Recent content by BigBlingin

Hi HFT_Board, You asked for opinions/advice, so I hope you won't take offense by my post. There is no malicious intent on my part. You shouldn't be surprised that you were stopped out, since your stop was relatively tight for NFP. Instead of blaming your broker, you should be more critical...

In Australia, forex brokers are required to provide you with a Product Disclosure Statement. This document will tell you how they execute their trades. I'm not sure if brokers in other countries have a similar document they can provide you.

They always capitalize GAIN. What do the letters stand for? CMC Currency Management Corporation CMS Capital Market Services FXCM Forex Capital Markets GFT Global Forex Trading OANDA Olsen & Associates

A squad of 28 police officers raid the downtown Geneva offices of currency trading company ACM and seize documents, a computer and other evidence in a suspected financial fraud case. Swisster discovers the unprecedented affair, being directed by an inspector and detective for the cantonal...

FXCM has opened an office in Sydney: www.fxcm.com.au Client funds are held in Australia, and FXCM uses no dealing desk, so they are not a market maker.

Your account made me curious. I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you do realize that you can earn rollover as well as pay it. Are you saying the swap spreads between what those particular brokers pay and charge for rollover are higher than most? What brokers give you a...

That link doesn't work. The "..." in the middle messes it up. Please repost the link.

The big forex firms - Oanda, FXCM, GFT, Gain - will still be able to operate under the new rules. the bill would apply new requirements to Futures Commission Merchants, to affiliates of Futures Commission Merchants, and to the newly defined retail foreign exchange dealers, each of which would...

MF Global forex accounts are CIPF insured for up to C$1 million. www.mfglobalfx.ca www.cipf.ca

Never traded with them, but as of October 31 they are well below the $5 million minimum now required of all forex dealer members: http://www.cftc.gov/files/tm/fcm/fcmdata1007.pdf

Deutsche Bank is almost too big to fail. In the unlikely even that it came to it, the German government would bail them out for the stability of the financial system. I believe the future of retail forex is with such banks. Aside from DB, other major firms such as Citi and UBS have already...

So if/when the carry trade falls out Crown will lose millions. That's a far greater risk than betting against your average retail trader. If you win big on your interest free account there is a chance that Crown wouldn't be able to give you the funds at exactly the moment you need them.

Has anyone used Crown or another firm to successfully hold positions long term against the carry interest-free and been able to withdraw their money? It sounds too good to be true. There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Could you post a link to where they state this?

On top of that Oanda just announced that it is getting another $100 million in venture capital. http://www.fxstreet.com/news/forex-news/article.aspx?StoryId=718411fd-8bf0-43bf-83e4-0ebadd20d37e