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Hello I’m looking to back-test my system (trading intraday FTSE100 Futures)- before even paper-trading. From my researches to date, a good way seems to be - open a gold account with ODL/Mybroker (I think their gold plan provides historical intraday data for FTSE futures) and run it with Sierra...

Glenn, thanks for your post. I’ll check with ODL on Monday to see if they permit market orders. The following probably shows my ignorance of the mechanics of trading Futures using limit/market orders, But anyway: Doesn’t it work the same way with Futures as conventional share-buying -...

Thank you for your replies, Dashing Blade and Robertal spread of around 0.5 to 1 - that’s what I’d expected. That’s a heck of a lot better than the spreads quoted by the SB firms (though I will look at FuturesBetting). Even though I’ve never traded derivatives before, this is why I’d...

Hello I'm new to derivatives trading so I'd be grateful for a bit of advice on the following: What’s the average size of the spread for a (nearest) FTSE100 Futures contract? I’m considering opening an account with ODL securities (Mybroker) for intraday Futures trading. I noticed another...

This may not apply to your situation, Osho67, but I've found that when I'm running McAfee Firewall, my PC (Pentium 3, Windows98) can freeze for several seconds - very annoying. It'll do that every 2 minutes until I disable the firewall and just run with McAfee's virus-checker. Then...