Maybe a hurricane over the British Virgin Islands?

CMSFX Servers Offline

Well, i signed my account application with MBTF and not efx. So if MBTF would be theoretically unable to return futures client funds, that would leave other customers completly unaffected?

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

Anyone following the Sentinel case? Its a moneymarket fund where many FCMs sweep their free clientfunds into, to get a bit more return. They filed for chapter 11 on friday. Anyways, today there was a court ruling about the issue, and thats what ...

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

Im not yet actively trading on EFX (waiting for EUR accounts), but id like to know how often trades get busted? If you read Turbos ODL currenex thread, it seems trades on multibank-platforms get busted on a fairly routine basis. And then i would ...

Question about EFX limit orders

In my opinion, platform-downtimes (and MB has 2 of them per day) in a 24 hour market are an inherently flawed concept. Off market fills on stops and limits are bound to happen. Apparently the situation will improve with Omega, but ideally a platform ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Agree, this may very well be the case. Mr. Analizer (?!) has 4 posts on this board, 3 of them bashing ODL.

ODL securities -long post

"We do not news traders who steal from the mkt or scalpers on misquotes" English is not my native language, but that doesnt look correct. Im not trying to grammar-police, but i think a "Head of Sales" should be articulate. Im not 100% sure, i think ...

ODL securities -long post

Justin: is it possible to recieve quotes through your FIX-solution?

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

What i dont like about globex is, that their futures only trade 23h a day and the underlying market 24h a day. Think about the recenct moves in the FX market and what a 1h downtime could do to your stops. I think its a good choice for daytraders, ...

Forex Futures vs ECNs

FXJarhead: They disabled the account-history, so no trades show up on the chart at all. If you had bounds set, it is likley that a had a "boundary violation", gbp/jpy did jump for 10-20 pips at a time permanently recently. If it was indeed an error, ...

What's Up With Oanda's Spreads?

Some other brokers have widened their spreads too. I guess the banks, like many other people too, are just nervous with marketconditions such as these. I was watching EFX quotes since the sell off started (altho i have still not funded my account), ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Some futures broker (IB for example) increased the margins on index-futures recently, due to the recent volatility. Exhanges alter o/n margin-requirements too on a fairly routine basis.

Increased Margin Requirements

Hm, yes, was down 20 mins for me too now. Not good.

OANDA Discussion

I got no problems in FxTrade all day. Executions are same as always, spreads are wider than usual tho. But on a day where GBP/JPY makes a 1000 pip move i honestly dont care about +- 5 pips. Great day by the way, today those with their noses glued to ...

OANDA Discussion

Justin: what happed to all the banks that quoted sub-pip prices? Last time i watched the EFX-level2 book a month or two ago, there was a lot of sub-pip action going on, spreads were often < 1pip. Now only one bank seems to quote in 0.5 pip ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I have seen this too on EFX during news. I think its very risky to try and arb it, even with limit orders and automation(for quickest possible reaction time). If you get a fill on the first order, the risk of no fill on limit orders or slippage on ...

Bid higher than ask!

Yes, it works a bit different than most other brokers in some ways, i.e.: the P/L settles in the quote currency, you have to put up margin for each leg of the trade (effectivly reducing exotics to 1:25 margin), swaps/interest is not as straight ...

Best broker for scalpers?

Yes i agree, for a scalper IBs fee-structure would be more suited. I personally had my fair share of experience with IB, i have been a customer for 2.5 years (not any longer tho).

Best broker for scalpers?

bugscope: i came to the same conclusion. Only firm cheaper than oanda is IB - in the retail world atleast. IB is bad on the interest/swaps tho. And their customer support is like a black hole, which gave me quite an uneasy feeling about them.

Best broker for scalpers?

Trader KGB: i dont think the demo quotes are representative of the live system tbh. I watched it for some time today, and i could often see the whole bid or ask size disappear. Also they seem to show way less size than EFX on the best bid/offer ...

Best broker for scalpers?