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There is a really good webcast about this over on the NYMEX website. To paraphrase it there was a big problem mentally for athletes who qualify for the Olympics to have bad performances at the actual games. Why? Their goal was to make it to the Olympic games, once they got there there was know...

I would say that anyone trading during the Asian session should consider kospi options. A rough guess would be that the near month at the money options trade about 1000 contracts a minute. I have found that it nicely "obeys" support and resistance levels, with a few wicked outliers everyone and...

Go type something like "Statscan trade balance" into google and have a look at how imports and exports break down by category. Fundamentally the price of Natural gas is the most important detriment of demand for Canadian dollars. However crude oil still has more effect on market sediment. I...

I just tried a request for quote on a 2.5 sept call on corn and got no response on my interactive brokers account. Could some from IB tell me when they plan on offering quotes for these grain options? If I was planning to trade a lot of these could they get someone over at timber hill to make a...

With US stock options if I buy a call and then sell the stock they require me to put up all the margin for the short stock plus all the margin for the long call.(I know it is crazy but what else would you expect from American regulators?) If I do this with a Canadian stock and do I have to put...

I hear ya brother! just be careful to stay in your own weight class

I meant "now" when I started writing the email, but I knew by the time I posted it would look bad. I decided to punch out of my hypothetical fly by the seat of my pants paper trade at a 5651 before the 8:30 news. Have a look at K200, it reacts very well to this sort of support/ resistance...

How about a short at 5653? Looks like a bounce off resistance. (I know it looks like after the fact but I have other things to do...)

No not the case at all..... You see in the States when ever someone does not like something they get together with like minded people. They decide that there problem is "unamerican" and they demand action. Next they get a petition together and you have the birth of prop 5623b, to be voted on...

TN, IB is setup for forex pair cash trading, as I have made many trades myself. Also I think you need to refine your knowledge of how a futures contract works. You have an understanding of how futures contracts are settled, but I think a little observation would change your perspective as to...

I have used IB since Dec 2002. They didn't have forex back then. I have traded mostly futures and futures options in the mean time. In my limited FX trading I have found the fills to be really good, often being able to by on the bid. Also in fast markets i often get a better fill than my limit...

You could check out http://www.alphatrends.blogspot.com/ http://www.trading-strategies.info/ for some good free info

Not to be too critical but can you see the juxtaposition in trying to find a Canadian broker to trade currencies? I don't think there is such a thing as a Canadian FX broker. If you have a lot of money the big banks will let you get in on 15 pip spreads. I have worked with some old timers in the...

I just tell people I work with financial derivatives- you know interest rates, currency that sort of thing. Then they ask how many customers do you have, to which i reply " I many customers but I sell to them through a centralized electronic market, so I don't always know who they are". And if...

I don't think that there is any such thing as a reasonable prediction when it comes to oil. I oil is produced at the current rate it won't be long until we see $20 per barrel prices. However if Gulf shipping routes get cut off then we are easily going to hit $100. If you want a trade out of this...

Funny I was just looking at a dax chart thinking to would find resistance at 5500 on the future. So much for that idea!. I think that we are looking at a week of classic summer trading and the dax will end up more or less flat on the week. I am looking to fade moves using options, although I...

There is a good site with information about the Ontario spot market, just search along those lines and you'll find a wealth of knowledge

I haven't thought this all the way through yet but is there a way to be long Canadian dollar volatility by taking equity option positions on a stock that is traded in both US$ and C$ such as Nortel? If that isn't the way to go about it is there a better way? Is there someone out there who...

The problem with using CME futures is that the contract is too big at C$100,000 to trade. I would recommend using idealpro with US$25,000 lots. Right now the $C is at 0.8830. If you have C$84,978 (US$75,000) you could; sell C$28,313 at 0.8900 sell C$28,313 at 0.9000 sell C$28,313 at...

I have a issue with you saying you want to completely avoid speculating. That isn't the issue here. You have to have exposure, there is really no ideal exposure. Still though I think it is best to be proactive. I think you should find out what major resistance levels are and buy and sell around...