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Oanda 1/ Oanda has an API. 2/ their low spreads can get very high, especially around news time or off-market hours. Don't even try weekends (but why on Earth would you do that?) 3/ they often have server down times, although rarely anything critical. But if you happen to be in a 'long shot'...

So you predict the collapse of the Federal Reserve?

I have. I found this paragraph in the lead: "But European banks had huge exposure to U.S. mortgage backed securities and now there is growing concern about exposure to emerging markets, where there has been $4.3 trillion of international bank lending, $3.7 trillion of which belongs to...

Why, the 1/1000000th of the 310 quadrillion shares that are traded every year is 310 billion in revenues, isn't it?

How is doing more of the same that big conglomerates of IT have been doing so long is remaking the IT landscape? What is new about big IT companies that create nothing, instead only buy up talent and working products and selling them to their customer base anything novel? Sounds like a lot like...

Just what I was about to say when finished reading the article. I remember a much better written discussion years ago about capital structure in the Harvard Business Review or the Journal of Finance, that eerily sounded similar to this one. I felt reading this article that I'm reading the...

I especially liked the honest-salesman-went-broke in the clip. Yeah, salesmen are well known for their honesty and character, they never push dodgy products onto customers knowingly, they always look after the customers' interest and not their own commish, etc. I also never heard any...

Got a link for this? Because this sounds an awful lot far-fetched.

:D:D :D This' what I was talking about. Cutting me where it hurts, my trading skills, by a guy who's unable to figure out what margin is... :D :D :D

It's not pointless for two reasons: a/ if noob doesn't realize (because he is too arrogant to see it) that he has to do his homework first, then start asking questions, then how is he going to be able to trade on his own? b/ This site is littered with useless threads and it sure doesn't help the...

:D This is why I like ET - the entertainment value... Noob comes in asks a dumb fucking question. Another noob comes to the help gives clueless answer. Someone who has been around long enough to be sometimes right is frustrated by all the noobs who can't even read or are too lazy/dumb to do...

From the Telegraph article: "Although the exact results of the tests remains the subject of conjecture, it is understood that all 19 institutions involved will "pass" the tests – although that is not surprising as should an institution be deemed to have insufficient capital, the US...

You do realize its a cut & paste from alphaville, don't you?

big developed country = small developing country = redneck individual Right. We are talking about economics, aren't we? I was talking about small closed economy developing countries vs. big developed countries, and if you would at least be familiar with free trade ideas you would've...

Very good advice. Maybe you should take it. And some math class too. If your house burns down you're at -300k-30k+50k FREE AND CLEAR in the red at -280k. Now, if you prefer that to paying mortgage that was taken out at 300k, and now you only have assets of 200k+50k=250k and have a house to...

Can somebody who is raving about this 'car' explain to me why does it make more sense to buy this for $2800 than a used car for $300 that has everything (A/C, windows, seats, wheels, etc.)?

This is really stupid. If your house burns down you're at -300k, plus -20-30k for removing the debris and you have a 50k asset. And you rather have that than a 200k+50k asset. Can I be your real estate agent? And for the 'free trade benefits all' crowd: Free trade means whoever produces...

It is absolutely true that shorting stocks & bonds is unamerican and is a direct attack on the 'American lifestyle'. HOWEVER. Shorting is the most natural occurance of nature just as going long. Think of anything really, but let's use trees for example. In order for the forest to stay...

Show me a manager who is 'officially' invested 50%+ in his own fund, and I show you an offshore bank account big enough for three managers to live retirement on...

Why are you guys so pissed about this? Yes, it's a stupid rule, but if putting up 25k is such a problem, then most probably you shouldn't daytrade anyways. Plus, I don't think that masses of 5-10k daytraders will even remotely balance out hedge fund insiders...