. See graph attached. That is not an errant tick, those are real prices all the way up and back - a few people got really hurt. Maybe ...

At Sluggo's suggestion, I had a look at Reuters (Equis) EOD offering - they have a nice 60 day trial for about $25.00 It isn't for me I don't think - even though well priced. Best I can tell, you get prerolled continuous data only. That wouldn't be so bad except that their method of rolling appears ...

Hello Leapfrog, I don't see how you could achieve your goal with Pinnacle data until they put the actual volume and open interest into the forward contracts. Do you know if they've changed from using the current contract's volume and open interest in the forward contracts? I checked, and you are ri...

... what I would really really really like is some software that would allow me to take raw contract data from whatever source and do my own formatting and rollovers. Bravo! Me too! I'll bet the smart money already do this. We have the raw data (Pinnacle provides it in their "deep" histor...

Does anyone know of a broker that currently has the platform capability to take a time release OSO type order? My broker (OEC) has time release and time cancel orders and OSO orders but not both at the same time (they're working on it). This would be an excellent feature to have as it would effectiv...

My Pinnacle Data subscription is due for renewal and so I checked CSI's offering to compare once again. CSI - cost for one year (including license fee) = $1,035* Pinnacle - cost for one year (including license fee) = $200 * From CSI's web site: license fee = 135, one year of 69 markets going back 10...

Another (highly regarded) poster recommends them here:

viewtopic.php?t=2135&highlight=wisdom

I have first hand knowledge of OpenEcry and their platform and can highly recommend that.

Looks like a ringing endorsement both ways.

I like it!

And the independent research organization that produced this table was...?

I gotta say, seeing these sorts of issues that come up with CSI data now and then, does not encourage me to switch over to them. As a Pinnacle Data user, I seem to struggle along each day just fine - even though I'm limited to only about 40 markets, including some nice International ones. Data corre...

Some new features were added last weekend to the OEC platform. The PNG below gives you an idea. They've added a "matrix" type feature to the ladder - pretty neat - and a bid/ask histogram overlaid at each price point. These features would be of interest, I imagine, to the scalper. I don't ...

Is this right place to mention a piece of PC maintenance software - hope so. Sluggo mentioned in another thread a stunt he tried: Quote _________________ After reading these, I concluded it was a good idea to give Blox the maximum amount of memory (physical memory and virtual memory) during a huge o...

One of the great features of the OEC platform that I would point out is the ability to input next day orders the night before with "time to release" and "time to cancel" attributes. This is different from parking orders where you have to fish the orders out of a bucket and send t...

FWIW, looking at a representative sample of hedge funds above $100 million in the first quarter of the year, most seem to be giving back some.

I know I have found the markets to be unforgiving so far this year.