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The original issue is whether or not airlines should base charges (or perhaps just excess baggage charges) on the combined weight of the traveller and their luggage. Whilst some fat people may or may not be able to do anything about their own weight, they can certainly do something about the...

Wow, that actually made me laugh out loud!

Have you tried removing only one of the PCI cards? Try it with each of them - one of them may be faulty.

Wouldn't that destroy all those over-leveraged home buyers with the interest on their ridiculous home loans. They can't walk away as easily from a foreclosed mortgage like those in the US can...

I'm surprised you've never heard of this problem before... It was described by CFerret in this feedback thread: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=136217 and more specifically by myself and illiquid in this feedback thread...

The much reported recession can't hurt beer though... http://www.stuff.co.nz/4746005a19716.html

Same with IB - it's hard luck for short term traders who get on a big trend and want to keep adding to a position.

My guess is that it would close the trade and keep the profit as USD in your USD account, and the EUR account would go to zero - as the EUR amount bought back should be equal to the amount sold, and there is no reason for it to transfer profit to EUR as it is no longer the base currency. But...

They quote the reverse for all forex positions, but on Ideal only, rather than IdealPro. Not being tradeable, I guess it's just for informational purposes for determining account balances and such. There would be no difference in margin or interest, as IB forex trading isn't via 'contracts'...

I prefer the PC option not only because of compatability - all trading platforms run on PC, but not all run on macs (if needed to run software, you can run a virtual Windows install on a Mac, but if it's required continuously, then you probably made the wrong choice) - but also the...

The liquidity on CME isn't so great for FX futures anyway. Particularly as they are supposed to be a 24 hour market, but only have reasonable liquidity 10 hours a day. It's interesting that these new FX futures offered by ICE seem aimed at a different market - either larger players or shorter...

Perhaps you should read the first post...

The IdealPro and Ideal systems work in the same way. They both use a system of currency accounts (budgets) - rather than contracts - with the result that the margin required is different depending if you are long or short your base currency. Eg. your base currency is in USD, at a balance of...

That' the same as any endeavour. How's that ironic?

Where's the irony?

It seems that the potential to make money from these trades certainly exists for retail traders, but seems limited unless you have a broker that offers the trade as a 'spread trade' rather than having to front up full margin for both legs.

Usually the 'rollover' interest will be worked out at 5pm EST. Oanda calculates it on a constant basis rather than once a day - they have a calculator for working it out here: http://fxtrade.oanda.com/tools/fxcalculators/interest_calculator.shtml Just make sure you change the 'interest...

You'd probably best start by looking at what your broker provides access to. If you are with IB, you can search here: http://www.interactivebrokers.co.uk/contract_info/index.php?site=IB&action=Top%20Search&symbol=&description=

You could try looking at the CME mini FX contracts - they're half size and seem quite illiquid

You could use the interest calculator by Oanda - http://fxtrade.oanda.com/tools/fxcalculators/interest_calculator.shtml But of course, your actual cost of carry will depend on the particular interest rates that your broker gives you. The example in your earlier post, wherein the spread...