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any comments about sim trading + slippage? should I just start trading real money?

I was hoping for something a little more specific. For example .. does CL and ES have that bad slippage thus SIM accounts are useless? I actually thought that SOT.com had some good stuff .. and now that I hear that 1) its using a sim account and 2) that theres huge slippage on live accounts ...

started to think about slippage after reading that schooloftrade.com is doing simulation trading and that live trading produced ~5 tick difference in fill price. Ive been sim trading futures on ninja trader + zenfire feed for a little bit, and are the slippages really that bad? Is what I learn...

A friend mentioned ninja trader + zenfire feed @ Mirus Futures. Any opinions?

this is what it says "with E*TRADE Securities and trade futures like the pros-with no platform fees of any kind."

It says 25% day trading margins and 0.99 commissions (per side, per contract, plus exchange fee) for 90 days, then 2.99 . How does this sound? it says the platform is TT_Trader

Im currently trading my equities on Etrade, which they also have a futures platform. Is it worth it to just go with Etrade futures? I hear good things about TT.

heres my situation: I'm fresh out of college and would like to get into futures trading. Currently no job, but I do have some cash and networth in the form of property in asia. I've been market depth trading stocks / stock indices for the last few months but dont have the required 25k $ to...

1) Ive been using eSignal to backtest my strategies. The problem is that I can only backtest one symbol at a time. This results in me having to manually type in each symbol, copy and pasting results onto excel, then averaging. Is there any platform which I can backtest multiple symbols...