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From Euromoney's Weekly Fix. “I think what surprises many people in the market is just how prepared Asian corporates are to sell vol, sometimes as part of their hedging strategies and as a means of gaining some yield,” he says. “People continue to look to pick the bottom. But a real...

weak currencies traditionally have high interest rates - so the positive carry can be eroded quite quickly. Think of the traditional response by the authorities in times of stress. The win/win comes when you get a strong currency with relatively high interest rates - just look at ASUD, KWD and...

They do sometimes call it scalping, more frequently sniping. What gets the sell-side's goat is/was latency arb and the fact that they could get picked off when they were streaming prices to so many venues. A great one was seen in USD/CAD where someone would put in a spoof bid on Reuters, and all...

I assume (only assume as I don't know the answer), that because the option expires weeks before the future (talk about a screwed up contract), that they can't cancel each other. Clearly the buyer of the option will exercise it and cover it and I guess you'd have to. Think unless someone used...

we announced a site last november called www.yoursmineshag.com. Thinking of rebranding it at the mom.

Yeh, sorry about that. Anyway, volumes look unimpressive, but don't shoot the messenger. I've been asked to reconsider who FXMS is aimed at and whether it addresses some of the issues faced by certain groups of market participants. Open access = fair and level playing field? Dream...

Volumes are non-existant. There's an article on Euromoney's Weekly Fix asking if it's 'squeaky bum time at FXMS',. http://www.euromoneyfix.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1341324&PageID=3449

The swap rate is not in any way a predictor of where a currency is heading. It is simply a mathematical reflection of the two respective interest rates. Swap = spot rate x (ir diff/100) x (days/360) “With tongue in cheek, it could be said that spot dealing in currencies is the preserve...

what's that all about then? Has it been getting stick stateside? http://www.fxcm.com/news-release.jsp

See Euromoney's Weekly FiX. http://www.euromoney.com/article.asp?PositionID=1790&ArticleID=1241454

Euromoney's Weekly FiX column focuses on retail FX this week. It says the NFA issued an "Investor Aware" notice following action it took against a Boston-based company pushing orders offshore...

might be a bit pricey; it's used by a vast number of banks and also buy-side players. www.superderivatives.com I will add that I am slightly biased, as I did consultancy work for the company for nearly 5-years, but it is the de-facto benchmark for option pricing. BE LUCKY!

von dir, shag!

It was posted in the Weekly FiX column. What’s the score with dbFX and FXCM? Deutsche Bank’s decision to launch its dbFX platform for retail FX clients back in May seemed a well-timed move to capture business from what is a rapidly expanding and important market segment. The bank...

just received this: anyone know anything? YoursMineShag.com – A New Platform for Today’s FX Market November 9th 2006 London: YoursMineShag™ today announces the launch of a completely new FX trading platform to meet the needs for all participants in the huge global foreign exchange...

What’s the score with dbFX and FXCM? Deutsche Bank’s decision to launch its dbFX platform for retail FX clients back in May seemed a well-timed move to capture business from what is a rapidly expanding and important market segment. The bank certainly didn’t play down any suggestion...

You can always leave an order in the cash market as an EFP. Most good brokers have the facility to do that if you are worried about the market gapping between times CME is shut and cash market is going. BE LUCKY!

No, sorry I don't off the top of my had and my feeling is that such houses are only really interested in the big guys. However, they are also providing streaming prices elsewhere to capture oder flow and margin requirements at Oanada, Saxo and the like (here in Europe) are very low.

If you think about it, the futures price has the cost of carry built in. If you trade OTC, you have to roll the position over if you keep it open and sometimes that will be in your favour (ie long EUR vs USD) and sometimes against you (ie long USD vs EUR). Oanda (www.oanda.com) pays realtime (!)...