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often seen it about 0.75 spread which is relatively tight compared to others (saxo among). is there much better?

saxobank yes, also why not the good old CME future - tightish spreads and real interbank finance rates... Q1

www.selftrade.co.uk - their SIPP is very good value - lots of funds and direct stocks too. Q1

the EURUSD was in a very narrow multi-week range, inside a narrow multi-month range. Near dated Implied vols collapsed to ~ 6.5% (near all time low apparently - unable to verify). this implies trend following traders and gamma buyers have been getting killed and are therefore sparsely...

acronym - love it, lol.. :D Q1

It's odd but actually the LSE has a higher turnover as a % of market cap than the US exchanges. LSE trading has grown massively in recent years because although only member firms do not have to pay stamp tax on purchases (0.5%) they have in turn offered contract-for-difference OTC derivatives to...

Black-scholes variant models only work for vanilla european-exercise options

See hoadley.net (Cox-Ross-Rubinstein)

often see funny action in quarter end week and especially quarter-end day - strange persistent moves that get reversed just as strongly etc etc

Appreciate your sharing of this trade - I'm currently involved in the JPY too. Long gamma, delta-hedged - it would be nice for my position if your trade works as it would mean my delta-hedges would make money! Currencies do move on interest rates though - technically the USD has been in a...

every developer knows users have no idea what they really want and more importantly no language with which to express what they want if they did.... KA-CHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you, Q1 :D

how do you access? local broker?

I know you can trade the KOSPI via IB but is there anyone out there trading the RTX (Russia www.rts.ru), Bovespa (Brazil), the TOP40 (South Africa) or the NIFTY (India) from foreign (to those countries) "retail" accounts? If so please let me know how, who etc, Thx, Q1 :D

As it happens several years ago I went back and read through the UK's primary weekly investment magazine of the time (Investors Chronicle) to see what its coverage was like preceding the 1987 crash. I didn't find what I expected: the principal writers were bearish for a lot of the summer with...

you da man...

Grob, How many answers can you give? I perhaps should have said that obviously the ropes may not burn evenly, ie 2/3 rope <> 2/3 time.... Q1

ok i had that one at interview too (but for me it was two men and a dog).... how about this one: i have two ropes and a lighter. i know if i light the end of each rope they will burn for exactly 1 hour. use the ropes to measure exactly 45 mins. Q1 :D

the perceived certainty that crude will go higher now has about the same intensity/breadth of belief as it was with the dollar weakening when it was when it was 1.30+ against the euro... :) Q1

aah, don't ya jus' love the smell of hubris on Sunday... :p Q1

sorry i haven't checked through all of these for my all-time favourite - which is from one the Market Wizards books: "If you can keep your head when all others about you are losing theirs, then you haven't heard the news." H L Mencken This ALWAYS brings a smile to my face...