Lets get logical here for a moment. Lets say you buy 2 identical boxes, 1 hit and 1 miss. The probability of a miss is simply (1 - probability of a hit). And how do you expect to make a profit on this and/or deduct any information? To see the impact ...

Oanda Box Options

Oanda uses standard optionpricing theory, and add their own twist for intraday optiontrading/vola-forecast. Generally you will find that the more time to maturity, the closer the payout is to fair value. They deduct a safety margin, which gets ...

Oanda Box Options

I take it you guys are talking about assymetrical payouts for aequidistant strikes? You cant derive any information from that. Read up about optionspricing

Oanda Box Options

capitalist88: read those papers about exotic options or use a service like superderivatives.com for optionprice calculations.

Oanda Box Options

IMO Oandas Box-Options are quite good. Trading them is not as obvious as trading spot tho, and require an understanding of options. Interested people should google for papers about "american barrier" "no touch" "one touch" "binary" "option". Google ...

Oanda Box Options

"I trade 5 lots (1 lot = $100,000)" No, 1 lot GBP/USD is GBP 100,000 / USD 197,000 "Commission value = $5 * 5 lots = $25" Commission per side is ((197,000*5)/100,00)*5 = 49,25USD You will pay that when you enter and when you exit the trade. Net ...

HELP PLEASE: A worked commission example

You can look at Interactive Brokers, MB Trading and Open-E-Cry. There are plenty more, those are the ones i looked at. Open-E-Cry has a good frontend (IMO) and charting included. MB has no charts, but free data (altho limited number of contracts), ...

broker for indexes futures (nasdaq, dowjones, s&p500..)

Saxobank has vanilla options, an of course you can trade FOPS on CME throught the broker of your choice. Oanda has their own flavour of binaries.

Forex Options

Highway: I dont have anything against switzerland, and i do not try to flame the country itself, if that is your impression. I have often been there, since i live not far away from it. Its a very nice place to live. I also do not know WHAT you do, ...

NorthFinance egold withdraw warning

Ok can you tell me the name of the agency/authority that regulates FX in switzerland?

NorthFinance egold withdraw warning

The fact remains that the retail FX business in switzerland is not regulated AT ALL. Any nutjob can open a website over there, licence Metatrader (or, failing that due to lack of funds, act as introducing "broker" to another such outfit) and is good ...

NorthFinance egold withdraw warning

There is ABN Amro, but their retail platform is only accessible to people from germany, austria and switzerland. Other banks do not have retail offerings that i know of.

Looking for a broker & stuff

No, you dont have that insurance at any FX-broker to my knowing.

Looking for a broker & stuff

FXAll is for institutional participants only, no chance to get in with 10.000 USD. If you are worried about interest/swaps (this is how i read your posting), you could check out Oanda. To my knowing, they provide the best swap-rates around for ...

Looking for a broker & stuff

USD/EUR would be 1 / EUR/USD. More sophisticated charting-software like esignal or neoticker can do that.

Question about a charting services

Id scratch Switzerland from that list.

NorthFinance egold withdraw warning

Mind giving some details? Whats the minimum dealsize, minimum monthly volume, commissions etc. ? Regards, Shrike

[survey]choose the broker - depends on capital

Id stay clear of stop-orders on the hotspot-platform. HotspotFX-R is basically the same technology as their institutional platform (which is execution only, no stops supported) with what seems to be a cheap hack to support stops for retail ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Some marketmakers agreements explicitly forbid broker-arbitrage tho. Personally, i wouldnt want to rely on such a method. Legit or not, you are makeing money at they expense of your broker, this just calls for problems. In my opinion a trader should ...

How to profit from your broker

The desk gives you a quote, and you can take it or not. If you take too much time thinking, you will get a requote. Theres some special lingo involved. I think theres an article on investopedia about it. I never placed an order via phone myself, but ...

Alternate ordering methods