4! Whereabouts? GFT? I thought you switched to HotSpot or some ECN awhile back..

NZDUSD Discussion

Good job on the short Dutch, and my hat's off to you for paying these spreads. I'm seeing 6-13 wide throughout the day, liquidity is taking forever to come back to this pair. It's been E/U, U/J and the futures for me (I'm a bit of a spread snob ).

NZDUSD Discussion

Sydney/Sunday gaps are typically faded, but this one could play out for a while, we'll see where europe takes us. The China news is good, but no stimulus/bailout package has yet to change the trend for any appreciable amount of time.

NZDUSD Discussion

Surprise 75bp cut, Aussie rallies 3.7%. Surprise jobs gain, 44k over estimates, Aussie falls. I feel badly for any fundamentalists/non-contrarians.

AUD/USD

Interesting. All I can say is that on the NY front (and this is mostly pre-2008) the competition to get on a desk anywhere is obscene. Some of my acquaintances come from the highest of academic and experience pedigrees, and they can barely get a ...

How to be a trader for a company?

Is this a joke? You make it sound as if Barclays will let anyone walk in off the street, give them a trading terminal, and let them trial trade for a couple days on the house. I'm sorry, but that's insane. That might be the case for a run of the ...

How to be a trader for a company?

Fantastic. Do you have anything on-topic to add to the discussion?

95% failure rate?

What does that have to do with my quote? 'Guaranteed return', do you realize what a joke that is? 'Some island', wow..

95% failure rate?

Cost of trade (spread) relative to similar costs in other tangential products (futures), only 2 candidates: EUR/USD and USD/JPY. To all of those actually paying these 5-15 pip spreads in other pairs, thanks for keeping the market liquid.

If you could choose 4, 6 or 8 pairs, which would they be?

There have been a few actual studies released over the years that confirmed the 80-95% failure rate. I believe the most recent was done by an accounting firm analyzing the tax returns of all of their trader clients. Alas, I don't have the link handy ...

95% failure rate?

IB

Is Duka A Marketmaker ?!!

Keep in mind that they were a dealing desk from '03 - '06: url I'm guessing that the "transition" from DD to ECN was more or less a re-dressing of the frontend, and little changed in the backend. Also, check out their site from '00 - '02 if you ...

Is Duka A Marketmaker ?!!

You'd simply trade the direct pairs in the opposite direction of your original trade in the amount of your P&L (for P&L >$25k USD). If trading cross rates, you have to convert both sides back.. It is unnecessarily complicated, and we haven't even ...

IDEAL PRO is driving me nuts! Please help.

I've gone over his numbers, and I think he's drunk on maple syrup again (inside joke). fxterrapin, Please tell me my last PMs were wrong, otherwise you might have me calling into question the whole mantra of 'German engineering'.

IDEAL PRO is driving me nuts! Please help.

The Aussie sold off much more yesterday, they're just now coming into line. Dow and Aussie are now off equivalent amounts for the week on a % basis. image

AUD/USD

Both Ideal and IdealPro can be used to convert. Orders under <$25k are directed to Ideal, that is the only difference. *** fxtp, What was the trade date? (you didn't answer my pm )

IDEAL PRO is driving me nuts! Please help.

Agreed. I'll still take it over .Net though.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I had a data outage via QT for about 30 mins, not sure what happened, as soon as I logged into the Nav everything was fine, could've been QT.. What was your issue?

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I absolutely detest apps which require .Net, it just seems like sloppy coding to me, the fact that they couldn't do either a standalone executable or java. Never had a crash with QuoteTracker in years of using it, typically with 2-3 simultaneous ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Those spreads are the same spreads in the ECN space at this time (except for EU, that's a bit tighter 1-2), they've been wide ever since the Lehman bankruptcy. In fact, a 4 pip spread on AU is better than what I'm seeing on a number of ECNs.

Ikon Royal spreads