Recent content by waelmg

Ivanovich, do you use 50% of you account size as a stop? or 50% per trade size? if it's the latter then what percentage of your account do you use per trade? Lastley, can you clairfy the margin you use 20:1? thanks in advance

any one from Ottawa? how is the Otttawa Office? and for those Ottawa Swiftees, what happened to Calvin?

Alcan might bid for Acoa http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2007/05/25/alcan.html

Thanks guys for all the replies,

i wonder if someone can explain to me what hedging,having a trade in opposite direction, is used for? assuming that the gain in one direction will balance the loss on the other, where is the benfit her? thanks

Jorge, what do u mean by thi "There are so many vendors out, preparing connectivity to IB/MBT and other brokers like" are these advanced order entry systems for mbt and ib spot forex or, automated trading systems?

Steve, i noticed that, on the demo account at least, that the spread go inverted quite often in fast markets. eq EURUS 1.2708-1.2704 Is this situations tradable, i.e can customers get fills on those inverted spreads?,

The Problem with Swift is not just that the training is useless. it's useless ofcourse but also they make it next to impossible for their trainees to succeed. Since most of the trainers actually know nothing about trading, they have unrealistic expectation from the trainees. For instance they...

Ivan, i wonder if your IFRmarkets feed is different than the one provided for free by FXCM ? Thanks

exactly DRT, i hope Alexandra will go short soon :)

no, but they won't transfer money out of the account to a US bank account. - if they ask for withdrwal, they can only send it to hungary, other wise it would have been very easy to anyone with foreig relative to evade Uncle Sam :):)

Hello DownRiver, i wonder if u can explain to me the relation between the EC FX volume and the spot. do u think that the futures' volume is a good broxy for the spot ?

DownRiver, how u gonna watch the order flow? i mean with no access to transaction volume Thanks

and how can we know about option barriers ? also about the volume, i know it's OTC market but why platforms like FXALL and currenex won't post volume traded through them? Thanks