You can try using the demo account of a broker offering CFD's on bonds, like CMC Markets. Or you can watch the quotes on CME. Use the menu on top to look at different instruments: url

Bond Prices and Yields, where to get them?

I bet that it will be about MT5 on iPhone/iPad.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

You can open a SaxoBank demo account and use their web trading platform to see forex options.

Forex Options

Another myth. You have read Reminiscences, but you missed the fine print. At the end of the day the bucket WAS hedged. Back then people didn't know what was the actual price when they placed the order, they were happy if the order was filled ...

Order Flow - Finding cluster of stops on chart

But this is not because retail traders have a magical ability to trade in the wrong direction. Most of them trade randomly (that's why they are called noise traders in micro-structure books). What makes them losers is the fact that the part which ...

Order Flow - Finding cluster of stops on chart

True, there is a highly entertaining book, "Traders, Guns and Money", full of stories about how "sophisticated" institutional investors trading in the hundred of millions were fooled by banks selling them products or bets they didn't understand.

Order Flow - Finding cluster of stops on chart

I'm not doing an FX census. All I need is an extra edge. 3 retail brokers is enough to know what retail traders are up to. Knowing how 10% of the market stands is valuable information. Why does FXCM have such tough conditions for giving you access ...

Order Flow - Finding cluster of stops on chart

How about data from the first three of them by volume, which incidentally make available such data? By some strange coincidence, the three data sets are very correlated. When traders go overboard buying USD/JPY on Oanda, they do the same on FXCM and ...

Order Flow - Finding cluster of stops on chart

The same myth over and over again. That retail is peanuts, that it doesn't count in the great scheme of things. The reality is that retail is big business these days. 5-10% by some reports. That would make it the third global player by volume, after ...

Order Flow - Finding cluster of stops on chart

When I see people screaming BUY GOLD on every post on ZeroHedge and most other financial blogs, no matter what the article is about, I know we are getting long in the tooth. The same about ATM gold dispensers. Like I said, it was a TV news feature ...

Order Flow - Finding cluster of stops on chart

Some of us have more than just past price

Order Flow - Finding cluster of stops on chart

Boy, do I have a treat for you url url url I trust these guys, two years ago I watched live their Shanghai stock market crash call. They nailed the day it would top. Past performance is not indicative of future performance... and all that. ...

Order Flow - Finding cluster of stops on chart

Don't believe us. Try FXSoftware for yourself. I'm sure that with a $100 piece of software and your home computer you'll be able to compete with colocated high frequency traders doing triangular arbitrage using custom hardware. url Or maybe you ...

Broker Arbitrage

Well, sometimes even a butterfly can cause a hurricane :-p

Order Flow - Finding cluster of stops on chart

Of course, the elasticity curve applies to Apple too. Since the iPods are not a perfectly inelastic product, obviously sold quantities will decline with each price level. Apple is very sophisticated about it's pricing strategy. For further details ...

Order Flow - Finding cluster of stops on chart

But prices are not set like that. Producers optimize the price for maximum profit. It's more profitable for Apple to sell 10 $200 iPods than 20 at $75. Wrong. An equity stock definatly has utility (voting power). The same for all the miriad of ...

Order Flow - Finding cluster of stops on chart

50 mil will move EUR/USD by around 5 pips. Source: Oanda.

Why do hedge funds have such poor returns compared to successful retail traders?

Yeah, it's in human nature for bubbles to happen. You can't get much more experienced than the CEO of Citigroup. Let's not forget his (in)famous 2007 quote: “When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as the ...

Order Flow - Finding cluster of stops on chart

You might find interesting similar academics experiments in fake markets done with people in the past. One of the most interesting conclusions was that inexperienced traders cause bubbles. url

Order Flow - Finding cluster of stops on chart

Why not go to the next level of volatility forecasting. url The whole series: url

volatility trading