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Well typically AUD, CAD, NZD and ZAR are referred to as 'commodity currencies'. But if you are looking for commodity exposure there are way more direct possibilities. If you are asking what ccy will appreciate over the next 5 years, sorry i lost my magic glass-ball recently..

No 6E is the full-size contract and then there is a half-size contract for euro and yen, but they don't trade much. If Velocity commissions at ~$2 will be the norm, the micros won't be attractive anyways, even if they will be liquid. That would effectively add 3-4 pips per roundturn to the...

I'm not a lawyer or anything, and i don't know if its worth for $1500 - but if you are on a mission you could go for NFA arbitration.

I guess they could be a success if they will be as liquid as the full contracts. But I don't see that happening, just look at the e-mini EuroFX - way too illiquid to be of any use.

Tick-data of 100+ stocks for an entire year - have you calculated how many GBs of data that is? That would only work with some sort of streaming technology that doesn't require to load all data into memory before simulation (like most retail software does). The only software i know that could...

cable: where does the platform save the log-files?

Oanda has a physical delivery service called "FX GlobalTransfer" that supports USD/SGD. Theres a flat fee involved, $25 for the majors, $60 for 25 other pairs(applies for SGD). I have never used the service, you will have to check how close the rate they quote is to current market. Should beat...

Miss-trades do happen on ECNs as well, that isn't anything Oanda specific, although Oanda undoubtedly has it happen much more often. Important is how the situation gets handled. Downtimes aren't anything Oanda-specific as well, i.e. even EBS had an outage ~10 days ago for 1+ hours. ECNs do...

You had to pay exchange-fees on opentick as well, although the service itself was free.

The repective exchanges would have a problem with you, not so much the datafeed provider. For example, see: http://www.cmegroup.com/market-data/distributor/

Im planning an Iceland trip this summer. Does anyone know, can i pay in EURs over there nowadays, or is it still strictly ISK?

According to Oanda, maximum order size for a single trade is 10 mm - but you can do multiple 10 mm trades if you want. Did they really tell you are not allowed to trade 5+ mm ?

IB is good, but not for minilots - due to the $2 minimum commission per ticket (you do the math when those kick in). In my opinion ECNs are only worth it, if you pay =< $20/mm - and there is none that does that for such negligible amounts. In one way or another, small traders will always pay...

"(account balance * risk percent) /largest loss = contracts or shares to trade" Sounds to me that is an incomplete citation of the formula. When you calculate some number with that, it makes no difference if you trade C, GOOG, ES or Eur/Usd? Also begs the question, how do you determine the...

No, it was the retail platform. So unless something changed in the last few weeks, Ninja/Mirus did a lot of work for nothing. It wasn't that convincing anyways, $4/100K USD traded and really shallow liquidity.

"In the end Crown Forex got what it deserved." There have now been quite a few Swiss MT4 shops that went bankrupt over the last few years (or were forced to by the Swiss banking commission), some of them operated by the same people. They are making money of this, so i don't think the people...

There are already e-mini FX futures (1/2 size of the standard contracts) on the CME - with crap liquidity and spreads, basically untradeable. I see no reason why the micro-edition should fare any better.

Well, that would mean that they would lie into the face of the regulator - at least within EU jurisdiction. According to EU directives, every broker must issue a 'Best execution' statement and disclose any conflict of interest. If they state they are 'agency only' (like i.e. HotspotFXi does) and...

That doesn't mean anything, even on IB, where it shows the executing bank on the report, the ctpty is IB. Even if you trade through a primebroker on any other multibank platform, this is also the case. If it worked any other way, every client would need a relationship with every participating...

There simply ain't no disrespectin the Gril, yo!