Well, I've only been in the business for 20 years, so you have me beat. But here's the bottom line: 1) Those who have lots of money to invest will do just fine at 50:1 leverage or less. 10:1 leverage even if they have the megabucks to invest. 2) ...

Leverage Reduction: First USA now Japan. Who's next?

It's amazing how many traders don't fully understand leverage. There's a huge difference between having a high leverage available and using it on a trade. I have always traded with accounts of 200:1 - 500:1 available leverage but only use a small ...

Leverage Reduction: First USA now Japan. Who's next?

Jason, I think we all know the FXCM issue was caused by the increased volatility in the market. The big question is why most other brokers had no problem keeping up with the volatile prices, while FXCM just couldn't. It would seem other brokers have ...

FXCM Discussion

I am a client of both CNS and GoMarkets, so I would love to see GoMarkets place a server in the NYC data center. That would be fantastic!

GoMarkets Discussion

I have a live account with GoMarkets as well. Emails have been answered promptly. Deposits have been fairly smooth. The only negative for me is the execution speed. The issue earlier in this thread with someone getting their 10K account blown out ...

GoMarkets Discussion

My terminal shows that Spread for Aud/Nzd at GoMarkets spiked up to 152 pips! That may be what caused this.

GoMarkets Discussion

Since many of us trade multiple different manual and/or automatic strategies on the same currency, can anyone explain how this will work in MT5? It sounds like we would have to have multiple MT5 accounts, one for every strategy or method! How stupid ...

NEW MT5 Seriously Stuffed For Traders Platform

Where's Paul? — Where's Paul? Haven't seen a post from him in over 2 weeks. He was doing so good with the ea. Sounded like it was very close to being completed. Hopefully he just went on vacation or something! Any status on the ea Paul? Also, ...

Trend Follower 5 Minute System

Watch the video. GBP spread widened to 70 pips at one point at Hotspotfx during CPI news release. EUR didn't go much over 10 pips though. I haven't heard of any platform freezes with HotspotFX, but I don't have any firsthand experience with this ...

Major Chink In Oandas Armor

Thanks for the video. That 70 pip spread on GBP was enough to scare the #@!$%&* out of me!

Major Chink In Oandas Armor

Check out the April 7, 2006 NFP. It was edging up for about 20 minutes before the news and then went up 37 pips right at 8:30, came back down about the same, then went back up a bit before taking a huge plunge down. You cannot count on it going the ...

NFP Results....

What's the minimum account size with EBS?

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You know, that's a very good point! I was very pissed off about the 35 pip premium myself and was looking at switching brokers, but I suppose I can afford to loose 35 pips on a 100 - 200 pip gainer and just use a bit larger lot size to make up for ...

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You will find Reuters is very slow to respond. You might want to try a Bloomberg 30 day demo.

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Would you mind sharing the name of this broker?

NFP Results....

Ok, I'll bite. What was the adjustment?

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Also, on my platform, it shows 1.8931 gdp being hit at 8:27 EST. How did you get in before the news release? Just a good guess?

any live ECN traders out there?

Thanks. When you get a chance, please tell us what kind of spreads you got and if these were market orders.

any live ECN traders out there?

Who's your broker, Trucco?

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Glad you had a good day Moe. I had a very good day too. Can you tell us what you got for a spread at MB on each pair today? And at what prices were you able to get in? Thanks.

any live ECN traders out there?