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Hey @Trader1034, Let me through few cents here. I understand where you are coming from. How about we are going to look from the another angle. What you referring to is the Retail trader. I believe Peter @Jigsaw Trading already mentioned somewhere in this forum that the platform is used by Prop Shops and he explain somewhere that account set DEMO. What solution are you proposing here if PPL in a Prop Shop are using this tool? I don't believe they have individual account like retail traders. In my example, i trade with Earn2Trade, I don't have my personal account set up and this is appearing as a DEMO in journalitix. All other accounts like online prop shops are listed as a demo as well.
So I am not sure what you are suggesting is going to work. It is just a tool and it is your choice how you can slice and dice it. I am sure you can find someone with a retail account and follow that user and extract his/her trades and set it as a bench mark. But then again you will miss traders who trades Online Prop shops or regular Prop Shops.
TT is one of my favorite platforms, but it doesn't blow Jigsaw out the water. I emphatically disagree with you. TT has one of the best DOMs, but it is missing many features that make Jigsaw a great choice. When it comes to charting, TT is also behind and has limited options. If TT had the basics of Jigsaw it would be my go to platform (I don't need fancy charts.) Who really offers the best of all world's but doesn't quite keep up in the trade management aspect of DOM execution is Sierra Charts. They offer everything, a jack of all trades, a master of none. We are stuck without a single 'does everything perfectly platform.' About your primary gripe, I don't care about a leaderboard and I doubt most ppl do. Talk to Peter directly before badmouthing his company, maybe? Pete's a good guy, he would likely listen.
My own request!
Hey Pete, can we please have a tick history within depth & sales like T4 and SC offer? It would mean never needing to load a chart for some of us who scalp. SC has better options for this than T4, but you get the idea?
Peter has the option of adding "live only" so people can filter out trades that are retail. I tried and passed TopStep to see what it was about. I posted my trades on the leader board and they actually showed up as "live" not "demo". As far as TST goes, it doesn't say demo for the funded trades. When I was in the combine, the trades were called "combine". When I got funded, they called them "live".
If it was a true prop shop, Peter can always call the trades "prop live" vs. "demo". Demo and Sim basically mean the same thing. That's one option and is less misleading.
Retail trader is a funny word. People associate that with a trader that doesn't make money. Retail trader is anyone that trades for their own account. That includes traders that make money. Someone could have traded for a big bank and left to trade at home. That person although before was considered pro is now retail. That doesn't mean that person doesn't make money trading.
Anyway, the request is to simply have a filter button at minimum. Filter only live trades. And if there are prop shops to call those trades prop live and have a filter for those. Again, when I tried and got funded for TopStep, my trades showed up as "live" not "demo".
This request has been made to Peter already. Anyway, I've seen Jigsaw stall on very fast markets. This isn't the bridge to NinjaTrader version. This was a CQG direct connection. It stalled and I had to restart. X_Trader has never blinked an eye in the fastest of markets. I don't use charts so I don't use any TT charts and wouldn't be the best to comment on them. I'm simply looking at the DOM and stability.
Not all home traders are retail traders. Some have exchange seats, some get billed as professionals for data, and so on. But I get what you are saying.
He constantly closes duplicate threads, it is an advantage of the site that information about companies or products is easy to find due to it all being in only one or two threads.
I am sure Futures.io does collect revenue from advertisers, and I have seen Jigsaw adverts on the site, but then find me a commercial website that does not have adverts. (But as is stated on the Elite Members page he doesn't take money for Elite Member referrals on the product discounts).
I presume that advertising revenue also helps allow Mike to continue having access to the site for non members who haven't paid anything, such as yourself as you appear to not be a Elite Member, rather than making it completely Member only.
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