Agree with most here apart from the JH-gibberish: I discourage anyone who considers trading by themselves. Demo is for learning software, or...
Wow, you sure must be a hotshot debater. When wrong, bark louder, offend and swear. Does that make you profitable when trading? Maybe it worked on...
You haven't learned to read yet? He wrote AMERICANS should demand it, not the media. Uhm, yeah - the media is usually thought of as a public...
I don't trade much interest rate futures, but now I want to take a position in the 3m T-bills vs US 3-month LIBOR. Could anyone let me know how to...
crashes are a thing of the past - fully electronic exchanges has trading curbs and limits that simply won't allow a market to trade down that much...
Ah, not using the FX Trader either - using TWS. I am a DOM-man myself, and unfortunately in the FX world there's an abundance of "poor" (imho)...
I like trading on IDEALPRO, but there's this thing that's been bugging me recently: The great thing with an ECN like IDEALPRO is that you...
Agree with cabletrader. Currency pairs move not because of speculation (alone), but because of interest rates and the health of the economies...
There's a plugin called Spread Driver which basicly works as Autotrader for spreads in Autospreader. Use Excel to feed into Spread Driver.
This might be a good option for me, it's just that I have zero experience with prime brokers and don't really know what to expect in terms of...
Yes, that's right. I only mentioned it since I've heard various things regarding Currenex as an ECN and then banks having a last look option and...
You're right, size is very relevant: Account minimum 50k usd, AUM about 500k usd, clip size between 1m and 10m depending on strategy on whether...
Thanks for your input, and yes you're right: Backoffice support is very important for managing accounts. Much appreciated.
Should be interesting where we are in a couple of days. I'm long USO puts and looking for $99 per barrel.
I am shopping around for an FX ECN broker to use for managing accounts - currently looking at IB, HotSpotFX and Dukascopy. The first imperative...
Excel 2007 is supposedly multi-threaded and supports multi-core cpus, so it should work a lot better with high-frequency data. I haven't tested...
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