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Agree with late apex and 2cents. OANDA may be a "bucketshop", but all in all they're the BEST bucketshop. And they're getting better.

Apparently, this question won't come into play until Q4/2006; that's Microsoft's current time frame for releasing Longhorn. BTW, they have decided to call it "Vista". But in general, it's never a bad idea to wait a bit before upgrading software - to see if it is indeed an upgrade, and allow...

If OANDA would just get on with refining their charting software, there'd not be a reason for small traders like me to even consider a switch.

If I were permitted to have only one trading rule, that would be it. As for where you take profit on a winner, I'd say: once your original risk is gained, move your stop to breakeven; after that just close out the trade with a market order if/when you have given back 50% of your peak profit...

Currently, I'm training on Oanda's "FXGame", a demo platform which is said to closely mimic the action on their "FXTrade" live platform. Oanda's quoted spreads are the tightest of the retail FX brokers, often as little as 2 pips on the EUR/USD, depending upon market volatility. I can place...

You don't have to buy it; it's free. I used it. It works.

You definitely didn't have to be an "accredited investor" two years ago. But IB didn't seem to be "small investor"-friendly then, and if anything is even less so now.

I just (a few minutes ago) came on the board and opened this thread, whereupon this message from McAfee VirusScan popped up: "The File C:\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES\CONTENT.IE5\WDM7452J\SHOWTHREAD[1].PHP was infected by the Exploit-MhtRedir.gen trojan and has been deleted to complete the...

Steve, try this: http://www.spychecker.com/program/coolwebshredder.html It's freeware, it's kept updated with all new variants of the CWS trojan, and it works. Are you sure you're infected with "CoolWebSearch"? There is so much of this wretched malware about, and it's very hard to clean...

abound. One of the better ones: "Firefox" (formerly "Firebird"), from Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org/. It may be better than "Opera", I think.

...is to "need" very little. Think about it...

Here's one of the threads I mentioned: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25037&perpage=6&pagenumber=1 - should answer most of your questions.

Demos are useless for system testing. What you need is a trading simulator, and the best I know of is the one which comes with the IB front-end ButtonTrader. Currently it supports only the Interactive Brokers datafeed, but I believe it will give you the closest thing to the actual real, live...

Try this link: http://browse.to/autotrader . The site's up and working, and there's an explanation for the message you got.

All currencies gratefully accepted. Also Visa, Mastercard, PayPal... :D :D

No worries, mate. You're not stupid, you just haven't traded "commodities" before. You're smart to ask! You need to go to the IRS website and read Publication 550 (deals with investment income), specifically "Section 1256 Mark-to-Market" rules. Here, I'll make it easy for ya...

I'm just now getting interested in trading Forex myself. This is an excellent question. I've seen something on the subject recently, but can't recall if it was here or on the Moneytec.com forum. IIRC, for US tax reporting purposes, forex trades are treated like regulated futures contracts...

Wait until you have $5000 before you even think about opening an account and trading. While you're getting that $5000 together, educate yourself! Read everything on the websites of the stock exchanges and the commodity exchanges, like CME, CBOT, NYBOT. Read everything you can find on the web...

I've been checking out their demo for a week now, and I like the "heft and feel" of it. I also like the fact that I can trade as many units as I want, with no minimums or fixed lot sizes. That's remarkable, and it's ideal for working up a trading method under real market conditions but without...

Yes, he's kidding! :D :D :D ...He is, isn't he :confused: