Recent events haven't persuaded you to change your long bias?

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

Welcome back, and well done!

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

My perspective is that I've been ignoring IG for decades. Firstly because for a long time they provided no automated trading API. Secondly because when they did get around to providing such a thing it wasn't up to much. However following D1's ...

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It does indeed. Here Islander's "Selling Climax Candle" from the 6th. (Time is UTC-1h in this one) Other spreadbet brokers behave similarly. Whether that's a "problem" or not does indeed depend upon ones perspective, but at the very least forewarned ...

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Following a previous conversation with D1 about IG spreads, and further to the CFD versus futures debate, here's IG's DAX quotes from around 13:30 UTC today. The spread is fixed at 1.0 but there are some noticeable gaps!

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An intriguing comment. I'm certainly grateful to D1 for his "stream of conciousness" reporting. Now I'm curious why you seem not to be. What more do you expect?

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

Thanks for the info, and the enlightening trading demonstration last night! As per my tick chart above, the spread on many flavours of MT gets a lot worse than 2.4 around news time. I'll check out IG more closely than I have in the past.

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A quick question D1, once you've got the beers in. I assume you're not trading using MetaTrader! IG's web platform? If so do you have any feel for what their spreads/lags were like around the time of the recent news from Ma Yellen?

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

I'm watching with interest, but my fingers are nowhere near the "Trade" button. I've made it a habit to be flat when big news is announced!

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

For any MT4 spread betters out there, a recent FXCM live spread history:

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Likewise. Thanks.

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

In which case might we perhaps become FF buddies?

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

1.0 fixed at GKFX. Minimum 1.0 variable at FXCM. This is the last NFP:

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

There's also: SB = Spreadbet account MT5 = MT5 account!

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I noticed that, and it puts a spanner in my own works just when things seemed to be going so smoothly: url One of my many minions successfully traded the DAX after 9:30 GMT on the 15th. Where does that leave us? I'll let you know if and when KPMG ...

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I got an automated reply this morning to the email I sent yesterday, for what it's worth. No answer from the "hotline" however. For a blow by blow account see: url

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