Recent Content by Rhody Trader

  1. Currency Futures Vs Spot

    I traded spot through IB for a little while and found it to be a pain. Maybe it's gotten better since. If you're planning trading futures...
    Post by: Rhody Trader, Dec 18, 2007 in forum: Financial Futures

  2. Currency Futures Vs Spot

    If you use an ECN you are accessing the interbank market, and if you use a respectable non-ECN broker, you have absolutely no problem doing trades...
    Post by: Rhody Trader, Dec 18, 2007 in forum: Financial Futures

  3. Currency Futures Vs Spot

    While that might be the case for other futures, it is most certainly not for the financials. Forex futures prices account for the interest carry...
    Post by: Rhody Trader, Dec 18, 2007 in forum: Financial Futures

  4. Currency Futures Vs Spot

    I can understand wanting the security of exchange trading, but if you think that you can get better liquidity and lower spreads through futures,...
    Post by: Rhody Trader, Dec 18, 2007 in forum: Financial Futures

  5. The Fed discontinues the release of M3 data and the current EUR/USD since

    True enough, but only assuming that you are not taking roughly equals amounts of money out of circulation via taxation and/or borrowing....
    Post by: Rhody Trader, Oct 6, 2007 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  6. Adjusting Risk when adding to Positions

    In general terms I would use the equity value of the account at the proposed entry point, figure out what your stop point is in terms of risk, and...
    Post by: Rhody Trader, Oct 3, 2007 in forum: Risk Management

  7. The Fed discontinues the release of M3 data and the current EUR/USD since

    I presume you mean to say not publishing the M3 hides the printing of $$$. Since there are umpteen other money supply statitics available from...
    Post by: Rhody Trader, Oct 1, 2007 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  8. The Fed discontinues the release of M3 data and the current EUR/USD since

    I'm waiting for someone to explain the causality of all this. How does the discontinuation of collecting/reporting a statistic tie in with the...
    Post by: Rhody Trader, Oct 1, 2007 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  9. question to don

    Freedom of speach may not be impeeded by the government. That's the deal. Private operations - which this site most certainly is - can do whatever...
    Post by: Rhody Trader, Sep 26, 2007 in forum: Chit Chat

  10. Book Titles

    Been trading for 20 years. Been reading for a lot longer than that, but so far nobody's paid me for it. Don't even care to think about all the $$...
    Post by: Rhody Trader, Sep 26, 2007 in forum: Educational Resources

  11. Currency Trading Greater Than 3.2T

    It's been quite a while since forex trading was just for the banks.
    Post by: Rhody Trader, Sep 26, 2007 in forum: Forex

  12. Book Titles

    I've read Tim's book (he asked me to review it pre-publication), plus Wizards and Reminiscences, but not Fooled as yet. Of the ones I've read,...
    Post by: Rhody Trader, Sep 26, 2007 in forum: Educational Resources

  13. Hedged carry trade?

    For the sake of accuracy, what you want to trade is AUD/JPY. I don't think you're going to find too many places where you can trade JPY/AUD. The...
    Post by: Rhody Trader, Sep 26, 2007 in forum: Trading

  14. Is Forex trading a game?

    You might be correct for position and swing trading where the pip moves are bigger. I know I certainly don't get anywhere close to even 50:1 (my...
    Post by: Rhody Trader, Sep 26, 2007 in forum: Trading

  15. Why risk:reward ration 2:1?

    The results of a trading method, system, etc. comes down to two primary factors: 1) Win % 2) Winner/Loser Ratio (R) If you have a...
    Post by: Rhody Trader, Sep 13, 2007 in forum: Risk Management