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That was my question, wintergrasp. But based on Xela's answer, I think I understood. If I made 10k, it would be from 1 or more traders that went in the opposite direction.

I thought that looking at volume for EUR/USD futures doesn't really help, because it just follows the spot price, and arbitrageurs make sure that it does.

I read that both in forex/futures when you enter an order, if you are in the trade winning 50$, another trader is losing 50$. Is there always this pairing of your orders being done? Also if for example you buy corn futures 1 contract, and you are paired up with another trader who is selling...

According to several reports there was a positive bias in EUR/USD for this week. After the fed decision to increase rates by 0.25 EUR/USD has been going up, though I would expect EUR/USD to start declining. Could it be either that: a) There are other factors in play b) The rate hike had already...

If that's true their website hasn't been updated then

Anyone here trading forex with Interactive Brokers? Is it correct that a) minimum order size is 25k, and that b) according to this page https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=marginnew&p=forex the leverage for a EUR denominated account is 3% (33:1). Is it correct to assume that this...

I have a certain bias against some pairs, and think that if someone buys these options at certain range of strike prices, there's a good chance they'll expire worthless.

Is it right that (a) requires a huge amount of capital? What are these exceptions? For point (c), do you know which are the most liquid currency ETF's?

Options on currency etf's seems logical. I would like to sell options exclusively, for profit.

I would prefer exchange as well. But I would like to start with smaller risk first (10k instead of 100k), so I want to avoid futures options if possible. It would help if there was someone that had tried the Philadelphia stock exchange, or perhaps another exchange (I think EUREX trades them too).

I would be interested in trading foreign exchange options. For options that are listed on an exchange it seems there are only 2 solutions: Either options on futures, or as I've seen the Philadelphia stock exchange has them listed: http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Micro.aspx?id=FXOptions It seems...