Justin, How much volume does MB do in a month on the currency side?

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Scex, With regards to transparency of an ECN. I am heistant to say that they offer a transparent market. In fact I am hesitant to say there is such a thing as transparency in an OTC market. How do you know that the ECN is giving you the best price ...

Market Makers & ECN’s, Is the grass greener?

Justin, Most dealing desks manage their risk so this never happens as should MB Trading. I am not terribly familar with MB Trading considering they are a very small company and there are much bigger companies that offer a better product. Examples: ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

I am sure you get into every announcement with MGforex on fixed spreads without widening or a requote. The love giving free money away I am sure. Also, you say ECN's are middle men, what are dealing desk brokers? You dont make any sense.

CitiFX Pro platform?

Okay Trader I can respect that. However, I want to know why you think there is a huge difference between ECN's and dealing desks. I will agree with a couple of things, first being that ECN models generally have better spreads. However, and you have ...

Market Makers & ECN’s, Is the grass greener?

Mike, you dont understand how this market works or else you would know why spreads jump around during news. Let me guess you think when an announcement comes out that is bad for the dollar you should be able to sell the dollar at the price that was ...

CitiFX Pro platform?

I am sorry that you think my post is out of line. However, I dont think it is. If he was simply stating that futures might be a safer place to trade currencies then I would be fine with that. Obviously, accounts held with futures firms have much ...

Market Makers & ECN’s, Is the grass greener?

Forex Savior, do you really think what is posted on the CFTC website is all the capital a firm can put up or how much the firm actually has. I agree a lot of smaller firms that stay dangerously close to the 5m net cap requirement might be gone soon. ...

Proposed NFA Capital Requirement

who cares if you can scalp with them? they're an unregulated bucket shop...scalp away

Best broker for scalpers?

I think this might be one of the worst and uneducated statements written on this thread. 1. Liquidity - currency futures do not even do a tenth of a percent in one day compared to what the spot market does in a day. How does that make it more ...

Market Makers & ECN’s, Is the grass greener?

ECN's — I am not sure if everyone here truly understands the difference between the currenex model and a retail broker model. Reason being is because most of you think there is a difference between the two business models. Currenex is simply a ...

Market Makers & ECN’s, Is the grass greener?