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Why use a fx dealer at all? Given your resources in capital and experience, why wouldn't you opt for futures? By the way, last year, with some others, I opened a "size" account with Saxo Bank, using the Saxo Trader, and promptly had my profitable limit honors dishonored three times. That...

Trotting out an older post, adjusted somewhat for this interesting and relatively easy request for help in identifying which fx dealer's platform to choose. The answer is in parts: 1) Avoid exchange-traded products, where cold-blooded volatility jeopardizes your money. That means avoiding...

Are you shilling for Saxo Bank? Shill, defined: "a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others." If you aren’t shilling, you might want to read the cautionary thread “Saxotrader pros & cons” in the Forex Brokers forum of this board.

The TICS number is what the news I quoted reports, which is why I refer to it in my answer to your query. You'll see that the post of mine preceding the news (preceding it by several weeks) predicted the lower inflow number, which is why I followed it with the news.

The TICS number for US Treasury inflow from foreign purchases of US treasuries is net of sales and redemptions.

Interesting news today, August 15th, reported by AFX, on "foreign demand for long-term US Treasuries": "According to data from the US Treasury Department, foreign capital flows into the US reached 71.2 bln usd from 55.8 bln in May, beating predictions of a more modest rise to 65 bln usd and...

Saxo Bank, on its website, continues to dupe prospects into believing that, first, they'll be protected from dishonest practices, and second, they'll have "recourse" to a regulator in the event of a problem. What Saxo says is directly contradicted by what we found out from the regulator (the...

Today’s news on Nikkei 225, Japan’s stock market index, showing 4-year high: __________________________________________________ Asian Stocks Have Biggest Weekly Gain in 17 Months. . . Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks gained this week . . . Japan's Topix index jumped 4.7 percent...

continuing the above response: Futures are the only way I would trade FX, but some trustworthy veterans on this board have said that IB's cash (i.e., spot) product, which is described in the thread I cite, is a true matching system, meaning IB has no stake against the customer. That would...

Try this thread in this forum: "Pure agent against market maker." It describes one alternative you ask about.

The customer is not actually trading the forex market regardless of the fx retailer, or “dealer,” he uses. He’s simply trading the quote made by the shop. The shop is not laying his position off in the interbank market: it's the counterparty and simply is holding the other side. No...

Did you exit on Yuan revaluation? Large move that day, then, confounding, almost all of that Yen advance dissipated -- until today, that is.

Well, we're at the witching level (just before 9 am Wednesday Tokyo), so today's action may be interesting.

Whaddya mean “losers” on Moneytec? It says right there on that board, in query and reply below, from mid July (“Beginners Forum”), that its traders do very well – and for good reason I might add given their evident savvy. Here are the posts...

Agreed that there may be as many landmines as true green lights in the position, and most likely that's part of the prevailing sentiment (today). My expectation over time is for upward move to continue as caution and wariness become priced out.

Time to go long NIKKEI 225 future. I've been waiting since sharp dip earlier this year, and the move up appears confirmed and for the long term. Among other reasons, pessimism about 2005 profits appears priced in (ripe to be priced out), and the dollar appears stubborn above 110.00 USD/Yen...

Paradigm panned out (YEN up vs dollar more than 2 pct today on news of YUAN revalution), so where does YEN go from here?

Do you mean you are asking for a recommendation of a spot dealer to use? My first-hand experience of spot dealers starts and ends with Saxo Bank, so I'm in no position to answer that question, if that is your question.

We opened a six-figure USD forex trading account with Saxo Bank after demo-trading the Saxo Trader for more than one year. After a successful first week of real-money trades, Saxo cheated us out of more than 12k USD by manipulating prices against our orders and refusing to fill profitable limit...

I didn't mention regulation, but since you raise it, what exactly do you know about it? The only CFTC regulation any of the spot dealers can hold out is registration as a FUTURES Commission Merchant (FCM), which does not apply to forex dealing. (Dealing is not brokering futures.) And that's...