This stuff is interesting. Does it by any chance have anything to do with ed seykota's trading tribe process ? Or is it something else? Regards.

Technical Analysis Fallacy

Somehow, IB's fx accounting doesn't give me too much grief. I let the residual balances pile up. hehe. and every once in a while i convert it. The conversion is based on their ideal platform, with a spread of 2 pips mostly. a 2 pip spread on a tiny ...

Technical Analysis Fallacy

Baifu. Interactive brokers are totally awesome. Totally transparent, honest,deposit safety etc. and tecnologically awesome. In the past one year the only outage I had lasted 7 minutes(my connection remains on 24/5) and that too during new york lunch ...

Technical Analysis Fallacy

I agree ratios like 20:80 may indicate tops and bottoms.

Oanda Open Position Ratios conundrum

The legendary darkstar contributes to my humble thread Thanks. Regards.

Oanda Open Position Ratios conundrum

I have heard of Toyota's japanese braking and acceleration systems leading to 10 million recalls. Judging by that "the system" is no good..... sorry, havent heard of any such trading system...

Anyone heard of Break acceleration system from japan

As a rule of thumb, a trader should subtract 5pips from his expected trade payoff for each trade , if it's still worthwhile as a system then he may become a winner. Another point I would like to raise was people don't think of portfolio ...

Oanda Open Position Ratios conundrum

I agree with you. While the costs stated by the brokers are 2.0 pips per trade, by my experience the actual cost is somewhere close to 5 pips per trade, which includes slippage, not executing at perfect time, reaction time etc. So to have a ...

Oanda Open Position Ratios conundrum

the prices you see since 1989 are for the deutsche mark, which was the largest european currency. USD/DMM was the most liquid currency back in the day, and the euro replaced it. Hence the price was substituted in the charts.

When did the euro start?

So does this astro stuff work for any of you guys to make a professional trading career? JamesHong was quite accurate though. I'm amused. If it works for you, congratulations. Cheers.

Planetary Cycles Trading (EUR/USD)

sounds cool . fees very competitive. leverage is good too. let us know how it goes, the account opening, platform stability and all other stuff regarding this firm. Thanks.

MAREX Currenex average slippage

The total volume of FX is 4 trillion per day. Of that fX swaps are 1.7 trln. FX swaps are comprised of one spot trade and one forward trade. So to make an fx swap deal there is 850bln spot and 850bln forward. Spot on its own is 1.5 trln. So total ...

Volumes traded in the Euro?

Small investors. Interactive brokers has 5M 1 pip wide 20/M commission. For bigger size marex seems great in tier 2. BTW , would JPMorgan be willing to deal with traders bringing in a measly 300M volume per day? Since you're almost a market maker ...

MAREX Currenex average slippage

Right now 1 hour after the london open there is consistently 30M on 1.3 pip spread on the euro. That settles it. These guys are good. maybe when i reach the account minimums, i'll go for them, hehe

MAREX Currenex average slippage

mostly hearing other traders talk on forums and all. Marex by the way has been a nominee for electronic fx broker awards on fx week magazine for quite a few years. quite prominent in the tier 2 fx space. other than that they are a leading broker in ...

MAREX Currenex average slippage

not me han haward.. not me.... yet

MAREX Currenex average slippage

Marex also seem to have impressive 5M on 2 pips on crazy exotics like USD/AED, USD/CZK, USD/BHD.. 5 pips on USD/DKK .... anyway. not like anyone wants to trade arab dinars anyhow.

MAREX Currenex average slippage

Mister trader, could you please post a screenshot if you have access to JPmorgan feed of their platform and liquidity? I would really like to see what sizes they have on 25M on all majors. Be sure to edit out your screenname. See you.

MAREX Currenex average slippage

BTW on MAREX, 20M euros at 1.1 pips 30 minutes before london open. not bad at all. I don't know what sort of commissions marex charges though. cheers.

MAREX Currenex average slippage