Thats a tight avatar brother!

Anticipation of a forex beginner!!!!

ODL securities. Hit me up with a PM if your thinking about moving to currenex. Information on the institutional platforms is hard to come by so I can probably save you a bunch of a hastle...

Ecns

Just as a followup, I used Oanda for about a year and was very happy with them. Truth be told, they have almost perfect interbank pricing so I use their charts for my currenex account. The spreads at news time are the only drawback (and ultimately ...

Ecns

First of all, if you have $100k to open an account you should move directly to Currenex of FXall, the only "true" forex ECNs. IB and MB's may be legitimate ECNs as well, but their reluctance to divulge their counterparty banks makes me a little ...

Ecns

OMFG do these threads ever end? Look, if you THAT concerned about your broker go out and mortgage your house. Then you can open an account on Currenex or FXall and trade with the banks as your counterparty. No broker, no arbitrary spreads, no ...

The pumpers and dumpers of forex

What banks specifically?

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

IFR has an investment bank offering USD through multiple sources. Not that its any more reliable then any other explination... At the moment liquidity is extremly light. A few hundred mio strategically offered could easily move the whole market 35 ...

35 pip spike on majors?

That would be a bad idea.

sell usd/jpy?

In short it’s the portfolio flows into a country that drive the currency value higher. Investors are looking for growth and when a central bank signals that there are inflation risks it is usually the result of an economy growing above potential. ...

What Moves Rates?

I traded with them for over a year with no problems. The platform isn't great if your into the latest gizmo indicator, but it has what matters. All in all I would highly reccommend them.

OANDA Discussion

Bad data. G20 concerns. Profit taking.

what the hell just happened?

I recently read Bernankes econ textbook...

Anybody actually read textbooks?

Unless we get some nastiness out of the G20 (which is a distinct possibility) I think that would be a fair assumption. I wouldn't attempt any preemptive strike were I you though. One cross remark out of the G-20 and you could have a 100 pip gap ...

USD JPY abobe 119 next week ????

Withdraw $1m and build a nice little bond ladder. Start all over again with the $5k...

So your brokarage account just hit 7 figures

IFR has rumors of a hawkish report. Given the USD is sitting around the highs of the session I think the rumor has been accepted by the market. Best opportunity today is for USD weakness on a benign>weak report.

FOMC & Dollar Strength

Good lord, China isn't going to do any diversification. The announcement was a warning shot to the new Democratic controlled congress that they should mind their tongues regarding globalization. If they were going to do anything it would already be ...

CHINA is selling the dollar

Its easier to think of in terms of debt/equity. When you short usd/jpy you are in effect going into debt with a Japanese bank (borrowing Yen). As with any debt your obligated to pay the prevaling interest rate to cover the lenders risk. Now you have ...

Please Answer This Fundamental Question Re Carry

We should do this every week!

US Dollar Bull or Bear for the near term (This week)

If the trade fits your risk profile, take it. Set your stop at 151.05 and see where it takes you...

Daily EUR/JPY analysis

I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, but I genuinly feel the NFP revisions are total bullshit. How is it that the BLS can magically "find" over a million jobs right before the elections? In just the last month they found a whole extra month of ...

NFP and rumors around