I'm happy trading through the Royal Bank, though they are a bit more expensive than discount brokers. Toronto Dominion also has a brokerage which is supposed to be good. If you are going to trade US stocks it's easier if you set up a US $ trading ...

Where can I buy stocks?

Have to be breathing? That's strict, compared to here But it's hard to see what the gov't can really do; raising reserve requirements is often a first step (in sense, forcing banks to up diligence).

Um, what just happened in New Zealand?

Good post alex..FXCM news and analysis is just one more bit in the ever-evolving puzzle...

FXCM Dailyfx commentary as contrarian Indicator??

edge - what are the deposit rates like in NZ? If they are any higher than the Japanese or other carry source lending rates (or even close), it would make sense for your own banks to borrow offshore against their deposits and lend into your economy. ...

Um, what just happened in New Zealand?

FWIW, the round number/support/resistance issue isn't absolutely necessary, either. For those with some programming skills, just write up a little program where the expected price change is equal to some small constant times the last price change, ...

Finally Naked

The big issue is just the nature of variance underlying the pair. It's usually assumed Gaussian and history and position independent, but without much stats to back it up (the research is usualy done on the very large scale, where the peculiarities ...

Finally Naked

The best thing to do is just check the facts yourself; almost all brokers now offer demo and miniplatforms - pick some different ones and watch them yourself, along with (say) reuters or even yahoo. If you can make any money arbitraging, be sure to ...

Interest Rate and interest Rates Differentials

Thanks, it's interesting; how would you model it? The indicators that label themselves momentum are mostly just price differences over a period time - more or less an average velocity estimate, but with no orthogonal component. Ideally a momentum ...

do currencies have their own characteristics?

Simplest ball park answer lies in the eur/chf chart....

EURUSD USDCHF Hedge Question

PnF's - use volatility to measure box size (over some time frame) or at least should be large enough to contain perhaps 70% of all hi-lo spreads on the time frame you are working on. And it's better work on logarithmic charts, so you are essentally ...

do currencies have their own characteristics?

I thought it was a dumb article that sounds like it was written a decade ago. If he finds rates on his platform wildly wrong, then go find one that more closely follows the rates given on on the banking system connections. Certainly FX is not ...

Interest Rate and interest Rates Differentials

Jane - lovely, yes I agree re time being an illusion (which is why I am very fond of point and figure). My problem with ticks is that I like to work on longer timeframes so the tick isn't always available, plus I'm fascinated currently by scaling ...

do currencies have their own characteristics?

You shouldn't be reading advisors to find out what to do, you should read them in order to provide arguments and counter arguments to your own thoughts in order to test them before you put them into real money. Re. FXCM in particular, I read Kathy ...

FXCM Dailyfx commentary as contrarian Indicator??

Not really - remember that momendtum is the product of mass and velocity; ccy's certainly have velocity, but thee isn't really an equivalent for mass, and conservation laws are not definable. I have my doubts about polynomial fitting - at least over ...

do currencies have their own characteristics?

Alex, you may be faced with a relatively unsolvable problem (at least on a realistic basis) because most ccy pairs seem to trade smoothly for a while, interspersed with significant (and often unpredictable) jumps. $CAD is a somewhat clear example - ...

Optimisation of a system issue

Re the statistical background, get some books out on the markets by Mandelbrot and read "Fooled By Randomness" and "The Black Swan" by Nassim Taleb ( url ), or at least the articles on his home page. (Watch out, it's rather eclectic.). But I doubt ...

do currencies have their own characteristics?

Generally you are missing the other side of your equations. Interest rates, for example, should be measured as a differential with those of other nations and then corrected for inflation on both sides. FX is all about the financial relationships ...

What do you think of my Eur/Usd fundamentals?

Different ccy pairs trade very differently. You can get a sense of this just by looking at trend lengths versus variance within the trend, or the distribution of trend lengths themselves. $CAD is pretty classical & well behaved (look at the nice fib ...

do currencies have their own characteristics?

Sure you will, Americans are born to shop. And Canadians are nice people, they'll have "dollar at par" days just like the Americans did for us back when our ccy was floundering.....

Lets talk USDCAD

I lost mine (through MIG) for a few hours, and there seems to be some data drop outs. What concerns me though is to hear if folks with other companies had similar droputs, which would indicate that the companies are not independent. In the meantime, ...

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