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Dr. Brett is an asset to the trading community. His shares on keeping your wits about trough the highs and lows of trading are invaluable. This read in particular reminded me of the similarities between trading and sport. These 10 tips could easily be in the training facilities of any athletic...

Sheen, There are a few ways to do this. I generally use their algo design platform, ADL, to create various OCO templates but there are 'canned' oco order types as well. This is canned OCO order entry: https://www.tradingtechnologies.com/help/xtrader/order-cancels-order/ Here's an OCO created...

Are you looking for something like MD Trader from TT? https://www.tradingtechnologies.com/help/xtrader/md-trader-field-descriptions/

Rigged to the upside is what they want you to believe. The market moves much more violently to the downside because of that which makes owning YM puts always a nice trade when we're making new highs as you needn't pay a bunch but the vol will spike on a sell off and you can 4x your money...

What kind of brokerage coverage do you need? Trading stocks of futures?

The fair weather early in the US spring is going to point to more crop problems. Farmers rushed to plant during a nice stretch but now we're getting frost in the northern plains and swamp like conditions in already seeded fields in the corn belt. I'm a big fan of Aug $7 calls in ZC.

I saw that big cut in price at TT as well. It's pretty clear they're going for a knock out blow by offering institutional level software at a retail price. I'd like to see a proper options screen for my broking business, but for simple options order entry entry xt is fine. Can't be beat for...

Try xtrader charting, xstudy. I've been on it for years and am a big fan of their butterfly charts in conjuction with theri autospreader.

Short Sterling is a product. When you further define the product with expiry, it is now a contract so short sterling march 2011 is a contract.

Looks like TT has gone server side for spreading as well. I'm curious about what they mean when the article states this is the first in TT's new Strategy Engine.

It depends on the exchange. BM&F = BR:ISU, NYMEX = YO, ICE = Sugar No. 11, LIFFE = cW they offer an online database of all contract codes: TT-Supported Product Database

tt's got that or will have it. they connect to ebs which as spot fx and spot metals Trading Technologies International, Inc.

Liquidity provides protection as it ensures tigher spreads. If the bid ask is 16/17 and you buy 17, you can get out at 16 is needed. In illiquid markets, the bid ask maby be 13/17. You buy 17 and have to get out, you're selling 13 for a bigger loss.

Before going live, find a broker that will let you run the program live through simulated data feeds for some time. Get a datafeed that allows you to trade 'live' without any real risk as it's in simulated mode...many brokers have these if you ask...the data flows tick for tick with real market...

There are alot of autotrading applications available. Personally, I like Autotrader from TT as I can link live market data into excel and write simple if/than statements to generate my trades. Trading Technologies International, Inc.