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When you execute a combo of long 100K of Eur/Usd & long 100K of Usd/Jpy with an ECN broker like IB, you simply get a net position of 100k of long Eur/Jpy such that you cannot short 100k of Eur/Jpy to perform a triangular hedge. However, with other brokers such as MT4 brokers NorthFinance...

I am not the one who wrote that article and quoted that as a "secret". If you can't read by clicking on the URL link, STFU, you dumb F moron.

You mean like Forex and CFDs market traded in licensed bucketshops?:D

One of the reasons the sub-prime problem became so big is because it evolved into a highly leveraged re-packaged CDO derivative product passed around the world in a musical chair game for big banks/institutes.

How naive, Who T F cares about What T F international financial press coverage during a subprime or derivatives meltdown?

Absolutely correct, once more and more banks/big institutes (with rogue traders esp) declare writedowns in derivatives trading in billions, this would send a ripple effect with increasing investors/hedgers/ traders pulling out their funds leading to another form of liquidity crunch just like...

What happened to money the banks/institutes claimed they lost in leveraged subprime CDOs? Money heaven?:confused:

"For the past year or so, the investment world has been wrapped up in their version of a steroid scandal - the sub-prime mortgage mess. Banks are taking write-offs in the tens of billions and estimates are that write-offs will reach as high as $100 billion before long. CEO’s are losing their...

What are the stock symbols for cat food companies? Is there like an ETF for cat food industry?

THE GOVERNMENT of Singapore Corporation (GIC) has invested US$6.88 billion (S$9.83 billion) for a slice of troubled banking giant Citi. GIC, which manages Singapore's reserves, will invest the largest share of the US$12.5 billion in funds that Citi is raising from a group of investors that...

Is there a table somewhere that shows roughly the ratios to create an exact equivalent hedge between majors and crosses? e.g. eur/usd x usd/jpy = ? eur/jpy eur/usd x usd/chf = ? eur/chf gbp/usd x usd/jpy = ? gbp/jpy eur/usd / gbp/usd = ? eur/gbp Or is the ratio between major and...

Dbfx demo acct is unique indeed...I could close my positions on Saturday.

Good approach you have there, until 1 A.M Est. However, European market is usually the turning point...not sure if 2 pts stop is enough. Do you look at overnight carry trades and other factors as well? What about indices such as SPI and nikkei that runs overnight? Do you trade or watch for...

The first step to finding out whether a trading system might work or not is to automate it and backtest. MetaTrader 4 platform is free &Mql is quite similar to C++. Tradestation is probably a better choice but its not free. After backtesting with 90% modelling quality, forward test it at...

Can you do the same analysis for an anti-martingale process? Is there a way to make anti-martingale process overtake martingale process (by having both long & short positions of the same instrument) mathematically such that the net is profitable?

Is having 1 elevator the same as 2 in a building? Different number of passengers can access different combination of levels at all times with 2. Everyone going up at multi-levels have to wait for everyone going down to clear before entering the lift with 1.(Or you can enter first...

The key is turning shit into fuel:p

IB has a menu option to close all positions but I want to automate it once the net P/L hits a certain value so I don't have to be at the computer. But how do you create customised buttons in IB?

http://championship.mql4.com/2007/users/Better 10K -> 100K in ~1 month 100K -> 1mil in ~3th month 1mil -> 10mil in ~6th month 10mil -> 100mil in ~9th month 100 mil -> 1bil in ~>1 year! Why bother joining a tournament? How would you distribute your funds along a year to...

10K -> 100K in 1 month 100K -> 1mil in ~3th month 1mil -> 10mil in ~6th month 10mil -> 100mil in ~9th month 100 mil -> 1bil in ~>1 year! Why bother joining a tournament? How would you distribute your funds along a year to various MT4 brokers?