Hi JJ, I hope I got that right. My apologies if not. Actually I was rather hoping to hear other people's interpretations, particularly from those who proclaim the benefits or otherwise of NDD, STP, DMA, MTF, VDP and any number of other TLAs. In ...

LMAX = revolution?!?

Just in case anyone is interested in evidence instead of hearsay, my profile is currently displaying the results of a live trading comparison between an Alpari MT4 SB account and an Armada MT4/PrimeXM/LMAX account, amongst other things. Cheers, Jim

LMAX = revolution?!?

Hi LFN, If you're an existing LMAX customer you could try asking nicely. At the risk of slapped wrists from the moderator, here's the full details: url As any number of people seem happy to keep pointing out, there are places you can go that ...

LMAX = revolution?!?

Hi LFN, Well, I've tried it and at first glance it works OK (as well as MetaTrader ever works that is!). What more can I tell you? Cheers, Jim

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Orders can, however, always be cancelled!

LMAX = revolution?!?

Pardon? LMAX is an MTF, not an ECN. The two are not identical. Jim

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Hi Bleek, When precisely was this strange occurrence? I don't look at the LMAX web platform, but on the other hand I do have a variety of computers and network connections that log quotes from LMAX and other sources, especially on NFP days! It would ...

LMAX = revolution?!?

My H1 spikes were on a live feed. Maybe this is just stale historical data from the "bad old days"?

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Hi Jfk, Do you second my P.S. also? Spikes on H1 cable? Cheers, Jim

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Hi Trader, Prompted by your rant I fired up MC for the first time in a while, and it looks OK to me now (see below). This was on a live account. Was your piccy on a demo? LMAX tell me there are still issues on the demo feed, which should get fixed ...

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Hi Bleek, It does have a bearing on position SIZE accuracy. Surely you and I and LMAX need all the "retail market makers" we can get? Cheers, Jim

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Hi Astro I see! Perhaps because the Duke and/or their liquidity providers work on the assumption that 95% (or whatever the number actually is) of FX traders lose money in the (often swift) end? Esper "signals" all sorts of complex events, as well as ...

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Hi Coco, There is no advantage to the broker's marks (sorry "clients"). Some people claim it's worth paying the broker a fraction more to make their "paperwork" easier, but I don't see it that way. Some software can't cope with multiple strategies ...

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Hi Astro, That's true, but it's not the issue. At the heart of AlgoTrader is a complex event processing engine. The question is how to make Esper look a lot like JForex (should anyone happen to be interested in that idea), not how to make the LMAX ...

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Hi Astro, You mean you're on LMAX's "banned list". You live on the wrong side of the Atlantic? Cheers, Jim

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Morning Astro, I meant both (+ FIX). i.e. source for an example strategy ported to a variety of different "trading platforms". For example, one of the things near the top of my TODO list at the moment is providing AlgoTrader with the equivalent of ...

LMAX = revolution?!?

Hi Jeff, JFreeChart does have its advantages too though, one of which is that it's open source. Might you have a potential interest in interfacing it to AlgoTrader? url My speciality is the backend, but the frontend needs some work also. i.e. the ...

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Morning Jeff, Martin Thompson assured me (before his departure!) that the LMAX MTF is 100% Java. Particularly if you only know Java, why do you figure the client needs C, if the exchange doesn't? We're using an open source FIX engine (QuickFIX/J) ...

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Morning Astro, There are two completely different "platforms", so I'm afraid it's comparing apples with oranges. The native Java API that I've "stress tested" certainly works pretty quickly (when the circuit breakers are closed at least). There's a ...

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Hi PIN Trader, I didn't mean to imply they were ONLY a futures broker. Perhaps I should have tagged the word "too" on to that sentence? The evidence does rather suggest your analysis is correct. At the very least it's an extremely convincing ...

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