Recent content by parisd

Atticus, You did not take time to read me, I wrote" I am not talking of arb nor collar" that's may be not crystal clear english as english is not my mother tong also you are too experienced to beleive you may have missed or not know something Anyway I gave up posting in this forum long...

Atticus, I regret to say that despite your high level of posting and your high level of option knowledge you give me the impression to jump rapidly to conclusions saying there is no free lunch and taking for idiot people trying to find a way to collect swap interest at a low risk (dont take...

can we trade Fx Option with IG ? Tks

Acronym, From where do you get that swiss banks are at higher risk than US forex brokers ???!!!, Swiss banks are the rolls royce of banking, US forex are unregulated so where should we expect to be scam ? may be a scam pretend to be located in switzerland or in the USA, that's an other...

Hi, Most spot forex traders trying to trade the news are embarrased with large spreads or manipulated quotes just before and during the news. Can someone write about his experience of trading news using futures instead of spot forex (including but not limited to US index andlarge or mini...

Hi, Most spot forex traders trying to trade the news are embarrased with large spreads or manipulated quotes just before and during the news. Can someone write about his experience of trading news using futures instead of spot forex (including but not limited to US index andlarge or mini...

Does pair trading adjust the ratio between the pair during trading?

The original idea comes from a simple forex trading strategy being long 1 GBP/JPY and short about 1.8 CHF/JPY, that hedge is not good but allow the trader to make money if he catches a positive swing and in addition collect the differential of interest each day. Off course it is better to open...

Your broker will unfortunately not let you short in a interest free account, it cost him money (he has topay the interest for you)and he is not going going to give you that freelunch for very long, even if you are muslim (the reason why interest free accounts exist).

there are brokers that offer both forexand futures,but the problem with selling the future (instead of spot in an interest free account) is that in the future has already built in its premium the differential if interest up to expiration date, so no money to be made.

I wish you good luck in this treasure search, I am sure all your energy is focused on it. Denis

Hi Michael, Long time read you on elitetrader, your PM is off. I still beleive Cash & Carry (Standard) is a good thing, may be with less currencies pairs and with weekly or even daily adjustment of pairs weight to maintain the portfolio neutral in $. This way it should bring steady...