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Yes, every customer in the UK regardless of the passport is protected. Its an EU-directive every member country has to implement, although some countries are late doing that. The amount varies from country to country, but in general this protection is EU-wide and applies also to foreigners. Its...

I know a few more (wtf - you are supposed to be the oanda fanboy not me): The pay relatively fair rolls compared to the direct competition. They do pay interest on unused funds - many don't do this at all. Easy electronic multi-ccy/subaccount management. They are more transparent than most...

Timberhill makes markets in equity options, its a separate business from their brokerage (and generates a lot more revenue than broking too). What are you saying about RBS? It even says 'Powered by Oanda technology' on their platform, so the connection is obvious. They stream their own...

Wayne: its probably a nice way to present your project. But if you say your goal is to be programmer friendly, you need in depth docs anyways. I know writing docs sucks, is time-consuming, expensive and no one wants to do it, but it would save everyone, tz support included, a lot of trouble and...

Such a feature matrix may make sense from a marketing perspective (any such matrix can be made to look good by selecting the respective features and products), but if you want to show the abilities of your product publishing (and creating) an in-depth class documentation would be much better.

Trading 6E (EUR 125K face value) with a $2000 account is pretty much suicide, even tho it is possible (according to american regulation $2K is the minimum to fund a futures margin account - IIRC, or wa it $2500 ?).

EBS has a passive/aggressive fee schedule - that is for institutions, that is are direct market participants on EBS rather than a client that got access through EBS prime. No rebates, but price takers pay way more than price makers. Not directly applicable to individual traders tho.

Few corrections for neoticker: I don't know what you mean with 'portfolio trader', but you can trade multiple symbols and multiple systems at the same time. You can also import tick data (trade and top-of-the-book bid/ask data). Problematic is that for a tick-level backtest the entire...

Either Metatrader for free or an independent ISV like Neoticker. That has the advantage that it is broker independent (you can either connect to a supported broker or a data provider). Its not free, but i don't want anything else meanwhile.

"Must be able to process at least 10 million ticks in less than 60 seconds to qualify for a yes" Process how is the question i guess. You mean just load a tick-chart with 10m ticks or actually do something with them? For a meaningful comparison there should be a simple test-case + same...

Guessing the intention was to adhere to the spot quoting standard - so that retail clients don't have to deal with inversed quotes like with their full contract counterparts.

Anyone has a source for the 60% figure? What does this include? If i get filled by a marketmaker/specialist, would that be part of the figure - since they auto-quote too. What about the execution algos to reduce market-impact that most big players use, but that are not HF otherwise. I somehow...

I would support C# too in this case. If you want productivity, stability and ease of use it beats c++ in these aspects hands down. If it is about chasing every last millisecond it would be different(and not even that in all cases). But in a typical office/trading environment there is little...

Yes there are, but more problematic for me is that the CME doesn't offer G8 crosses like eur/jpy or eur/gbp etc. at all.

Jackass: i have no experience in the swap market. Is it possible to trade odd amounts - for example a swap for 37K eur/usd position? Is there an active market for such tiny and odd amounts that are tradeable on IB IdealPro? I would guess no - but like i said, i have next to no knowledge about...

Guessing there are no tick-charts, like the other on-demand products?

Its the same with some F/X firms (although trades in f/x settle t+2). I think the policy is ok, but i don't know any firm that reports this at all (difference between valuation date vs. settlement date) - so its a bit tricky to keep track of whats there already and what not. There is...

Its a good idea to get a third party data-source in addition to your broker, just to see who is quoting what. For example, eSignal publishes quotes from 100+ brokers/institutions from the f/x-universe.

What i am seeing is pretty much instant fills on market orders (as usual), but stops and target sit there for about a minute when triggered and don't fill. After a minute or so they get filled at the correct price. Maybe the client doesn't get updated fast enough, i don't know, but its...

The Brown-rumor was bullshit anyways, he would never step down 1 day before the elections, maybe after the results of the euro/local polls come in, but not before.