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    Intraday?

    I think that focusing on the leverage is misleading: we should trade FX because it fits our trading style, not because it is higly leveraged. Also, margin doesn't add to costs: Oanda pays interest on your account. Besides, one should have on their account a lot more $$$ than the...
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    Intraday?

    Suppose you trade with Oanda the same size you do with futures (125k), then the figures are slightly different: 3 pips will cost you 37,5 $. As for margin, Oanda has recently made available to their customers 50:1.
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    Trading in Brazil?

    I am almost sure you are joking, but just in case... Do not forget most of Latin America has been run for decades by military juntas usually backed by the USA. Also, do not forget that the same countries have been robbed and spoiled in the colonial period of their history. I am talking...
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    Italy

    Me too.
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    Forex trading compared to Eminis

    Actually, overnight margin on EuroFX futures is 2.498 $ with Man Financial; half of this for daytrading. As the contract size is 125,000 EUR and it trades at about 1.19 that makes one futures contract worth about 148,750 $. That makes overnight margin just 1,68%. PLUSES for futures...
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    Newbie question for froex traders

    It seems that you can have MetaTrader only if you trade with a bank or a broker licensed by the developer... Or is there a end-user version free from trading accounts?
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    Vintage Issues of Stocks & Commodities, Futures Magazines

    Couldn't find any... Could you provide auction numbers?
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    amibroker help

    You must include in the formula a command line specifying that the indicato has to be charted. Use command GRAPH. If this doesen't halp refer to AB groups, or post the formula here.
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    eurex lunch break??

    When do Europeans have lunch? In Luxemburg and in northern Europe between noon and 1 pm. In Italy and in southern Europe between 1 and 2 pm. This gives a cumulated "lunch effect" between noon and 2 pm. Also, suppose you have made a good trade in the afternoon, and closed it by 11 am or...
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    Trading grains

    All Agricultural Futures and Options on Futures will continue trading by open auction and will begin trading on e-cbot Thursday, January 1, 2004 (trade date January 2, 2004), except for mini-sized Corn, Soybean & Wheat Futures, which will continue to trade by open auction only. See the...
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    Taxes and European futures

    Normally capital gains are taxed only if you are resident of the country you are trading from. Like if you (US national) are trading in Italy with an Italian broker. Otherwise, I'd say European tax would be no issue. alberto
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    Djer's Forex Trades

    Who are you trading with? What is your charting time frame? alberto
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    Make $ w/ $2,000?

    Take a look at a 15 min chart of the 10yrs Notes future: seen the last two days, you could be close to doubling your capital... How? By riding intraday trends; committing towards a good trading plan and proper money management. Trading plan and money management are more meaningful to...
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    Esignal versus mytrack

    That is: Metastock with eSignal MyTrack with AmiBroker MyTrack with Sierra Chart MyTrack with Fibonacci Trader DtnIq with AmiBroker DtnIq with Ensign. Not to speak of QuoteTracker... MyTrack has 16 days of 1 minute bars for MSFT and IBM: I have just tried it. I suppose it is the...
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    European low cost futures datafeeds

    I have AmiBroker real time version, 199 $ yearly licence, and use it with MyTrack real time data (around 40 $ monthly + exchange fees). AB is better than Sierra in that it is not only more sophisticated, but also has wider users community: you always easily find solution to your questions...
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    European low cost futures datafeeds

    Sierra charts collects data from IB and has backfill from MyTrack. Basically, you run MyTrack as backup and backfill, so no real time here: the cost is just 25 $ monthly. Sierra itself is very inexpensive: should be 60 $ yearly. You collect real time from IB, and run a backfill anytime...
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    Make $ w/ $2,000?

    Why not consider bonds or 10yrs Notes futures? You get a liquid market, you can daytrade the future, for position trading you have options on the same underlying. Otherwise, I'd consider swingtrading SSFs. alberto
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    Gold and Silver mini

    Gold and the US Dollar are (short term) inversely correlated: once the $ is weak you should expect Gold rising. Therefore, any US reports affecting the currency market are likely to affect the Gold market too. alberto
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    Measuring & Predicting Stock Volatility

    What is the rationale behind the second leg of your formula? [ HHV(H,20) / LLV(L,20) ] alberto
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    Do you tell people you're a trader?

    MERRY LUNCH and everybody shall suppose they know the company you're talking about. alberto
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