I hope they will make it also be available in Holland as ABN Amro is a Dutch bank BTW did any of you see this new broker? http://www.zecco.com/Default.aspx With them you can trade shares for free (starting from october). At least, that's the plan.
Marketindex will add more products at the end of this year, such as Energies and Indices, just had a chat with them. Personally, I am not too much interested in trading Dax and Bund, but trading Crude Oil / Natgas through them will be great !
Calling Chicago is of little use considering the product [marketindex] is not approved for trading by the SEC.
But you could trade FX thru ABN AMRO Inc. which is headquartered in Chicago. www.lavatrading.com/lava/fxpage.aspx?f=solutions/primebrokers
anyone has any experience with abn amro market index? I am thinking about opening an account there so views would be highly appreciated
I had one for some months to try it out. I was not satisfied, they rip you off like everyone else in the CFD-business does. But...they're the best of them I think. I was never ripped off in a really bad way. But if you got a bunch of orders somewhere and a currency is trading 2 pips below it, they'll take it, while on no other platform that price is reached. Also their daily charts are messed up and they're not able to fix them. Trade futures if you have the money and save yourself a lot of trouble. If you want to trade currencies and can't trade futures, go to oanda. Look ABN got a 3-5 pip spread on the Dow...that means you need at least 4 ticks to be profitable. That sucks. Instead trade the emini-russel future: 2 ticks and you're 5$ ahead with 1 contract. I mean you don't have to be a genius to decide what you do. Having a 3-5 pips disadvantage is really hard to beat... Also you get slow and often not so good fills, but it's not as bad as on some other CFD-brokers. Daniel
Im demoing their platform now. Im likeing it but lots of reviews on them seem really negative. Might go live a find out for myself soon. I dont think they charge you for taking your money back out (like oanda do) so I guess I have nothing to lose.
RiskArb, are you still trading with them? Is everything still okay? How have they changed in the last year(s) Does anyone else have some comments about them they would like to add?