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Dollar LIBOR spiked above 6.8% on Monday, enough to send EUR/USD longs into significant negative carry territory (except at brokers that use the FedFunds effective rate like IB). url

Swap Rates

"Exchanges"? High leverage? Every FX venue offers high leverage, those two you mention are no different from the rest of the pack. vorschlag - I would question the accuracy of $2.41 in swap, especially with JPY LIBOR1 (Spot-Next rate) currently at ...

Which broker offers highest swap rates?

Get ready for a surprise when the live spreads differ from the demo spreads.

Going live with USD100k, which broker should I choose?

The liquidity is probably being dropped down a level, not executed. If your order of 100k is the best bid, and the liquidity providers up their bid to your level, you'll see the total bid as x million + 100k (in your ex, 12.1m and 5.1m). If they ...

Is Interactive Brokers really #1?

2,19 ?? CURRENCY BID ASK GBP 4.8000 5.0000 JPY 0.2350 0.7850 Looks pretty good to me.

Which broker offers highest swap rates?

Great first post, welcome to FF!

MAM Currency HF

Interestingly enough, you can get on FXi with as little as $25k these days (was 10x that amount a year or two ago). The liquidity is surprisingly somewhat sparse too. Perhaps the two are correlated. I'd recommend other venues these days with deeper ...

When small account becomes LARGE...

Your words: "esignal collects volume" No they don't. Your words: "this allows you to see who are the buyer and seller" No it doesn't. I never said you did... just get your facts straight.

Why Indicators will fail you

Both of these statements are factually incorrect. GTIS feed does not track volume traded, that is not possible. The L2/DOM feed does not actually show who is buying and selling, nor does it show what amount is being bought or sold. It merely shows ...

Why Indicators will fail you

DBfx is (sadly) just a white label of FXCM's platform. It's the same FXCM front-end and back-end. I'd check reviews of FXCM before considering DBfx.

forex account 50.000 USD

Man oh man, threads like these really make wish I was an FX broker..

Forex Spread Arbitrage

Aussie was above the daily pivot the whole session, there was no upward break from below. Or is that no longer an entry requirement?

Pivot Point Squeeze, high probability system

5pm EST, when rollover occurs. Some brokers use random times, but the institutional side is 5pm EST.

New trading day times

IB has SIPC/Lloyds coverage for up to $1M for cash/FX, $30M for securities. I'd leave the bulk of it there. I'd leave in the secondary/backup account only that which is required to offset a position in the primary account should the primary be ...

how to avoid internet outage losses?

Wish I had paid closer attention to this chart last week. Perfect setup - double bottom at the monthly S3, then a 900 pip surge to the monthly S1 (and former TL), hit both monthlies to the pip. Amazing.. image

NZD/JPY Primary Trading Hut

Multiple brokerage accounts, absolute necessity.

how to avoid internet outage losses?

There are some good threads on other trading forums about this. The best insurance is to have both cable and DSL, and use a special type of router that automatically switches when one line goes out (there is a name for this, but it's escaping me at ...

how to avoid internet outage losses?

As a Libertarian, I am needless to say very appalled by the trillion dollar bailout. With that being said, I'm not about to go shorting risk assets for the next few weeks/months. I went long USD/JPY, but obviously AUD/JPY was the champion of the ...

NZD/JPY Primary Trading Hut

Interesting, I'm of the opposite view. With the debt ceiling being increased to $11.3 trillion to accommodate this huge wave of bailouts, I don't see a strengthening dollar environment as a result. A deflationary credit spiral was good news to the ...

Why Trading Forex is So Difficult - Long Term vs. Short Term