i agree that people complaining of platform freezes gets annoying because retail brokers are just covering their a$$ because they cannot offset all the losses they incur on news spikes. there are technical entries after news spikes. if you have an ...

How Did You Trade the NFP?

I think if we measure daily range on NFP friday and compare that to a ratio of deviation in actual vs expected and previous vs revision you will find a very close relationship in the last 2 years of data. the NFP still moves almost exactly 100 pips ...

NFP news not as relevant?

NT you the man! GG nice work. I took 2 trendline breaks and made 14 pips after my trailing stop knocked me out both times. There just was not a good sustained move due to very little deviation in the actual or the revision. If you are a good tech ...

How Did You Trade the NFP?

i'm getting the statements again to make sure but i think their spreads are 50+ pips on the options. i know where they trade as well and it's one of the biggest primes in the US.

Options hedge for profit

ok very good info Blue. thanks nope guys sorry. they trade for the NBA retirement fund and people like steven spielberg. they do in fact average over 10% a month for over 2 years running. they do have 30% drawdowns but at the end of the month it ...

Options on currency futures as a hedge?

this thread is kinda old but i just created a thread about the same thing. very similar anyway. i suggest going long and short gbpusd with fx options. i've seen the statements of a very successful fund that does only this all month long several ...

Options on currency futures as a hedge?

that volume data is great for finding S/R on a chart. i'm looking for a good bond trader book. any suggestions? also what is the most liquid instrument we can trade during UK releases? CAD releases? AUD? NZD?

Futures vs Forex. Who is more liquid

great data scc. thanks. i believe if we look at forex data it is going to be much more fragmented than the ZN contracts with much lower tradable volume. The risk in forex is getting stopped out on a fake market spike engineered by and for banks. ...

Futures vs Forex. Who is more liquid

that is a really cool video MD. how close is that to real time replay? in forex we didn't have time to reverse our positions. they spiked, gapped and ran. that was a rough NFP for me. Well i just talked to a veteran 10 year note trader and he said ...

Futures vs Forex. Who is more liquid

I have talked to futures brokers to learn that internet latancy is of paramount importance during news releases while trading futures products. In forex we are allowed internet latancy as there is no central marketplace for the spot forex. Some chop ...

Futures vs Forex. Who is more liquid

Hedge funds are no longer "Hedge" funds. The meaning is gone.

clearinghouse arbitrage

GG is exactly right. Hedge funds have lost their meaning in the present scalper's market. Hedge funds are the biggest players inside the spread during numbers. If you want to get your order hit during numbers you want to be pricing a Hedge Fund on ...

clearinghouse arbitrage

are the bond's spreads tighter than fx futures? 1 pip. i would like to see their order books at numbers times. if there are hedge funds and chop shops banging prices then i'm sure the spreads are good. i'll look into this more. to start off where ...

250 pips slippage on Currenex - ODL Securities

i greatly appreciate your insight but you are just barely missing my point because i did not explain well. we are relying on inefficiencies in the forex platforms. futures does not have inefficiencies. every tick is accounted for. actually i ...

250 pips slippage on Currenex - ODL Securities

i hear you Mr. Lang. the problem is with futures you cannot trade the way the poster wants to trade. people spend a small fortune every month to be able to trade numbers on Futures. our multiple liquidity providers are the inefficiency we need in ...

250 pips slippage on Currenex - ODL Securities

call up hotspotfxi and ask what they would do in this situation. i know they would give your funds back. and they would not have allowed turbo in at a fake price. this is the common sense difference in currenex vs hotspotfxi. i'm with two different ...

250 pips slippage on Currenex - ODL Securities

Samuri, I'm not a CTA yet but he could hedge with puts or sell NZD futures. Futures "price in" interest rates in their prices. That is why we cannot go to futures and sell NZDJPY and go to forex and purchase NZDJPY. At the end of the day we would be ...

NZD - A disaster waiting to happen

JPY carry trades cause currency appreciation as a side effect to their interest yield — We must also realize NZDJPY is the main reason for the appreciation of the NZD currency in general. My proof would be to look at USDCHF from March 6 to ...

NZD - A disaster waiting to happen