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I have a highly specialized C# based order entry system precisely for MB Trading. Without such a system, it's a losing proposition, most likely. What you say is absolutely correct. The in-house liquidity is quite low, and generally speaking, a Bid needs to be placed high in the spread, just...

Looking for an ECN broker with a free programmer's API which has decent liquidity for Best Bidder limit order fills. So if I'm Limit Best Bid in something liquid like EUR/USD, I just want to be filled within, say, less than 15 seconds most of the time. Not too much to ask, I hope. Needs to...

Does anyone know of a Forex broker which permit trading down to micro lots, which will also allow a British Columbia, Canada client and which has a decent API to their order entry system for EUR/USD? (non MetaTrader) Variable sub-tick spread pricing, and decent commission? I like MB...

Well, one thing is that Time and Sales or "order flow" analysis describes actual trading. Whereas Depth of Market "DOM" analysis is able to predict based upon changing patterns of quotes, in preparation for trades which will take place in the near future. For example, when Market Maker wants...

Perhaps a single venue is representative "enough" :) Very interesting, thanks. As to your comment, it turns out that T&S analysis in the 6E Futures market maps incredibly accurately on EUR/USD Forex price movements. Also, 6E Depth Of Market analysis is strongly correlated, probably as...

Is anyone aware of an ECN Forex brokerage which offers a Time and Sales via an API connection? So this is a somewhat technical question. I'm currently immersed in a high performance Forex EUR/USD trading system using MB Trading's API, and they offer for EUR/USD and other such spot...

Hi, We're always interested in having a market data feed which is as complete as possible, whether or not we can actually SEE the difference :) In my software, Time and Sales, aka Tape Analysis is automated, and so I need to have every single trade that takes place on the futures exchange...

IMHO, respectfully, you can't make money by watching price. Now there are some characteristic price movements, like the sudden drop, and gradual but inevitable recovery that give some clues. But in Forex, you do not have access to the accumulation and distribution patterns, which would be...

Well, I know Forex offers only price. And that's not good enough, in my opinion. Everybody watches price, cuz that's all there is. Maybe you have an ECN to look at but it's a poor substitute for a real DOM. You seem to think price is enough. Tell me, just how do you trade price...

Is this $500 minimum funding requirement for futures a current offer with access to the ZenFire data feed for 6E (Euro FX) futures full Level 1 and Level 2 (aka DOM) realtime feed? Seems like I've seen a $2k minimum requirement... Thanks!

I laugh when people point out how much liquidity there is in Forex. Liquidity ain't the problem. It's knowing how to trade profitably that is the problem... :)

Fairly recently I've immersed myself in the problem of trading EUR/USD profitably. There are several reasons why Forex is more difficult than Futures contracts. First of all, in futures, there's a Time and Sales. Also, there's a "real" DOM showing aggregate quotes. Now, in Forex you...

Thanks for the info, I'll check it out. I forgot to mention of course the variable pricing spreads, which appear to average down near 0.5 pips plus or minus with MB. Pricing is very good indeed. I do a running spread average, and it's nearly always very good pricing. Commish is simply a...

My understanding is that Interactive Brokers is not really that strong in Forex. I could be wrong. I've done TWS (API) in the past with IB. The attraction of MB Trading in my specific situation for EUR/USD Forex is fourfold: (I'd love to find any other broker which meets these...

After a brief foray into MB Trading's API, I've returned to using MetaTrader as the exclusive interfacing and execution technology. There are several reasons for this. MB Trading's API "consumes" a login, and clients (by default) get only 1 login. This means that their Desktop software...

As an update on this issue, apparently MB Trading Desktop Pro uses a legacy plugin technology which is undocumented. I am told they are developing something new, unspecified timeframe, which might support custom plugin development. The major issue I have with MB Trading's approach is that...

Thanks for the info. However, MB Trading's API "consumes" a login, and thus (with only a single default login) disables concurrent logins from their platform Desktop (aka Navigator) or Desktop Pro. This limit on concurrent logins has been an issue I've raised with them recently. So, by...

This is a technical question for a developer. I note that MB's Desktop Pro, and maybe Desktop (aka Navigator) has charting studies under a Tools / Plugins menu option. These plugins have a GUID assigned to them, so they are Windows COM objects, no doubt. Does anyone in this forum have...

Just for closure on this, I used MB Trading's API and was able to get execution times down in the 800-1000 msec range for Forex. This was an improvement, and I've communicated my opinion that execution latencies should be improved. That doesn't make me popular with MB Trading, but I think...

Interesting. I don't know much, but if a Dealing Desk is in between, then they can execute instantaneously, since I guess they'll turn around and get a better price from the interbank market. So one has to compare like to like. MB Trading's "FIX guy" claims that delays can happen because...