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Hi, How do people use XAU (goldspot) along side with trading Gold stocks? Thanks, smiley486

Hi, Are there any traders here focus only on equity arbitrage trading? In terms of takeover conditions or preference shares. Thanks, smiley486

Very interesting. Which broker do you use? Was there a particular reason you entered when spread was 46?

No really clear troughs and valleys. Was there a futures expiry when it went to 0? Do you think there is a viable method here for making money?

I guess what needs to be done is graphing the spread between the currency future and the currency spot. We can then look for peaks and troughs for a high probability spread trade. How did you figure out 0.0057 was a good spread to enter?

I believe that is the only risk and with the currency spot and futures highly correlated, then i'm sure it is possible to do this spread trading. Please pm if you want to work on this project with me. We could test all the different currency futures / spot. I know people who do the...

If only holding the spread for 24-48 hours. I think there is possibility for profit still as cost of carry is not alot.

No i have not looked at it yet. Is it a liquid market? Do you trade CME currency options? Where am I able to trade these? I was looking into the spread trading of futures and spot currency.

Do you know how to calculate the cost of carry?

I just want to make sure that i am thinking this correctly. If for example, I buy 1 ADZ8 (Aus dollar Dec8 contract, $12.50 a point) and sell 125,000 spot AUD/USD with a spread of 70. And after 1 day i unwind at a spread of 52. Will this still make money? Or is cost of carry too much...

Hi, Has anyone looked into this? or could also be called pairs arb trading? Thanks, smiley486

Hi guys, I'm located in Kellyville, Sydney but my day job is at Wynyard. I'm a young 23 yr old trader and would love to network with other traders from Sydney. Thanks, smiley486