Another thing specific to Australian users: It only takes a day (less than!) to get funds into your trading account. I bank with ANZ and their SWIFT cut-off time is 4pm Melbourne time and they invariably batch all the funds up and send them off ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Remote Trader has charting albeit limited. The past month the demo has been really really... well... shithouse for execution so it's driven me to open a live account earlier than expected. I can also add to all the previous comments in the thread ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

AFAIK, those ips above are the order servers. I think only the quotes run through the akamai farms, so we're still dependent on the order servers on the US West Coast (I did this sort of investigation a while back, as latency is an issue for me ...

EFXGroup / MBTrading Remote Trader

Thanks for clarifying.

Currenex for Retail Clients...

^ "The banks will be using an algorithm that aggregates the smaller volume trades and hedges the net position at various price points" I was referring to BostonForex's usage of the words market maker - the market maker in a currenex setup are the ...

Currenex for Retail Clients...

No I don't need to 'read up' a little more because I'm talking in a broader sense: Think at a higher level, every market needs to be made somewhere - the exchanges make markets by creating a place where shares can be exchanged, banks create the ...

Currenex for Retail Clients...

Everything has a 'market maker' - Currenex and other ECNs have 'market makers' - they're the banks that brokers pass your orders to. Someone has to 'make' the market you trade on - in equities, the ASX, LSE or NYSE is the 'market maker' and you ...

Currenex for Retail Clients...

Yes. I think of it this way: that it's 5 x 1 unit of the currency on the left hand side of the pair @ 100,000 size lots. i.e it's ₤5 to trade 100,000 GBP/JPY (GBP/USD 1.9725 * 5 = $9.87USD) it's €5 to trade 100,000 EUR/USD (EUR/USD 1.4712 * 5 = ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

The biggest question you should ask is: are you comfortable with how the foreign brokerage is regulated (if at all).

Domestic or Foreign Broker?

Wow, the demo's just turned to utter crap. Orders for 1,000,000 AUDJPY sitting at pending for 10+ seconds??? woeful.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I'm guessing you guys house your main equipment in California given my tracert to an EFX server (which I picked up from netstat on my PC). tayser@gateway:~$ tracert 216.52.236.18 traceroute to 216.52.236.18 (216.52.236.18), 30 hops max, 40 byte ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I'm being more conservative whilst in my infancy

Linuxtroll Simple Scalping

...10 pips a day keeps your current employer at bay!... image ho ho ho.

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image 30+ tonight (now live too!). done.

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I'm assuming the screenies on this page of their website are it?

Call it EFX Omega/Remote Trader

AUD/JPY's building up some steam.

Aussie Pairs

Yeah I still browse over there, but as the Forex section is quite literally dead, not much time is spent there! Not enough Australians play around with Forex!

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volatility is exactly what you want. go the quick scalp, only take a few each day, and come back every day and do the same thing - look at my trades for AUD/JPY above (last one was an absolute ripper ). Once you master it, then I reckon you should ...

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AUD/JPY for tonight: Time Order ID Message Event TIF Orig Trader ID 20:06:43 0t5002s:06jv-00 Buy 1400000 AUD/JPY @ Market on MBTX [expiring: 14/02/2008] (1400000 traded at 99.371) Filled GTC DEMO**** 20:06:16 0t5002s:06hy-00 Sell Short 1400000 ...

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done for the day. Time Order ID Message Event TIF Orig Trader ID 20:38:12 0t40e2s:067n-00 Sell 1300000 AUD/JPY @ Market on MBTX [expiring: 13/02/2008] (1300000 traded at 100.68) Filled GTC DEMO**** 20:35:06 0t40e2s:0636-00 Buy 1300000 AUD/JPY @ ...

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