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If you just want a quote at a specified date and time, you can use this: http://fxlabs.oanda.com/cgi/fxcompare/compare_price.pl

Why do you reason that this system works? From the few trades in this thread? More over, what are your criterions to determine weather a system is worth trading or not? I have tested various similar morning breakout systems. They all performed exceptionally well in some years, and abysmal in...

Here is a somewhat authoritative description of the state of affairs with FXCMs new STP platform. They are an IB for fxcm's Active Trader program and try to connect metatrader, and as such monitor a lot of executions for their clients. Doesn't look too pretty. Late/vanishing fills, fills outside...

Yes, they do this from time to time. Spilled some coffee over this myself, its a nice shocker. And its not even them, its Pension/GHCO screwing something up in their backoffice. Or that's the usual story told anyways. Funny that this is still going on (cxld my account there quite some time ago).

Excuse my ignorance, but shouldn't you actually get paid interest on short equity positions? There is a borrowing fee alright, but this rate sounds rather excessive to me.

The OP asked for physical cash exchange. With futures you can do sometehing like that only 4 times a year during the delivery period (when future and spot trade essentially at the same price). There is virtually no counterparty risk since its cleared through a central counterparty (exchange...

I don't know. But Oanda will not accept any incoming deposits other than from an account in your name (so you can't withdraw from your futures broker to your oanda account). I dont know if funding an account through oanda and withdrawing to your personal bank account complies with money...

If you want physical delivery on a trade and wire out the funds, you will have to deposit the full amount (obviously). I know only about IB and Oanda(FxGlobalTransfer) who can do this in the retail space, and of course every bank, but as you say, they are likely to be way more expensive than...

Slapshot, please stop lecturing people who actually trade this market. Obviously, you have no clue what you are talking about. You went from "In a 1-pip spread environment you have to pay 1 pip to enter and 1 pip to exit", "the market has to move 12 pips in order to make a 10 pip gain with a...

If you trade 1 mio. eur/usd, $20 is still not right, but anyways.. Please explain how you pay 2 pips per trade as "commission" with a 1-pip fixed spread like in your example. Thanks.

Lol, you got the IB commissions all wrong AND don't get such a simple concept like the bid/ask spread. Yet again, this forum proves to be a source of much amusement.

You can try: http://www.quotespeed.com/ But use the phone, it took them ages to answer my mails last time i was in contact with them. They offer data in all sorts of granularity, for the CME you can purchase even the depth data, if i am not mistaken.

The Reuters product sure sounds very nice, it also sounds like it has a very institutional price tag..

No, what i meant was you could use marketable limit-orders instead of marketorders when hitting bid/offer. I.E. if mkt is 50/51 and you want to buy, send a buy limit IOC 52 instead of a marketorder. Noone will fade that(not for much, anyways).

So send a marketable limit-order 1 pip on the outside?

Jay the website is a bit unclear about what it exactly does. Do i get access to all contributor specific FX data on a delayed basis or just to my specific contributor i have an account with? The broker suplies realtime streaming quotes while eSignal provides the backfill, is that right...

1 tick? The micro EuroFX is more like 3 to 4 ticks wide. And even that in very small size.

Do you really want another useless debate about that? You can choose from one of the many flame-threads in this very foum-section.

Exchange fees are $0.16 - discounted to $0.06 for the next 6 months. But yes, doesn't look too impressive.

It would appear the popular belief in here is that the business model of a marketmaker is risk-taking against client-positions, and if it doesn't work out they fix it through screwing them over with 'stop-hunting' or 'individual pricing' or whatever? That's not how it works.