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@abhave: I work with "pairs" in the FX space as a portfolio manager and am happy with my results. My experience is that you need to approach the FX markets with a far looser style than equities. No co-integration calculations and I do not screen for things like RSI and correlation in the last...

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If you want to be successful as a trader you have to identify the characteristics that make certain markets different from others and trade strategies that are suitable. Yes, you can use Donchian channels on intraday/swing trading timeframes - but not on markets that are strongly mean...

I can hear that jet fighter engine as soon as the power button is pressed down... Only passive cooling for me.

Most of the FX options trading is supposedly done OTC. Is that where you get the tightest spreads as well? It obviously would have been an advantage to trade on an exchange, but if the prices are worse...

What would you say is the currently active market center in Asia which will become the region's leading financial center for the next 20 years or so?

Posting a new poll - this is emberassing :) Moderators: Can you please remove this thread?

What would you say is the currently active market center in Asia which will become the region's leading financial center for the next 20 years or so?

If this thread is meant for exchanging ideas and information, please allow me to ask this question: Why is Oats so thin? Is there any chance this might change?

300 million ain't what it used to be :P

If you just want to speculate on EUR/USD, then 6E is fine and in many/most cases the best option. But: The ability to adjust position size exactly to the exposure you want is important when your positions is not just a major cross, but exotic or a basket consisting of more than two...

Thank you everyone for your input, I found all your answers very helpful. Yes, investors are my intended audience and - again, yes - they're not very quantitative minded :)

I have a four month track record which I'm planning to calculate some meaningful statistics on. First of all, with only four months there is certainly not much data for a Sharpe ratio. But, my first question is how long it would take before a Sharpe Ratio would provide anything meaningful? Of...

I believe Advantage Futures offer(ed?) EBS Prime.

Facebook is worth a thousand MySpaces - MS is worthless to anyone except the music industry. The potential for adding new business models to FB is insane, and the database they're building is scary. Just combine GroupOn with Facebook and you have another $10 billion company right there.

P2P WL4 is probably as likely to be infested with a trojan of as the keygen. You can work around this with virtualisation, but if you are going to run live systems you will have to have broker login information somewhere on that system - making your account vulnerable.

I use IQFeed, not Yahoo.

Just wanted to add to the thread: After forward testing about 2.5 months I am now trading live using PairTradeFinder, and I'm working only with FX not equities. I was therefore quite interested to see what Jared was planning to bring out for forex. My initial reaction was the same as voiced...

Umm... NO FOR F'S SAKE IT'S NOT A TERRORIST ORGANISATION!!! WL spreads information. How dumb do you have to be to become a senator? Pretty dumb, it seems.

rosy2, that's also the conclusion I've reached. I've only found one commercially available FIX add-in for Excel - XLFiX - and that was surprisingly expensive at 5.800 Euros for a license. As for the latency, I'm familiar with the speed of DDE and RTD having used Excel with TT before - however...