Define old. Don't get me wrong the swopper is a great chair and has its uses, but I doubt its of good use for continuous 8h+ workspace use. The reasoning is very simple: While getting the back muscles to work does indeed promote back health ...

Need a good chair for trading

The swopper may be not good for long term usage... at least some people complain after initial improvement with back problems, that after 1-2 years the problems come back (when using the chair all day...) because at first it strengthens the back, ...

Need a good chair for trading

Thats what was going wrong. Now it puts out believable costs. Thanks Jack&millelire!

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It's the first time I am considering a long term position with oanda, well, eurchf short. So I never informed myself about carry trades etc, I just used oandas interest rate calculator, but it seems pretty weird to me, since with most pair ...

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Ok, I'm gonna be one of the more serious posters in this thread... The topstar chairs are pretty good, and the cheapest one thats of high quality and can be recommended is the topstar open point series. starts at 125€ or something, and for the ...

Need a good chair for trading

LOL. A javascript standalone engine. Did not know about that one, thanks. The more I learn about R, the less I like it, too... The programming is really retarded for someone who's been used to program in other languages... plus, its not a ...

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my understanding now is that R is for data analysis, while the example I was talking about that causes me trouble (number of long days in a row) is actually part of specific data collection from raw data, not the analysis itself... so to speak. so ...

Best tools for statistical analysis of tick data and news events?

I've been looking into that, but I was not able to even find a solution to a normally very simple question: how do I count the days in a row a timeseries is short or long? like for example... 99 days it was 1 day in a row long, 30 days it was 2 days ...

Best tools for statistical analysis of tick data and news events?

In my opinion javascript would be amongst one of the worst languages for the job... one of the reasons why is that you are limited to a browser doing the work, which considerably slows down the process, maybe even stability... I've been researching ...

Best tools for statistical analysis of tick data and news events?

Oanda confirmed the 18min spread increase on gbp, but they said it was the same for everyone. I guess I am done with oanda if pepperstone does it for me. Yea I thought the same, open a small account and see how it goes. I will miss oandas java app ...

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I've repeatedly heard good things about them, I guess I have to take a closer look now... thanks for the tip

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on Cad news usdcad spread was higher for almost 12 minutes too... on a not really volatile market. For these news it was only 4pips...which is not that much, but still... 12 minutes higher spread, for what exactly? If anyone can recommend me a good, ...

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I made some 12min after... unfortunately not 18min after, but the spread was 7.5pips for 18 minutes on GBPUSD, and also still increased on any other gbp pair. You can see the same for gbpjpy in the screenshot... and a few spreads on the spreadsheet. ...

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I've sent a request to the technical team to find out whats going on...

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wtf? are spreads now increased on an per account basis? I am a 100% sure that I had 7.5 spread for 18 minutes... from :30 to :48 (gbpusd)

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I am using fxtrade real, european division.

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18 minutes later... the spread is at 1.8 for gbpusd... 18 MINUTES LATER!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh dear.

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WTF... it's been 10 minutes after gbp news and the spreads are STILL 7.5 on usdgbp, raised on other gbp pairs as well... is this a bad joke?

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