There some brokers who offer CFDs through Metatrader (with futures as the underlying instrument) - but not as direct access to futures exchanges. There are some limitations to MT4 that makes it unsuitable for futures trading, for example there is no ...

Problems finding good futures broker for MT4

You sell at the bid price and buy at the ask price. You pay the spread only 1 time.

are you stopped out at bid or ask price?

You can do the exact same thing in EFX remote trader. Altho, it appears that development of this platform is on hold, they promised alot of features like API and server-based scripting support for the beginning of the year, since then nothing much ...

Question on order execution with MBTrading

Pipstar: for example global futures has very low intraday margins, and they run promos with evben lower margins on a regular basis.

Interactive Brokers or ????

At IB you have to pay margin on both legs of a trade if the account base ccy is not involved, for example: your account is in USD, and you trade EUR/JPY will increase margin requirement to 25:1. A EUR/USD trade will be 50:1 tho - since one leg is in ...

Interactive Brokers or ????

MB can set you up with a second login to the same account, so you can be logged into Ninja and the Navigator at the same time.

ninja/mb trading problems connecting

The Feds are spread thin on this, since W put all the focus on 'Homeland Security' white-collar crimes aren't a priority, what little manpower is left seems to do mortage-fraud only now. url I still hope some states-attorney or who ever puts a ...

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

No, this procedure will only determine what happens with the monies. If there will be a charge or a trail is a seperate issue.

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

Its pretty easy to figure out how his system works from his last 2 calls alone (the gist of it anyways). Your challenge is based on pure luck tho, looking at ~10 days of a system that trades the whole year is not really significant.

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

There are future brokers that offer $500 or even $300 intraday-margin for EuroFX - thats 250:1 and more. Totally insane..

Interactive Brokers or ????

Hi, i am an eSignal customer, and i have no complaints. I have read many threads (on another board) that futures and stock quotes are slow, but i dont have a problem with FX quotes. HotspotFXr data will cost an additional $20, so all in all eSignal ...

HotSpot & eSignal

jleblang: do you have an ETA on the historical data?

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Saw that too, was definatly an Oanda specific move (nothing on Hotspot or MB). Question is, if they undo executions on those prices or not. P.S. was a 35 pip spike, check it out on Onada -> FxLabs -> FxCompare (was a few minutes after the NFP figure)

why it is not safe to use stops on Oanda

If you place a GTC limit oder, it will stay untill its filled completly at your price or better. If you place an IOC limit order, it will either be filled instantly or else it will be canceled immediatly (if there is not enough size available at ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Its the banks settlement procedure. If you are european customer, you can see in the backoffice what amounts are currently 'On delivery' and what deals have already settled. Look up 'tommorrow next' on investopedia.com for details.

Hotspot

Should be 'homines erecti' tho

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

fxtrader42: that must be DB's retail rates - even if i go to my bank at home (or if i buy in USD with my eur cc) i get a way better rate than that. DB themself can get it on the normal interbank market - they can just not roll a spot transaction and ...

Physical currency exchange with Forex Brokers

You can do this with Oandas physical delivery service - its called FXGlobalTransfer. You will pay a flat fee of $25 per transaction and you can deal on the usual Oanda spreads (0.9 pips for Eur/Usd - instead of a few hundred pips spread you pay ...

Physical currency exchange with Forex Brokers

In my opinion ABN Amro (Oanda whitelabel) did it right, they offer good spreads + good customer support. Everything is very simmilar to Oanda. Except rolls and interest rates are worse. But in essence i agree, they mostly try to use their good name ...

Citi FX