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These guys are in Vancouver every month. One month they would be selling the stock trading version, next month the FX version and then the options version. They have ads in the local paper everyday for at least one or 2 weeks every month.

Nope, have been on continuously for the past 15 hours without any problems.

Sorry, I meant it was a good move by aussie, not you. It's still early, but next meeting on 22 Jan? I will post on MoneyTec in a week and a half.

I find not doing what I should have done is worse than losing money. Too bad, it was a good move.

What's happening? Gave up already?

I'm just curious. Who are the other two market makers?

You only pay the spread once. If you bought at the ask, then the only number you care about later is the bid. If the quote moves up 2 pips, then you are even.

Isn't the HKD fixed to the USD? Why should there be much movement?

I guess you're no longer accountable to your system.

Good luck with your trading, dnaj65000. Sorry you weren't able to attend our Dec meeting at Tim Hortons last week. Since our group's first meeting, I decided to open a tiny account with 500 USD and post the activities in this account on my webpage. I don't know if you read OANDA's forums or...

Sorry, I was out of the country for the past 6 hours and couldn't answer your questions. The interbank network is made up of the bank dealers and you do pay the spread like everyone else. I trade with UBS, but also with OANDA and Saxo Bank. They are online like most smaller market makers like...

What do you consider "big currency guys"? Someone that trades 100 or 1000 contracts a day? Heck, I know I'm not a big currency guy, but I do move 50 to 100 dollars a day in the spot market. Where can you trade almost any currency pairs you want? I trade up to 30 pairs, not just a handful of...

Welcome to ET, chaffcombe. You won't find too many spot FX traders here, most of them are in stocks and futures. Haven't seen you yet on MoneyTec. You should wander over there and have a look.

Well, I trade with 3 market makers - OANDA, Saxo and UBS. I've 2 accounts at OANDA. They are popular with most small time traders that come to these forums. They have one of the tightest spreads in the popular currency pairs. The fact that they use a Java platform means I can trade from...

Sounds like OANDA to me. I personally have 2 accounts with them.

Just walk in the door and shout FX or look for a guy with only half an eyebrow (burnt off some hair while relighting my hot water tank).

Better spot, yes. But the net effect is zero since he has already booked a loss which is offset by the better spot.

What are you talking about? Saxo has 14 currency pairs listed in its free chart. Sorry, I just checked. If you have signed up as a member, you get the 14, otherwise there are 7 available to the general public. However, if you access Saxo's chart via www.forexdirectory.net there are about...

First of all, most currency pairs are quoted to 4 decimal places. A pip is simply the last decimal place. In the case of EURUSD, 0.0001 is 1 pip. Some traders such as myself also call pips as points. 100 pips/points is called one big figure. I don't trade the minis, so I'm not exactly...

I agree with baggerlord. I feel mini is still too large for the newbies. Why not start with 100 USD or less and trade maybe 1000 units at a time to see if your trading strategies work or not. If you have made any money after 6 months or more, you can always add more funds to your account.