to understand this, youd have to understand "time-decay". time-decay is what happens as your options get closer to expiration. every day that goes by, the option is worth a little less. if you are the buyer of options, you are buying an asset that ...

Anyone trading "Box Options" with Oanda???

nevermind, i found it on their site... http://fxtrade.oanda.com/boxoption/boxoption_basics.shtml as far as i can tell, they only let you buy the box spreads, you cant write (sell) them. i hope im wrong, because this is a big ole ripoff if im right.

Anyone trading "Box Options" with Oanda???

VERY interesting!! red, where is the info on this? i cant find it on their site... without seeing exactly what they are offering, i can make an educated guess that a box option is a combination of puts and calls that acts as a synthetic bet on ...

Anyone trading "Box Options" with Oanda???

yeah, some of these bank traders make millions "front running" (putting their order in front of the big order). here in the US markets that is illegal and unethical, but in forex it is perfectly legal and widely accepted. true, but im talking about ...

questions from a future quant

http://www.forexfactory.com/forexforum/showthread.php?t=2271&page=2&pp=25 i want to point out that in this thread, where i say there is 6 pips risk free, it is really 3 pips risk free. i forgot about the exit at the second broker.

moving the market 5 pips (split)

LOL ya know what i just realized... patrick is the same guy who oddly brags about how he "called the CFTC". hahaha, and to think, i was taking him seriously for a minute there. Buddha, thank you for that moment of clarity.

moving the market 5 pips (split)

sorry man i must have missed this thread!! 1) for me to even try to explain how great a book Moneyball is would not do it justice. but i will give you the gist. do you know who john henry is? the owner of the red sox and a billionaire forex trader. ...

For The Wiz

are you going to place some big orders or something? then pull them before they are filled??? not that it would matter, it would be equally as impossible to do it that way if you can move it 5 pips, how come you cant move it 10? that would be more ...

moving the market 5 pips (split)

lets go with wednesday, midnight EST. that is high volume time though, i was choosing 6pm so you had it easier how many lots will it take you to move it 5 pips? why am i starting to sound like i believe you can really do this?

moving the market 5 pips (split)

yeah, but the best money management in the world cant win at a game with a negative expectancy! so is the system really secondary

Turtle Trading

LOL!!!! either you are joking, or you are the biggest trader i know. if the latter, then i choose wednesday, at 6pm EST. i want it to go up

moving the market 5 pips (split)

you let your inlaws visit?? LOL. not me do you even remember which book it is in? im really interested in finding the quote now, because i may be remembering something that i didnt read. i am rereading NMWs right now, maybe i will run across it in ...

questions from a future quant

LOL!!! your shady man!!!!

Forex Taxes

i watch the futures contracts on the same chart as the spot market all the time. one of my main strategies is an arb system on the futures vs. spot. have you looked at the tick data since GAIN took over at TS? i think it just happend a week or two ...

Calculating Acc/Dist

wow, where did you get Mathematics of Gambling? is your copy in pretty good condition? ive been looking for this book but have been unable to find a clean copy for a decent price. you know Beat the Market cost me $300??? it was a clean copy though, ...

beat the market by Ed Thorp

man you already know my feedback on this...GET TRADESTATION!! i only suggest VT if you absolutely can not afford TS. VT is probably the best free FX charting out there.

Monthly,Weekly forex charts

blue, have you looked at VT trader as a free platform??

Monthly,Weekly forex charts

red, what did you think of the book???

Backtesting vs. Thought Process

i didnt go to this one, but i did attend the one in February in NYC. it was pretty good, lots of vendors. 75% of the vendors are hokus pokus though all the brokers were there, so i got to meet a lot of people that i talk to on the phone all the ...

Forex Trading Expo Casebook (merged threads)