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alright, i dont know if its an IB agreement, but you certainly have a website for them: http://4xmadeeasy.mbtrading.com/fx/

Has MB ended the IB agreement with 'ForexMadeEasy' too? I never understood why you choose to associate yourself with such obvious scoundrels. I would have thought the reputational damage far outweighs the commission revenue.

They quoted commissions between $12 and $18, based on volume breaks, so i supposed its HotspotFXi. Im under the impression that there is a 500k minimum in deal size. P.S.: the information on your first link is outdated, its possible to do 1000 units transactions with the american branch of...

A friend of mine who trades at AdvatageFutures told me that they will offer offer Hotspot, either with the Hotspot frontend, or via TT-FixAdapter/XTrader 'soon'. Just remember Hotspot is 0.5 mio per click minimum. TT has also FXMarketspace(globex) connectivity, unsure if that will be offered too.

I think it also depends on the instrument. I.e. i dont experience much lag for forex quotes (hotspot) with esignal, whereas stocks, according to many posts on that board, appear to lag rather bad. There are also posts on this board that indicate that the charting application itself can be a...

Dont you have a 'Off market transactions policy' in your agreement? It usually states that the client has to report such a transaction within ~15 minutes, and that the broker will review the transaction and make a ruling 'on his sole discretion' in a 'timely manner'. I guess the question is, is...

J7 and E7 - the Yen and EuroFX mini futures - are way too illiquid for trading. Use 6E and 6J instead. If the normal contracts are too big for you, you have to trade spot through Oanda or something.

So, how do spreads and available size compare to other venues? Was it worth the hassle?

Sign up here (free) and judge for yourself: http://equivalentsrdc.cme.com:443/index.html

FXMarketspace apparently doesnt draw much interest from the targeted players. In Dec 07, the last month they published trading volumes, it was down to 600 mio. avg. per day. I bet most retail shops like Oanda do more than that, and thats more than a year into the game. I dont know what, but they...

Im using Neoticker too. It supports quite a few data-vendors/brokers, benefit being if you switch vendor you dont loose all your studies/work.

What extras would that be? In my opinion, 99% of them are just out there to get a commission cut or another form of a kickback without providing any value whatsoever.

Stops are not for losers, but for people who believe in murphy's law. "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong." What if, during a trade, your internet connectivity fails, or the broker has a hick up, or any of the many other scenarios which prevent you from entering an order, about which you...

IB/IdealPro only matches your orders with a number of banks prices or other IB customer orders. Theres no games being played with the spread or quotes on IB, and they do not "bucket" your trade, like some posters above imply, they are agency only. You even get the name of the counterparty to...

Thanks, DisciplinedHedg.

How do they calculate the chances of a certain rate cut with the futures? Someone got a link with an explanation/paper?

eSignal has forward rates going back to 2000 (daily). The data is a bit spikey tho, because they aggregate quotes from a lot of sources.

Seeeesh....

In my opinion, assuming a 1 pip spread on the euro during regular hours is quite fair for the brokers i mentioned, maybe ECNs are a tad tighter on average. If nothing else, it just shows that MB spot is just way out there.

Lets just compare commissions and for a 1 mio. Eur/Usd transaction and assume a rate of 1.5300 and a 1 pip spread for everything (even tho on spot its often < 1 pip): IB Spot: $30.6 (20x1.5300) IB Future, bundled: $22.80 (8x2,85) OEC retail: 27.70 (8x3,46) OEC pro: $22.90 (8x2,86)...