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hey if you think you can make 100 pips intraday, great, i think that is just not possible on a consistant intraday basis, even if this were true i'd rather make 103 then 100 instead of giving away these 3 pips to brokers. I you can make 20-30 pips intraday per trade on a regular basis your doing...

trading the futures is much better for intraday trading: smaller spreads and you can sit on bid and ask so why give away your money to those forex brokers ?

an alternative might be IB and using another index or options on es, you might save a lot on commissions. You have to be able to leg in yourself however wich might be a litlle more difficult for a beginner.

one thing is certain: your commissions are insane

before opening a new thread try to do at least some research; this question has been answered allready before. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24089 http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21856...

if you trade euro/usd intraday you must be crazy to go with one of these brokers, spreads are 4-5 pips, futures 3 or less and you can sit on the bid or ask.

what do you want to trade ? meanwhile start with taking a look at the forex forum

you dont have to pay the spread, just trade the futures.

imo benchmarks are only usefull to compare investments, you are trading, which is something totaly different. The best thing to do is watch your equity curve and pay attention to drawdowns and make your own conclusions from that if you are doing alright. If you really want to compare you might...

and while were at the subject could someone please also give me the numbers of next week lotto.

a big assumption here, maybe all the shorts were just waiting for the bad news and the reason the stock got up in the first place was shortcovering.

euro/usd futures: smaller spreads and you can sit on the bid or ask.

trade the real thing: futures instead of getting ripped off

another ridicolous thread: better inflate your country all the way to third world level, something like argentina, then you might get something like dow 40.000.

isn't this exactly the problem with the strategy mav is proposing ? i agree with what he says, but to implement this and turning this into a strategy wich produces a meaningfull source of income one would need imo a huge capital to diversify and make a profit. Has anybody any idea about what...

imho this is just called reading the order flow, no law against that i think otherwise a lot of daytraders would be out of a job. Or am i missing something here.

dk i was referring to the original post

paranoia strikes again, do you really think the market maker will try to move the market against your position because you just traded a 1000 shares with him when a big institution can come by and do 200000 ten seconds later on the opposite side ? Of course the market maker "trades against you"...

do you honestly think anybody would give away that information if they knew it ?

bunds not enough volume ????? its probably the most liquid contract in the world !