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Ever though about checking the spreads before you 'enter a bunch of marketorders'?

The best solution is always that your broker offers accounts with your home-currency as base-currency. You can use a physical delivery service to get better rates and hedge the FX exposure, but it will always incur fees/swaps and bind margin.

Show me any FX signal/trading system seller for $300 thats not one of the 3 things i mentioned above. Not talking about books, data-providers or other trading related accessoirs.

Seriously, why would *anyone* in the trading business sell something worthwhile for $275 - its ridiculous. The offer says it all really, $275 in trading is nothing. Just apply a little common sense. People selling signals/trading system for these amounts of money are either crooks, fools or...

I approve this thread. otherside: did you sell your "quant-models" for $275 too?

Lon Eagle, i think commissions came down since then. Me smallfish got an offer for $18. That was Aarontrade, which is an IB for ADM as far as i understand it. A nice feature they have is that you can enter a trade on Currenex and exit on Hotspot (or vice versa).

MBTrading does allow any size from 1000 units upwards too, if i remember correctly.

Its r, looking at a live view account of i tho since a few weeks, and spreads aren't really much different. Trading on oanda for the most part now.

Yes that's his strategy. Put x% of capital in very deep OTM options, wait for the big bang and hope there's enough monies to survive until then.

Breaking even? More like blowing up his last fund.. He likes to style it as an "experiment" rather than a blowup nowadays. Wonder if his former investors care about the distinction tho.

I have both Hotspot and Oanda accounts, in the end it only matters who provides the better pricing (Oanda has a slight advantage there). I doubt Hotspot is lying in there 'Best Execution'-statement as required by the regulator in Europe about being a agency-only broker, but in the end it doesn't...

I have noticed too that the Game behaves crazy. Live appears to be fine.

Austria isn't closed. ATX index shows up 10% from Friday close on my screen.

Mutually exclusive, 'fraid you have to scratch a word out of that list..

Fimat/Newedge? They have pretty high minimums, but these days with all the HF redemptions they may also be interested in not as big business. Also they aren't a bank and kept out of the news so far during the crisis.

I was thinking this: http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/rgu/extio/extiof1420/ The advantage is you could rackmount several PCs in another room and have only 1 set of monitors/keyboard/mouse for them. 100% silent.

Matrox QIDs are nice because they are passively cooled, meaning low noise. My box sounds like a vacuum cleanser, im thinking either about a KVM extender solution (only found 1 that supports 4 monitors, expensive) or low noise components.

I agree, what the retail-banks charge in terms of swaps and fees for deposits in another currency is ridiculous. You can either use a broker with multi-currency accounts like IB and deposit in your currency directly, or another good option is Oandas physical delivery service. You can exchange...

I dont think the margins or broker-biz is a big problem, but they still do have considerable 'wallstreet-exposre' through their options-marketmaking? A failure of a big counterparty would still affect them, no? Also think Velocity Futures, if one of their moneymarket funds fails where they...

I'm seeing mostly 3 pip spreads on average on FXi in Eur/Usd and Usd/Jpy in the recent days.