Not really, there is even a major difference between an actual ecn and a bucketshop, do you use an institutional brokerage or do you use IB?
I find your opinions interesting, and I'm often in concurrence. I understand you trade FX, do you use IB or what broker do you use, out of...
Looks like IB is literally the last semi-honest ecn fx broker with an actually decent API. If IB goes down, it literally is over for the retail...
So what type or class of brokerage would you recommend?
What do you think about what happened to Pipeline? Allegedly, even institutional broker-dealers such as GS are doing this type of 'front-running'...
Vision Financial has Realtick and Suretrader has DAS, they support Canadian clients.
Curiously, there used to be a thread on ET regarding this subject, but apparently it was removed. There were already people talking about what...
Seems I was somewhat early-to-the-game with this.
Well, if you earn less than the limit, it's another story, but many foreign banks won't even open accounts for US citizens now as a result of...
No, the short-term capital gains rate is still 33%, making the puerto rican 'tax break' effectively worthless for traders. As far as long-term...
You don't get it. If you're a US citizen, you have to pay the same federal taxes to the IRS no matter where you live on the planet. The only...
"Alleged links to terrorism", nice try, but with that name we know he isn't muslim, if that was the angle you were going for. Cohen is a jewish...
Looking back to the beginning of this thread, I see the issue. Spot Gold and Gold Forwards are traded OTC like FX. In fact, many of the FX ECNs...
Both he and the other guy are probably using retail IB to trade, and not an institutional-grade FCM, so they might not understand the...
ICE and CME have APIs for their OTC clearing services: http://www.cmegroup.com/clearing/clearport/clearport-api.html If your platform (like TT)...
It's traded on ICE https://www.theice.com/publicdocs/ICE_OTC_Heat_Rate.pdf And TT also supports it:...
This is true. The 'capitalist' US has the second highest short-term capital gains rate on earth (after australia, which is 45-46%) at 43.4%...
Edit, For Australia, it's 45%: There's a 1.5% surcharge, which is rising to 2%, so it will be 47% for short-term capital gains/income in australia.
It's apparently worse for US traders than I originally imagined. http://www.cbiz.com/page.asp?pid=9162 If you're a canadian trading us...
This is what bitcoin is missing. You can have a cash settled futures market and use the fix protocol for market data and execution. Of course,...
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