Recent content by gfrank

I see that Oanda just raised a $100m financing round of venture capital from NEA, a Silicon Valley venture firm. So it seems they're now better capitalized than the others. That had been a concern of mine.

Any comments on where one can find the best interest rates payable on carry trades? I've noticed bid-ask spreads on THB interest as wide as 6%-21%.

I'd appreciate anyone's impressions on how these three retail FX brokers stack up. Main feature I'm after is to trade wide carry spreads, in 'exotic' currencies - eg. TRY, ZAR, BRL against JPY, CNY, SGD. Mostly trade only in spot mkt. Thanks

I'm looking for a code snippet (doesn't matter what language) to figure out what option or future symbol to use given the nearest certain expiry date and strike price to a stated date and price. Does anybody have something like that? I'm using Matlab and want to write some code that will...