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Hello Simon,
don not use Tradestation but have used PFG Best for 4 years with
virtually no complaints. mainly trade sp mini's on their B server and
bonds on ACE. both are very quick to fill and very seldom am I unhappy
with the fills. never had any false trades or missed trades. I have
a broker in their CA office who I use for questions, some account
maintenance, option trades. On a few occasions over the years I 've
had to call him to get an order in when my ISP died.
I looked briefly at a coupleof other platforms and one thing I refuse
to do is give half or more of my screen to my trazding software. Best
is an "index card" sized window.
Best regards,
Jim Johnson mailto:jejohn@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Sunday, February 9, 2003, 5:14:48 AM, you wrote:
SC> On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 21:57:35 -0500, Seth Alpert wrote:
>>I have TS2000i and am now trying TS6, planning on switching to
>>TradeStation
>>Securities or PFG-Best for daytrading e-Mini S&P's. I'd appreciate
>>hearing
>>from anyone who has used either broker favorable or unfavorable,
>>privately
>>or on the list. Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Seth
>>
SC> I use TS6 and have used PFG Best. I really like TS6 as a
SC> charting/datafeed platform but their software interface
SC> (Lind-Waldock's) for entering futures orders is totally antiquated
SC> compared to the competition. You are required to manually type the
SC> price each time, and on their "improved" version you also have to
SC> click on month & year, for each and every order! Extremely cumbersome
SC> and slow to get orders off quickly. No ability to set a default
SC> option. I had a positive experience with PFG_Best ...the interface is
SC> easy and fast to navigate and ES/NQ trades going through their B
SC> server were very fast. I would use TS6 for charting/data and a
SC> separate broker for order execution. PFG Best would be an option,
SC> with one possibly cheaper alternative being the Patsystems (J-Trader)
SC> brokers like:
SC> www.advancedfutures.com
SC> www.daytrade4less.com
SC> www.proedgeonline.com
SC> I'm not affiliated with any of these companies and have no experience
SC> with them. Just watch out for the different versions of J-Trader
SC> floating around. Some only hold stop and stop-limit orders locally
SC> on your PC while other versions send them to be held directly on
SC> Globex (preferred IMHO).
SC> Rgds
SC> Simon
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