Recent content by Xeno

Thanks, I'll have a look at that. It's still a problem though if you can't live test and not have to meet the minimum contract requirements

Thanks for the detailed reply - it sounds interesting. I have a few follow up questions if you don't mind. Is the backtest useful for intraday stuff then - trades that last 30 mins or so. Does the backtest use historical bid/ask or just work everything off the mid/tick price (which is my main...

Actually for testing purposes I'd like to be able to do no volume! It's academic anyway - this from XTrader website That's not really what I was looking for - I want something with a programming language.

Hi, I'm back to t2w after a long absence.. I can't find much talk here about using metatrader EAs to spread bet through IG Index. (they now offer indices and gold/silver SB as well as forex) So, is it rubbish? Worth a go? Dangerous? Anyone doing it happily? regards

I'm a bit confused - there's a minimum of 500 lots to use xTrader, but you also offer it on a 200+ band. So it's pretty impossible to test/dryrun strategies without trading at least 200/500 lots per month? That's not very attractive - most people doing auto trading will want to do some serious...

Currently what are the options for autotrading using a programming language?

It was at least mutual.

OK, but I don't even understand why you mentioned slippage on demo. My point is, if your system is so finely honed with your limit bets that you're wondering about the difference between PS and ordinary SB cost, then you'd be better off worrying about the difference between your demo and live...

1. If you believe ordinary SB play around then, yes, clearly you will be better off with prospreads. 2. If you believe your months of demo has shown very little slippage (as you mentioned) and limit trades will work the same, you're in for a shock when trading live.

Good point. I stopped using them when they casually stopped supporting automated trading through Ninja Trader. Went DMA.

Not necessarily. I'm saying there is no real difference in the cost to you. If the SB place is 2 pips, and PS is 0.5 on either side of a typical 1 pip DMA spread, then you will end up paying 2 pips to get in and out with both, so they are exactly the same. Forget about price move. Just compare...

There's no difference. To compare brokers you might as well assume the price stays still, there's no point in talking about break even. In both cases you 'pay' a spread. The normal DMA spread on GBPUSD is 1 pip. Both brokers are offering you their price, just derived slightly differently. In...

As a point of order, I believe he said it was executed at their quote, but triggered by the underlying. Perhaps you shouldn't gloat so much, it doesn't help your point.

Watching the bund futures level 2, I regularly see a block of 4-6 bid or ask prices removed completely, then re-inserted immediately. I'm just wondering what's behind it. Is this a liq provider pulling them all (seems odd if the provider was the only one supplying liquidity for all six bids?)...

Thanks for the reply. Anyone checked out the quality of these people? http://www.kinetick.com/