Please point away all you like (however please see my proviso below, it's near the bottom of this post, in bold, even you can't miss it!), I've replied to every one of your slightly irrelevant error-pointing comments so far, check the thread if you ...

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lol well I had to, we would have been here until next Christmas if I'd waited for you to understand the issues lol, there you are banging on about your beloved spreads again. 0.05%, and more on occasions, yes. But slippage, yes slippage is an ...

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I think the industry-standard term 'directional bias' is pretty descriptive but what would you prefer it to be called, 'up or down opinion', ''bullish or bearish outlook', 'buy or sell disposition'? I'm interested to know how you would use this ...

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I don't think I mentioned anything about the costs being added to spreads, in fact I've pointed out to you numerous times what I said, even in the text of mine you quoted in your post I said I'm not talking about spread. What I said was "in reality ...

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Hotspot FXr as in 'r' for retail, the operative word being retail, as far as I know they operated no differently than any other bucketshop. Considering you didn't seem to know anything about these issues before this thread, even if you had known ...

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I'm all for having a reasonable and rational debate, if you think there are errors in my posts then please feel free to point them out sensibly and lucidly and if I think you're wrong I will tell you why. But if you expect me to participate then ...

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Me either but it sure sounded impressive, I'll have to remember that one

How certain can you be that you have an edge?

OMG, this is beyond pathetic now....please read and at least try to understand. If you can't then fine, but at least exercise a bit of restraint, you're making yourself look like a complete arse! Suppressing and smoothing quotes, skewing quotes, ...

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Mornin' Xaron! Not just scalpers, real scalping (as opposed to just short-term trading) has it's own inherent problems for these shops as they often have difficulty hedging risk quick enough so naturally they dissuade scalpers. I think you're right ...

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What 'so called research', I've suggested you do your own research on the subjects if you want to learn about them, would that kill you? You seem to have a fixation about Oanda and their spreads, which bit of "Don't think spread, think quotes" and ...

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In which case I have an advantage over you in that I've had over 6,000 orders executed on Oanda's FX Trade and I can say without hesitation that it is true, so where does that leave us (By the way it might help to actually understand the issues ...

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Interesting topic Kris! It's not clear if the above was a good thing or a bad thing for you, I'm assuming good? And do you mean you developed a feeling of certainty or that understanding and accepting uncertainty changed everything for you? Learning ...

How certain can you be that you have an edge?

I didn't say Oanda have a 5 pip spread on Eur/Usd, what I said was (referring to trading Eur/Usd with shops like Oanda) "in reality you're probably paying something like 0.05% round turn compared to around 0.012% on an ECN, that's exorbitant!". If ...

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Right, thanks.

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What are box quotes? __________________ blazespinnaker: "I do trade on a pure ECN. Though you can't beat the spread on some of the bucketshops."

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It could be because most people are capable of a bit of lateral thinking and have enough common sense to know when they don't know something so they go and research it rather than making a complete arse of themselves in public. No.....wait.....scrub ...

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Oh right, I've just seen! Mind you, being top of your own list doesn't go down too well I imagine Go undercover and don't tell anyone, lol

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'Pinchapip', lol, where do people think up these names! I wouldn't subscribe to that way of thinking either, individual pricing sounds a bit too far fetched and blatant somehow, and so easily detectable. I see what you're saying about things ...

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Good job, and some great returns from your trading, I see you hit a century on one of your accounts, impressive stuff

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Now we're cookin' Yes, and it frequently does, although Oanda's algos are pretty efficient at spotting latency exploiters unfortunately (or fortunately if you've got money with them and want them to remain solvent!), don't forget it's their game. ...

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