that's the problem/beauty of capital markets ..... supposedly accurate pricing and hence the base assuption of most pricing models that assume no arbitrage opportunities because if they do exist, ppl will take advantage and bring the market back ...

Let's Trade The News V 0.4 !

that's exactly my point ... you use a retail platform whihc has a delayed feed and their software provides automatic fills. IF you're trading after the initial spike, then I encourage you to move to a proper platform like cnx. If you're using ...

Let's Trade The News V 0.4 !

all of you trying to trade news on retail platforms are just wasting your time ... you can make a bit of money especially of you're trading small size but honestly .. .whats the point. To think that there are ppl who believe you can beat the spike ...

Let's Trade The News V 0.4 !

wow, one person who hans't been suckered into the whol autoclick spike trading bullshit that most new traders are amazed by. THe only reason why the occasional person has succes with retail brokers is theway retail brokers are set up. Try it on a ...

Let's Trade The News V 0.4 !

wha'ts wrong with ig index? If your trading strategy focuses on the mid-long term ig index are perfectly fine. The spreads arent great but if you're not doing huge size then your profits are tax free ...

Recommend Broker

firstly ... while i said it mostly applies to the retail sector of the mkt i never siad you coulndt be profitable. I can think of a few ways that will allow you to consisntely make money while avoiding a lot of the broker issues that have appeared ...

News Trader proof of profits?

mostly true ... but this all really just applies to those on retail platforms. Move up into the wholesale mkt and proper institutional platforms or even futures and it's a complelety diff ball game. Can you trade news profitably? Yes. IF you have ...

News Trader proof of profits?

for the ppl that are and have been profitable trading news for the last few years (there are plenty) , I would dare say they are knowledgable enough to realise that telling anyone how and with which broker they trade with will have an adverse affect ...

News Trader proof of profits?

yes and no. Ultimately, you are not trading the wholesale spot fx market, you're trading oanda's. If you're trading with oanda, by all means use their charts, they are after all the market you will be trading. However, to get a better idea of what ...

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You really need to get tick charts from someone like ib or efx which will better reflect the mkt conditions wrt liquidity

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If your trades are med/long term that dont require any orders getting filled during periods of high volatility then any of the mainstream ecns like ib or efx are fine. If you are trying to trade aroudn news (which I again must advise against unles ...

Problem with my broker regarding the news trading!

not true .. yu can have a candle chart at any interval you wish if you write your own software, it's just a case of whether it's meaningful at such a short interval. At 5 seconds, even when the mkt is seriously volatile, you aren't going to extract ...

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you reallyu shoulndt try and trade nfp or any major news event with anything other than a professional ecn platform

Problem with my broker regarding the news trading!

it'll take time but eventually most of the newstraders here who try and straddle or get in before the move will realise that they just arent fast enough to trade in the wholesale mkt. The only reason they are having limited success on the retail ...

Broker for newstrading?

There;'s no pointtrading around when there is so little liquidty .. .the mkt will not move as you expect and all it takes is a few traders with deep pockets to push the quotes around .... and the home sales report will most likley be ignored unless ...

Let's Trade The News V 0.4 !

it's taken 3 pages but finally someone with some sense. All this talk about finding a 'good' broker to trade news is laughable. All you straddlers needs to read up on how the real market works and you'll see why the brokers need to widen their ...

FXSol slipping price

If you're trading news .... you cant get any better than a tick chart to really get an idea of the action. This is a feed from cnx and the spreads are wide due to the thin mkts aroudn this time of year

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Hotspot liquidity is quite poor round news and you'll find that spreads will go wide and stay wide for at least 60 seconds. Apart from fx futures, cnx has the fastest price updates on all the spot fx ecns so even if you're using one of those ...

Broker for newstrading?

If you're looking for a broker to screw over during trades then any number of retail market makers that offer limit orders are available. IF you want to trade the proper mkt then go to an professional ecn like currenex/lava/hotspot/baxter or fx ...

Broker for newstrading?

you need to ask yourself whether you want what cnx offers. It is a bare bones platform that is suitable for professional intraday traders. If you dont mind managing the resulting fx exposure you'll get from trading diff pairs then you should at ...

Problem with my broker regarding the news trading!