Well done, the weekly highs were hit going right into the Friday close. You must've cleaned house on those trades.

Jacko's Forex House of Pleasure and Pain

I would start with FF's calendar. Some announcements have the blue folder next to them which means there's further analysis (like this). RTN has a news overview. I'd also bookmark Bloomberg's currency news and the AU Trading Room.

Aussie Pairs

No position - neutral bias. Awaiting the interest rate statement tonight/morning and also the trade balance info thereafter. Will see how the initial market reacts and then watch for London follow-up before entering a position.

Aussie Pairs

dominicanosrus, Through which prime broker are you accessing this aggregated hub, or are you dealing with FCStone directly? What is the name of their system? What you described (aggregated ECN) sounds very similar to vCapfutures' CAX system, and ...

GBPJPY spread

jacko, How have you been handling the post-1.40 runaway environment? There really hasn't been any dip/retrace for us value buyers to enter in. At what point did you get back in after having last exited at 1.3968?

Jacko's Forex House of Pleasure and Pain

Be warned, the no-swap bucket shops were reportedly not paying interest credits, but were still debiting for negative interest positions. There is no free lunch, the very notion of a no swap account is a logical fallacy, as it would present an ...

Are there any US brokers that have no swap accounts?

Right, it was purely hypothetical. I was just testing to see if margin limits were in place.

Visual Position Size Calculator

The firms that are hush-hush about their rates are that way for a reason. It's often because their rates are atrocious, if not completely backwards/fraudulent (i.e. negative swap on carry longs, see Dukascopy and MBT/EFX as the chief perpetrators). ...

Swap Rates

A/J is clear of the 61.8 fib, just look how far A/U has flown since it broke that level. Carry fundamentals are improving, I'd keep trailing the stop-loss at 50-100 behind market and just let it ride.

Aussie Pairs

For example, a $10k external balance, standard 100k lots, 20% risk (this is just hypothetical). Regardless of currency pair (say GBP/USD) when the stop loss is small (<10 pips), the lot size shoots through the roof (30 lots). This is not possible on ...

Visual Position Size Calculator

You're looking for actual hard data on a smoke & mirrors dealing desk platform like MT4? You certainly won't find it there. The web has what you need, and also Reuters/Bloomberg.

VIX index, COT data, and LIBOR on MT4???

Nice work, that's pretty handy. One feature I might suggest is a margin rate selection (.25% - 4% should cover most). I'm not sure what it's hard-coded to, but it's giving me some off the wall lot numbers for my external balance. I would ...

Visual Position Size Calculator

My feed for AUD/USD shows 8-pip ranges (on average) on the 1-minute chart in the minutes following the FOMC spike on Sept 7th.

Dukascopy Price Feed

I do, and it works well for any trending environment (as will most any trend method). If that method was employed in 2005, it'd be a much different story.

Aussie Pairs

They were, except for the second question..

Major Pair Interest Rate

They're the same rates across any position size. Oanda doesn't pad the rate depending on size/margin like some other unscrupulous brokers. Are you kidding? Have you ever used a bank before? From my experience, Oanda has some of the best rates in the ...

Major Pair Interest Rate

You might be thinking of their old setup. They still trade through Gain, but they no longer use the separate Gain front-end. It's all integrated into 8.3 that came out this summer. They also support sub-pip fractional pricing (the spreads are ...

Which Broker?? IB TS MBT ???

ODL Prime's monthly minimum is $200MM (or $100MM round turn). AaronTrade/ADM's spreads on their CNX hub are a mixed bag, especially on certain pairs.

Currenex commissions?

Commissions on your Currenex hub are typically negotiated between you and your prime broker/white label when you setup the account. They vary based upon monthly trade volume. $50/MM is very much on the high side, but may be typical given your ...

Currenex commissions?

The easy workaround for this is to synthetically create any cross by trading equal percentage-weighted positions of the underlying majors.

Major Pair Interest Rate