I'm curious...you say you think backtesting is the key to success. How would you accomplish your backtesting if you don't like to program? You...
Offering the following constructive criticism/things to think about for an interview: 1. Dates on your resume are screwed up. 2. Why did you...
Here is the answer to the meaning of life, as far as FX goes: Listen close... From any given price you can effectively assume that the next...
The term "hedging" makes no sense when applied to spot fx. If you are long EURUSD, for example, and you want to reduce your exposure, you just...
How about this to help people out. 1. To understand the relationship between volatility and price, get yourself an Excel spreadsheet and create...
Have you gone onto the CME website to see what the daily volume is? If you do it will answer your question.
Dude...go back and read my post very carefully...like step #3.
Do the following: 1. Use Google/ET to find out names of the major futures exchanges worldwide. 2. For each exchange, go to their website and...
Buy a copy of Galen Burkhardt's book, "Treasury Bond Basis". A fixed income futures price has three components: Cash bond price, Repo rate, and...
Nobody in the entire world, in any market, guarantees stops. I hope no one ever asks this question again. Cash forex might help you avoid...
Stops are just market orders that get activated when the market trades at your stop level. I see the spread for GBPJPY on IB right now is 6 pips...
Bid/ask spread
1. Commissions on buying one contract and selling the other contract 2. The spread, which is about the same as the spread for trading the front...
Sorry..crosssed posts
Actually, yes, could you explain "theoretical"? The Dow isn't tradable in that you can call up a broker and ask to buy or sell "1 Dow". You...
From Bloomberg: 1/14/00 O 11619.35 H 11750.28 L 11612.53 C 11722.98
Used to trade TED spread...cash against futures. What do you want to know?
Anyone who trades cash bonds is intimately familiar with these concepts. The reason the CBOT doesn't talk about this more is probably that all...
Currently, if a small order (futures or options) comes into the ring it automatically gets placed on an internal electronic platform. Something...
Excel has a function called YIELDMAT. Use the help to see how it works. All you have to do is get the input variables to plug into the function....
Separate names with a comma.