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The HSI is not great but despite a lot of bad news this year it seems to be doing remarkably better than elsewhere, US or Europe. Do you believe it'll correct lower?

Interesting. Why doesn't the FED adopt a similiar approach. Isn't the FED making funds available to banks to lend, or are the FED funds just to help the banks themselves rather than for lending?

To read the alot of the press [ft.com etc] it seems to be a given that "who has solved this credit crisis? It's been Europe, and Gordon Brown in particular". They do not elaborate however to point out why it is Europe or Gordon Brown. There has been government bailouts in Europe but in...

I tend to agree but there is the counterarguement that this giant rally really began on Friday when Citi was at its worse.

Thats what I'm guessing as well. It makes a big bang on the front page and gives a burst of good sentiment for the market. It certainly couldn't be ruled out as a factor

Yahoo and IB seem to be quoting unusual figures like fxi at 45.53 and eem at 42.81 , unless there's something wrong with my laptop or my reading of whats happening, I've looked up ishares and searched around but can't find any explaination. Any help'd be appreciated

One of the problems with Europeans mouthing off so much is that they are not saying anything meaningful and tend to drown out quieter nations, they leave little chance for say, Singapore or New Zealand to present their view.

Thank you for suggestions The DNA and traderStudio look a little advanced. I have no need for backtesting , more for a simple record of what actually occurred. Quicken might be ok, though seems more like for a small business So far I have found...

Are there any reccomendations for a simple effective software package for trade management. At the moment I use excel and keep daily records though other suggestions are welcome

In a sense it means that longterm traders are being paid to hold Oil because the price increases as it gets towards todays date

Generally, I find it hard to work out the effect of PM, though without doubt it seems to give far higher leverage, about 6:1. It's useful when holding both short and longs and unusual because seems to NOT want an equal proportion of shorts and longs, to make for optimal leverage

" I will explain...." Thank you for these views, though I can not agree. I accept the arguement that due to price movements the FXI can return to it's start position and FXP will not, when going up then down, however the reverse happens when going down then up and over an extended period...

As far as I am aware it's calculated daily and appears in the statement under interest. They have a section on their site that describes the interest payments, apparently there needs to be greater than $10 000 in the relevant currency.

Has anyone noticed that the Chinese market has come down a long way since November last ? Yet FXP which is supposed gain twice the downward movement is in fact virtually unmoved. Whats happened to those investors who put their funds with FXP only to find that it provided no hedging? Any...

I recently paid NZD $4000 (about US 3200). It was a big job and the quality of the work was excellent, though the time went on for ages, months over schedule. Meant to be $90 hr though probably over 100 hours work in it

Hello How is it possible to trade the real? I can not find any brokers who deal in this, not Oanda, MG, IB, Saxo etc. In theory, there are futures but they are basically illiquid with a wide spread. It's hard to understand how a major nation like Brazil does not have a freely traded currency...

quote: I was less regarded than the others because of my college education, professional and personal backgrounds. -- In the management, there's probably a lot of snob values associated with trading in Paris, "who you know not what you know", in other words they might not be doing...

I believe the best approach and what I use is to assign 2 drawdown goalposts and to aim at falling in between the 2. Then periodically adjusting the trade sizes to suit. For example a monthly 3% and 6% drawdown. This is better than sharpe becasue some drawdown is perfectly OK, it's just the...

I've recently witnessed the ask prices incorrect, actually lower than the bid prices

VIX futures often trade a long way from the underlying index, also to move very differently from the index, is there any alternative for trading volatility? Any comment welcome.