See? This is what I mean by not wasting my time. You won't benefit from anything I say since you're rather talk about what you don't understand (as if you understand it) vs being in a mindset where you might learn something new.

Profitable hedging strategies?

image Your first example doesn't make any sense (look up hedging out price risk,) and you clearly have no idea how a futures contract works or why a contract's front month expiry isn't the exact same price as spot (let alone back month contracts.) ...

Profitable hedging strategies?

This. Not only costlier if you hold over rollover, but you pay the spread on your hedge as well, so unless the hedge had its own directional edge (that is, something you wanted to trade separately, and just happened to be 'hedged' but the trade ...

Profitable hedging strategies?

Sent in a cleanup request to have LMAX moved back to the main broker forum and got a response from Twee with more info: (I bolded the keyword there.) There's been a lot of Armada promoters (sockpuppets most likely,) which would explain the droves of ...

LMAX = revolution?!?

Think you got the wrong thread there

Pepperstone Forex

Which blackberry do you have? Something touch enabled?

Pepperstone Forex

Oh, the 'slippage' I was just talking about was 'positive' slippage, not negative. That means I got a better price than I expected for my order, as the difference was in my favour. Other brokers often refer to this as 'price improvements'. If that ...

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I kinda think it was a mistake on FF's end, like *clicked the wrong button* mistake. It's usually the Armada threads that get commercialized or binned, and the new Armada thread was right below the LMAX in the broker forum... they could have ...

LMAX = revolution?!?

Anyone else notice an improvement lately with execution? I've been getting a bit more positive slippage and recently noticed that some of my TP (limit) orders are now getting positive slippage (never slippage against me on limits of course.) image ...

Pepperstone Forex

I really don't see how that would make things much better if you're looking at it from a total cost perspective. Also, I rather like that they have the same spreads for clients trading $50 as the ones trading large accounts. That's actually ...

OANDA Discussion

This is rich, someone starts another Armada thread and instead the LMAX thread gets commercialized. lol

LMAX = revolution?!?

Also, if you ever want to 'give' or 'let' someone else trade your capital, it's always better to keep the account in your name and have a revocable power of attorney agreement with them for trading privileges.

OANDA Discussion

I think that violates AML measures in place. Besides, at least with the restriction you can't typo an account number and give someone else a payday.

OANDA Discussion

Just to consider: In futures, while you can hunt around and find decent brokers that offer $4-5 RLT commissions on currency futures, the spreads are stuck getting no tighter than about a pip since that's the smallest tick size. Worse yet, during the ...

Pepperstone Forex

Was out of town and didn't get a chance to update on Friday as I usually do. So to catch up: Belated Friday Update Time! Notable Changes: I'm experimenting with code that takes in a news calender and marks times when it needs to flatten risk ...

Jack's Automated System Development Journal

for access to multiple equity markets without them bending you over too hard on commissions: interactivebrokers.com However, they have steep account minimums and charge for data. So it's really for active traders, not dreaming investors.

Brokers for trading stocks

Why do you want fixed spreads?

Best Broker for 2012?

Pepper even put a spread indicator in their downloads section when they wanted to show off Razor: (go to the very bottom of the page) url I don't think it shows anything more than just the current spread though...

Pepperstone Forex

Not even going to compare Admiral to Pepper, but if you save even half a pip in spread going from Admiral to another broker, multiply that by about 40 trades, and you pretty much have saved the equal of a winning trade on your strategy. Of course ...

Pepperstone Forex

Hey, MetaQuotes historical data isn't that great either, it has gaps in the odd pair over the last few years that shouldn't be in place. In general, if you're testing a strategy that trades infrequently (like once or twice a day, and isn't trying to ...

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