Whats up with FXDD anyways. They have FCM/NFA membership status 'Pending' since a year. Looks like they didn't withdraw their application but there is some sort of problem?

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

No, the transition is not automatic, you would have to sign the paperwork from FXCM. I guess what got effectively sold was the contact information from Hotspots retail client base. With their fee-structure i don't see too many making the switch tho.

I got a strange call this morning

Yes they did buy Hotspot retail. As a former HS client you should have been informed ~2 months ago via email. Hotspot decided to get out of the retail-business and now only offers HotspotFXi.

I got a strange call this morning

The difference is you pay 2 spreads for nothing. And if ODL really pays +ve swap on a perfectly hedged position they need to be euthanized.

Hedge Strategy

As far as i can tell, its unfiltered live data, including spikes that occur often around roll-over time. I didn't check how long it goes back really. A few months for ticks. Ticks only contain level-1 bid/ask data and their size.

MBT/EFX Quote Data

Historical tick, minute and daily data is now available via api on an alpha basis. Has been since months.

MBT/EFX Quote Data

You can email them and ask for volume tiers, but think a few hundred million traded per month (thats where other brokers start talking anyways). Obviously, you need quite a big account to archive this with longterm trading, where rolls play a larger ...

Intransparent roll over rates at MB - Who knows how to derive the from benchmarks?

High volume traders can get better roll rates (according to MB). This would suggest MB is keeping a split of the rolls from smaller traders as revenue, in addition to the commissions. And in addition to the interest on customer funds, which they ...

Intransparent roll over rates at MB - Who knows how to derive the from benchmarks?

Ah, right, i guess that's the reason 3DFX for example only has 500K for minimum capital requirement.

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

Whats a QEP again?

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

I guess its possible to use a proxy FDM and "STP" to a desk, but i doubt its worth it, atleast if both firms are in the US. They would need to come up with 2x 20mm for the new min. capital requirement, plus the desk gets the 5% riskhaircuts for prop ...

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

Twowaymarkets is an IB for London capital group. Only makes sense if they can get you better conditions than LCG directly (i doubt it - since they want to make some monies for themselfs too).

Wanted: FSA regulated (UK) FX ECN broker

MBTrading had the same spike, at the same time - it would appear they share one of the same provider bank, who had a bad tick, with Oanda.

OANDA Discussion

Yes it is possible, i did a similar thing on my own for neoticker (provide realtime data + backfill). But that is something the Quotetracker devs should take care of, for the sake of ongoing compatibility and maintainance. Unfortunately, the MB SDK ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

You can download the MBT Navigator SDK and do a small application that downloads historical data. Its really straight forward if you are fluent in a .NET language(or even VB6). The SDK supports historical data on a alpha basis - but it does already ...

Historical data question

Yes, you can display it as line-chart too - in this case i did use dots to display individual prints. You could also use dots connected with lines for example. Or any other combination of the many charting styles. They got a demo to try it out ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

You should have been filled a bit earlier. Here is a 1-tick chart for your trade (from MB live datafeed - blue dots are ask-prints, green are bid-prints): Edit: hm, the forum apparently doesnt like my 18KB PNG-file for some reason? url

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Yes i know, thought maybe in the current climate they may be more open to smaller accounts. LCG goes cheaper.

Wanted: FSA regulated (UK) FX ECN broker

You can talk to "London Capital Group" or Marex. Both offer the usual choice of multibank platforms (currenex, hotspot, ebs, etc.), they deal with individuals too, and are London based.

Wanted: FSA regulated (UK) FX ECN broker

They have got a new platform with level-2 information, tighter spreads and charge a commission. The interface looks a bit like currenex. They don't claim to be an ECN on their website at least. I guess the reason is that bid/offers from clients wont ...

FXCM Discussion