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Thank you aarnasingh for your explanation. I however do understand the basics of Options trading. My question pertains more practically entering buying and selling of Calls and Puts on some platform. Let me state it another way. Assume I have full theoretical knowledge of Options trading (I...

Hi, I'm currently using Saxo as my broker. I've traded Futures and CFDs, and in these cases I used the simulated/demo account to teach myself how to trade the instruments and also get used to entering order/sale details. Recently, I've become interested in Options. So all is good and well...

Cool. Thanks Penny Picks. Will check it out

Hi, I was wondering about: 1. Is anyone trading Agriculture commodities (processing potatoes, skimmed milk and butter) on the European Energy Exchange (EEX)? 2. These are extremely low volume, illiquid agri futures. And I was wondering what trading strategies might be appropriate for this type...

Is anyone familiar with International Brokers Inc.: ibworldwide.com? If so, what do you think of them? I'm interested in using them, but not sure since I haven't heard anyone talk about them. Their trades from $2.95 looks really cheap...

The data is for private use, for my own trading account. I'd like to process the raw data with R statistics. First of all I have done Google searches, and have investigated a number of the providers. All of the ones I investigated had one of the following problems: 1. Too expensive (ie over $55...

I checked out QuoteMedia & Markit, and QuoteMedia has exactly the products I'm looking for: QuoteMedia - Content Solutions - XML Data Services - Intraday XML and QuoteMedia - Content Solutions - XML Data Services - Quotes Data XML You mentioned that there's quite a few of these on-demand...

Thank you for your help. As I mentioned twice, an update up to 30mins is sufficient. To be honest, at this stage I have no idea how many securities I will be using. At this stage I estimate around a hundred, or the number that makes up your average index. But I'm not sure. The JSE has about 50...

Thank you Trading Spaces. IQFeed comes close to what I'm looking for, but it still requires a very basic Windows exe to be installed for some COM based TCP/sockets access... or am I wrong?

Thank you for your reply Richard. Periodicity would be daily: Close, High, Low, Volume, Open, etc, but for the current day I'd like to get the last traded price info, about 20min delayed. Typically what you'll find from Google Finance, Yahoo Finance and FT.com. The only thing is that I require...

Clearly I'm missing something. I've researched eSignal On Demand before I posted my question. I cannot seem to find any info on how their data will be accessed without using their Windows application. Can you maybe clarify how I will access the info in an open format over the Internet?

Hi, I've been searching around for the past 2 hours, and cannot seem to find an answer. I'm looking for an affordable delayed (15-30min) data feed that is available over the Internet. I don't want to be tied to a proprietary native API (ie no Windows libraries that have to be downloaded). Also...

I'm currently doing a bit of trading in South Africa, on the JSE. I'm increasing the amounts allocated to trading, as I increase my skill, with the aim of becoming a full time trader in about 2 years. However, I recently had to pay a large amount of tax, in part due to trading, and in the...

Expanding the universe of stocks is slightly more difficult at this stage, because for various reasons I'm limited to JSE SSFs. The JSE is a smaller stock exchange + the list of SSFs to trade isn't large. But I can definitely shorten the timespan. I will give this a try. Thanks for the help.

Using MetaStock, I created a reasonably good trading "system" (well, at least for a novice still learning), based on Bollinger Bands and moving averages for JSE SSFs, over a +- 3 week period. Now I can just run the system on the available stocks, and it will list the results. The problem is...