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Some chick sent me an invite, I never used this so I wouldn't know how it works. But on the email, there were two pics of other women I have exchanged emails with (you might also know these people says FB) . Problem there is nothing linking the person sending the invite to the two others I...

I was just looking at my FB profile which I turn on and off and there was this young chick down my street who I talked to a few times, I knew her sister and checked out her profile (for some reason FB now keeps popping her profile in my face ! ) , she is barely 18 and has something like get this...

20 % is not excessive, it's the norm or even below the norm I think. I have had the same impression as the OP regarding the long term performance of most CTA's. Noone here talked about what academic research has long discovered in the world of mutual funds and hedge funds, there is little...

Yes it is doomed, doomed , doomed. And increasing consumption by developing countries is not the solution. Reliance on consumption IS the problem, resources are limited, growth cannot continue forever. That's why growth at any cost policies mean shooting ourselves in the foot over trhe long...

Anyone thinks Gold is being sold by central banks intervening every time it makes a new high ? I never believed in the gold bugs' conspiracy theories until now . It sure looks like intervention to me. Gold doesn't make sense, it's not what it used to be at all . Now if they intervene, how ...

Can you HFT guys give an example of an old bread and butter strategy you have used ? What is it exactly that you do and how would you describe it to the layman ? For example do you trade on momentum , do you detect volume patterns in the orders ? Do you mostly arb between ECN's ? Do you trade...

yes people do it all the time. Become friend with ibankers. Become a high class pimp so you can pay for tips in kind . Get prepaid cell phones, open a couple of accounts in assumed names in the Bahamas , Switzerland etc. And voilà. if you have the right friends in the right place you don't have...

well well... so they invade Afghanistan because of a few bearded wackos who presumedly are terrrorists , then they put a puppet in power, and give all the rebuilding contracts to US companies, lo and behold just a few years later they find a trillion dollar worth of rare mineral deposits ! What...

How reliable are these Euromoney polls ? This publication looks to me as being run by and for the financial industry , and we all know a bad broker which had awards from Euromoney or some other similar publication. Anyone familiar with this magazine and how Euromoney conducts its polls ?

So what's your opinion of European brokers ? Mine is that there are a lot more crooks among them than among US brokers , less competition means more room to cut corners. Besides most of them are either Swiss or dodgy operations out in Cyprus which in many cases is all you need to know

Does the DMA model work for commodities as well or are commodities CFD's a bucket shop product by definition ?

I read on one forum that the articles say Saxo had a dedicated team going to great lengths to find ways to beat customers and take their money. I didn't read the original articles though , can anyone confirm this story ?

well that's not a big advantage, you can trade all these asset classes as futures on one platform . Leverage is not an advantage to most people, only experienced, profitable and very gifted traders can really take advantage of leverage , all the others who marvel about leverage are just...

I was also skeptical of these products, but now I think that they could be a good solution to small and mid size accounts 2k up to 50 k when you want to trade index products , commodities and bond futures overnight without leverage and with the flexibility of choosing exactly your size. I...

well that's just how IB works, it doesn't convert your gains or losses in the base currency, you have to do it yourself and pay extra commish , otherwise you have all those FX lines in your portfolio and everything gets very confusing, that's just how messed up TWS is.

IB kind of sucks for FX, because of TWS which is developed by incompetent people with an agenda that doesn't serve the customer but the firm . I was wondering if market orders were safe during normal times. In other words do they have an obligation to make a tight market, or can they widen...

I have heard about the experience of some traders there but have you heard lately about a probe by the Danish authorities over questionable practices at Saxo ? Apparently there was a lot bad press coverage in Denmark on what was going on at Saxo bank, this followed scathing accusations by a...

what's the NDD ?

so why do you get upset if I believe your alleged returns are not realistic or sustainable ? If they are real you should be glad others don't believe in them . If someone doesn't believe that what you do can be done that's all the better for you , I will never understand the ETers calling...

Is this for real this 10:1 leverage rule , I can't imagine it will pass as this would kill the US industry , there will be massive migration to the likes of Saxo, and other European dealers. IB interface and accounting suck .