the main problem with using the data collected from some of these ecn's and even aggregators like cax,flextrade etc is that most of the time the liquidity providers still have a last look option. That and the fact that each bank and ecn have diff ...

High Frequency Trading!

there are actually a good few ecns but with all trading, it depends on your style of trading. People gravitate towards mt4 brokers due to the charting facilities and as such would do better as longer term trend traders. If however you trading ...

Where do the big players trade?

I thought I'd just add my 2 cents here. IF the next tradable price is indeed a big figure away in the wholesale market, then unfortunately, no broker whether he hedges your trades there or on their own books is going to give you a better price. It ...

Any brokers guaranteeing stop loss protection?

acutally, it was jpm buying up 5 yards of $ against the basket, most notably cable and aud$. rumours were just spread after desks thought brown resigination might be the reason. if a rumour like that spread around you can be pretty sure the price ...

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

was a major us bank with a large cable and aussie order, they obv fucked it up

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

IGIndex are spreadbetters, that bascially means they are crooks. Speaking from experience, once you start to become consistently profitable they will screw around with your trades. Most likely, if it's taking a long time for your trades to get ...

Is IGIndex new platform gonna be good?

it was a turkish bank posted a bid at 3350 for 1m eur$ on ebs

EURUSD

true, this is little counterparty risk but you're exposing yourself to serious liquidity risk. 12 months ago, if you wanted to trade 100 lots during eu or us session you could most likely get that done on the inside bid/offer but in these mkts, ...

Trading with $1000 per pip?

EVen on ebs and reuters the liquidity in cable is not what it used to be a year ago. the spreads may sometimes seem reasonable until you realise the 45/48 spread you're seeing is only available in 1/1 or sometimes even less. If you had two bids at ...

Insufficient liquidity on a major?

This is exactly why one should always try out a few different brokers. No trader wants the same from a broker as the next. Reasons that I recommend ib might be the exact reasons why some ppl wouldn't even bother trying them out. If you're a new ...

Interactive Brokers - experiences and opinions

I understand that the majority of ppl only trade one type of product, whether that be stocks, futures, fx etc, but ppl always fail to mention how beneficial it is in these times to have access to numerous products on one platform. I agree with all ...

Interactive Brokers - experiences and opinions

I agree with the customer service but I've been with them for the last 8 years and have only ever needed to contact them twice so hardly a big deal. The platform is indeed awkward but if you're trading fx the fxplatform is no worse than many other ...

Interactive Brokers - experiences and opinions

If we take a step back first and think about what a piece of news entails. If you think of a particular piece of news as an option, all options have a price which is determined by a number of factors. With regular options, you have parameters like ...

How to use Fundamentals to make Money

the news pretty much causes the direction as well. If the news wires reported a voting ecb member saying that further rate cuts would not help the situation and they would have to look for alternatives, eur$ is going only one way

EURUSD

look at my prev post which shows the bb headlines that hit the wires and note the time and then look at the charts. In terms of whether you think news causes moves, each to their own. But being a day trader in an office full of ppl who make money ...

EURUSD

in this case it was news

EURUSD

you guys should get some news wires, in this climate you can't just trade off technicals and s&r. bloomberg headlines: 08:35:03 - IRELAND MAY CALL IN IMF IF ECONOMY WORSENS, RTE REPORTS 08:35:04 - IRISH COMMENTS ON IMF MADE BY PRIME MINISTER COWEN, ...

EURUSD

actually ... the drop in eur$ is due to snp saying it may cut spain's AAA rating

EURUSD

no idea where this came from .. it's very much a retail term. Noone in the banks uses this term or has even heard of it

Why Is EUR/USD Called "Fiber"?

curious to know, are you asking because that is the sort of volume you'd be expecting to deal or you're just interested?

BIG MONEY trades which bank/broker etc...