BTW, Ikon live chat just told me commission is $20/m per side - not $10. Spreads are good. I hate the orderentry-form of this viking platform tho. Unfortunately its apparently not possible to use the "classic" currenex frontend.

ECN Brokers

It is indeed a bit confusing. There is Ikon-GM, IkonFX.com, IkonCapital.co.uk and then Ikon-Royal.

ECN Brokers

Wouldn't have thought that is possible in the EU. Soliciting customer funds w/o license - thats worse than Cyprus.

CitiFX or FinFX - Convince me

$10 is dirt cheap - does this involve a minimum monthly volume quota or similar, or is this rate available for every one? Is this on the viking platform or their Platinum thing?

ECN Brokers

FinFx does not appear to be registererd with the finnish regulator. url Make sure what they are doing is actually legal (by asking the finnish regulator or the ombudsman) before you send them cash - might be regretting it otherwise.

CitiFX or FinFX - Convince me

"interactive, hotspotfx, all the bucketshops etc ... all crap" I think the OP is on a goose chase here. You think singlebank portals or wholesale ECNs are that much better for 5-10mm trades than those? Maybe you can save a few tenth of pips in ...

broker for high volume traders

Charts are based on the bid price, you bought on the ask price.

Did it happen to you: Stop being hit even if price is not bid

Yes, i dont know what it is with usd/jpy and retail - the average Oanda customer is heavily long since atleast May last year, too. Every other pair is around 45% - 55% net long/short, but in usd/jpy the Oanda-customer knows only one direction...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Bloodbath in usd/jpy during rollover - hope noone is caught in a long

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

No, but for example the "MBT stoled my monies" person from above..

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

You can read the Oanda forum, there is quite a bit of whining about it too. Duct-taping MT4 to an existing solution rarely appears to work very good. Dukas apparently gave up on this. Its more of a workaround than anything else. MT also seems to ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

They can do a whole lot if they so please. They even made the swiss big-dick investment-bank UBS pay $780 million and give out their customer list. Imagine what they can do to a PO-box in belize.

JadeFX Lesson

I meant market-access to european futures/stocks rather than an MBT UK-presence (or where ever). I understand Penson could handle this easily.. Did you stop offering bond-trading? Cant find anything on the new website.

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Justin: will MBT ever provide european market-coverage (eurex, liffe, stocks etc)? Ross D. told me "soon" - but that was 2 years ago.. Will you start releasing infos/stats on your fx operation, like some other firms recently started doing (gain, ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

The charts are based on the bid-price. If either bid- or ask-price, or their respective size changes, you get an update. If either ask-price, bid-size or ask-size changes, you get a new tick but no price-movement on the chart, just an increase in ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Its neither, tickvolume is just the number of ticks that occured during this bar.I.E. if price changes 10 times during a 5 minute bar, it will have a tickvolume if 5. It has nothing to do with volume (neither traded nor quoted).

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

WRT to hotspot, it is possible to trade < 500K, but there is a minimum ticket fee, and marketmakers are only required to set their minimum fill amount to a maximum of 500K - so all quotes you see may not be filling smaller orders, while they are ...

CitiFX

There appears to be confusion about that. Im arguing with the tax authorities at the moment just about this (due to a recent change in local legislation). I would get favourable tax-treatment if it were a derivative contract - however they insist ...

Broker Challenge "NDD/STP" vs. True "ECN" and "Mkt Mkr" broker...

Deltastock: fx spot is not a derivative contract.

Broker Challenge "NDD/STP" vs. True "ECN" and "Mkt Mkr" broker...

You sound pretty dense. Of course orders on their platform only affect prices on their platform. What did you expect? I could post a limitorder for 100 C on the NYSE between the spread. Yippie, i just changed the spread of a stock of a $140 Bil. ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction