Traders' Roundtable

I voted 4: It is most likely just an aberration that means nothing. Who gives a damn so long as there is an acceptable degree of liquidity over time?

Hi AFJ. I am still looking for code that will allow me to do my own rollovers - my reasoning is that having my own software will mean that I can take contract data from any source and process it as I want.

What are you trying to do? Calyon and Fimat have excellent coverage in Europe. IB has good coverage and dirt cheap executions. ec Hi ecritt . I'm trying to find a broker with the following: 1. An order platform that is intuitive to use and does not confuse the heck out of me (which IB's does) and w...

Thanks for that Old European, they do have a sort of 'bucket shop' feel to them but I can't put my finger on it.

Is there anyone in Europe that you would care to recommend?

www.synthesisbank.com Does anyone here know anything about this broker? They have what looks like quite a decent trading platform and their fees are OK (~$6 round turn for futures). Perhaps some of our European members may know of them? Thanks in advance.

Visual inspection means less than nothing. Test both and you will have your answer.

Thanks wojo , I will dig into this and report back. Thanks ecritt , I would love to use their DataManager package but Dmaxx will not split it out of the suite and I understand that the cost is very high and the package is 'lease only'. MarketQA looks interesting though. Essentially I am looking for ...

Hi BARLI, Pinnacle is straightforward to use, covers most markets, is very well priced and is very stable. Good support too. CSI has a zillion markets and an interface that would confuse your average genius plus it is somewhat more expensive. Can be less than ideal in the support stakes I hear. I ha...

mathi wrote:It might have worked historically but nothing tells you it will work in the future...

Nothing (that I have found anyway) will tell you that anything will work in the future...

These guys have done some serious work on the subject: http://www.blackstarfunds.com/files/Doe ... stocks.pdf - perhaps you will find their paper to be of interest.

AG I could not agree more with your sentiments – it is imperative that one understands every detail of each contract that one intends to use for testing and for trading. Anything less will simply not do. Just to add my $0.02 to c.f.’s post: I too have expended some not inconsiderable effort in r...

Hi AG. This leads me back to my hobby horse of wanting a stand-alone application that can handle rollovers and formatting with data from varying sources – has anyone seen anything in their travels? (Sorry to be going off-topic Mr G.)

Great idea Damian, and probably the ideal company to shake things up! I have played with the nightmare that CSI refer to as "software" (which looks like it was designed by a drunken dyslexic on a very bad day) and I am sure that Google could easily provide a far superior product given thei...

Excellent point. In many cases curve fitting is taken to mean something like “making things better after the factâ€

Hello again Marc. I get the very distinct impression that you have managed to read the many replies to your post that have all offered to ‘steer’ you in a sensible direction and completely ignore damn near everything that has been said. Despite your protestations to the contrary you are seeking ...

cliffg wrote:Dear Administrator,
Why does Trading Blox not have its own forum?

I think that if you buy a copy of TBB you get access to a separate TBB forum - Tim, is that the case?

Bravo Mr Garner, an excellent post! Getting to the stage of trusting your own systems always takes a lot longer than you ever thought it would.

Thanks sluggo, but I think I will have to leave my friend on his own. I was hoping that I could write and compile like I do every day in C++ then just have him test the code but that is not to be it seems. I'm sure that the TBB user community will be able to answer his questions and help him along t...

Thanks Tim. So TBB is like TradeStation in that the code editor is wrapped inside the application to prevent external editing?

I would like to help a friend write some code in TBB - is there some kind of a verfier package that would allow me to check for compile errors before sending the code to him for testing/use? (I don't use TBB myself). I am assuming that I can just use a text editor to actually write the code. TIA.