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Saturday, May 9, 2009

Choice of Trading Platform

Here are my choice of trading platform:

1. US stocks and options. Try Thinkorswim, click here. This one is the best of the best platform, the rest are all sucks! though they don't pay me a penny for advertising for them. you can trade futures, FX too using the platform, but FX isn't that great, (this is quite sometime ago, i didn't trade FX for long time but their FX platform improved quite a lot)

2. Forex. Try IBFX, click here. You should use this one if you are trading on FX only. User-friendly, minimum spread, fast execution.

3. For local stock. I'm using CMC marketmake. But compare to US platform, this one sucks. recently it constantly hang, slow loading, the awful bid- offer price chart. The reason why i'm switching from Poems to CMC is because poems don't have stop-loss function, only stop-limit which is not what i want. nonetheless I'm using cmc a lot to trade HSI index mainly for intra-day. Tell me if you have a better one.thanks.

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2 comments:

Unknown said...

hi FJ,

i also counter same problem by using CMC.

i can accept their explanation that the problem was due to broadband connection.

i have tried to reinstalled the progarm and also restarted the modem. it works.

i found that sometime, after antivirus software auto updated, the problem will come out, u tried to reinstal the program and restart the modem.

happy trading :-)

SgTrader said...

Thank u Qiu,

Lim& Tan Intraday chart not bad, provided by ChartNexus but they provided not many counters and CFD charges not attractive too. I'm using the charting but trade on other platform, just can't find a good integrated platform in Sg now unless you pay for it.