Hello all. I have been using a demo account at AMP Futures with the feed coming from CQG. I have been using Ninjatrader with this setup. Based on suggestions here, I have just been paper trading instruments such as CL, 6E, 6J, etc and over the last couple of weeks have had some success. I was refereed to this broker by a company called Shadow Traders. My question is, more about the broker. Is AMP futures a decent broker? What are some other brokers/software that others here use? Thanks in advance for the help.

Shadow Trader is amusing, but a shill.

Selection bias around here for thinkorswim, which has waned somewhat since Tom Sosnoff sold out to Toronto Dominion.

yeah, thinkorswim
if you follow the forum most posted charts are from thinkorswim

I will take a look at thinkorswim. I like the ninjatrader set up that I have been using with AMP. As for Shadow traders, I would agree. I have learned more reading these boards than anything.

infinityfutures.com

only futes, no other bull****

You may wish to take a look at Asi's thinkscripts - on par with anything NinjaTrader offers, and if you want something custom, most likely he will write it for you.

TOS is limited in ways ninjatrader isn't. I like TOS because it's easy to use and the scripting is reasonably easy to learn and use effectively.

I'm not a great programmer (really, I'm not), but TOS scripting is simple enough to pick up on the fly. However, being simple means there's a lot of stuff I'd love to be able to do that I simply can't.

Variable moving averages being my big sore spot. I still haven't figured out a way to actually make one that works. I've written two scripts that... well, basically emulate a variable moving average, but they're still not all they could be cracked up to be.

I like TOS for many reasons though. I use IB as well and while IB has a much more professional interface, it's also got a much steeper learning curve. TOS can do pretty much anything a retail trader could possibly want to do.