You mean like a liquidity provider on the NYSE who has the authority to halt trading during a news release until they can determine what price they want to transact at? I'm sure that would make you real happy... Anyway, where are these magic ...

Broker Complaints …Get over it!

I would recommend you wait a few months. The first wave of ultraportable pcs are just now hitting store shelves and there not that great. Battery life sucks and the pricetags are beyond rediculous. After Christmas the second gen devices should start ...

Forex gadgets

I'm gonna write up a market microstructure article tonight that explains in detail why spreads get widened and orders get slipped. I think it would help the misguided noobs understand things better. If its good maybe my buddy Merlin can sticky it ...

Broker Complaints …Get over it!

What would be so bad about regulation? I for one would appreciate having some authoritative body that a broker has to answer to when they participate in shady activities. Further, security of funds and minimum capital requirements would give the ...

How to make Forex better - and maybe save it from the regulators

Just so you know, exporters don't operate in the forex as traders. The orders they are executing are to lock in specific exchange rates on money they will be receiving from products they export to consumers. If their selling it is because they don't ...

japan CPI

Thats a nifty broker. Anyway, we were speaking hypothetically but your right about the eur/usd. 100 mil might only pop a few pips. However on usd/jpy, gbp/usd, and usd/chf it could do some damage (7-10). On usd/cad you could cause some serious ...

moving the market

Your a good man. Welcome to the factory!

Tears And Laughter In Forex Trading

Dude, you can't steal another forum members avatar. That just wrong.

Tears And Laughter In Forex Trading

It is. The $275/mo one directly from IFR is lightyears ahead of it though...

Which SR is important?

Maybe the market is trying to tell you something...

Broker Complaints …Get over it!

You need IFR forexwatch. FXCM and others have a free version of it built into their platforms. The FXCM one has a pretty good interface. I wouldn't recomend trading with them but the news is good. One of the many good features of the service is a ...

Which SR is important?

I don't know man, you really think they manipulate the data like that? Maybe I'm just being naieve...

japan CPI

Great post. And if those of you reading this spend some time thinking about it, you'll begin to understand why your stops keep getting hit. Imagine what you could acomplish with the 10,000 contracts moneycenter banks trade with...

moving the market

You would be very surprised how infrequently everyone is doing the exact same thing. Look what happens during news announcements as an example of when they do..

moving the market

Because the price move occured because you baught. Great you moved the price! Now what? To collect the profit you have to sell and when you do, you will just move price back to where you started buying.

moving the market

I'm not exactly sure what your asking. My assumption is that your referring to a retail broker arbitrerily moving the price away from the real market price to spike stops or whatever... It's called arbitrage. If broker A moves the price say 10 pips ...

moving the market

You will certainly move the market in off hours. You will probably move price a few pips on non-news day peaks as well. Your idea is flawed however, because while you can run the price up with the purchase, you will instantly run it back down on the ...

moving the market

If you really want to know, just compare each level with the open orderflow around the defined price. Look at the following: 08:53 GMT August 24th] [EUR/USD] Offers into 1.2835/40 now in focus after Ifo buying. Talk of option related sales into the ...

Which SR is important?

If that number comes out higher then expected, watch the eur/jpy fall off a cliff...

japan CPI

http://forexbastards.com/forum/index.php?a=topic&t=40 Post number 5. Wonder who their talking about... You have alot more influence then you think.

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