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    Best Forex Broker for Intraday Traders

    I'd say I'm an intra day trader who holds a position for a short while... like 30 mins or less. couple times a week maybe a few hours, but rarely so. anyway, what brokers do you recommend? I thought I'd contribute to this forum as well so here is my experience with Forex.com 1...
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    Trading news times

    LOL! LOL! LOL! 25!!
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    Tired of Cutting My Losses Short

    can't... trading retail forex can't hedge i think it also boils down to the fact that half the time i don't know what the hell i'm doing the market movements are so random sometimes
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    Tired of Cutting My Losses Short

    FUCK!! I'M TIRED OF THIS SHIT I pick a side, I get out before my loses get "too big" or I feel like I'm wrong for some reason. I get out when "my reasons of getting in don't seem valid anymore." and then BAM the market moves in my direction. FUCK. FUCK. If I had just stubbornly held...
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    How much ARe you paying?

    i just paid over 5 dollars for a USD/CAD trade.... and no it's not during news time that's ridiculous do not ever use forex.com
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    Freezing Up during Interest Roll Over

    Forex.com does this I couldn't liquidate my position wow... wow.... the whole thing just stopped responding is oanda (or other brokers) do this???
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    Quotes or Streaming Quotes for Yield

    Where can I find them? It's something you all should be interested in. I'd like to somehow have a streaming quote of the treasury yield throughout the day... Well US is most important but other countries as well.
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    GDP numbers were horrible--read here

    then why is the USD doing well is it b/c of the oiL?? wtf is going on
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    Omg! Canadian & American Gdp!!

    OMG OMG OMG OMG! WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING WITH THE PAIR! IT'S COMING OUT 8:30 AM AND IT'S NOW 8:12 AM S&P is up, gold is down, oil is down, WHAT TO DO!!
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    Then & Now, Starting over,Sort of

    just fuck around/trade with a small account..... and be profitable, and then go from there
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    How much ARe you paying?

    I'm trading AUD and CAD and I feel like I'm paying way too fucking much i trade CAD during the US hours using forex.com and they rape me on spreads anyone use a broker with lower costs?
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    non-TA trading

    Hey, how many of you don't primarily use TA in your trading? And to my specific question. Do any of you use currency futures as an indicator for trading? Because supposedly, Forex is "spot" and futures are suppose to tell the future???
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    Shorting Bonds, Bond Spreads

    Hey getting a little confused about “shorting” bonds. So I’m reading this book on fixed income, and the guy is talking about spread trading. And he says that you buy a bond and short another (make sense). However, what doesn’t make sense is that he is treating it like options! He...
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    Best calls you've seen on ET

    UHHHH..... How about George Soros CALLING the direction of the british pound... How about John Arnold calling the direction of the natural gas spread... How about Johnson Paulson calling the sub-prime market... Not saying ET members do that or I do that :p , but don't give me the BS...
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    Best calls you've seen on ET

    so you're saying that it's impossible to make a good call. listen, if a guy makes a good call, he seems to know what he's doing, and he gives a good reason, give credit where credit is due... Not saying he's correct 100% of time, but he might have good insights for making that particular move
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    Enkidu's Option Journal

    date executed: 1/17/08 Thursday, around 2:30 put spread on UNG, bought 40 sold 39, price of UNG at 39.05 profit target.... bought put: strike 40, 37.62 in the money, .30 ask-bid sold put: strike 39, 37.18 in the money, .35 ask-bid reasons... weather: don't know, but doesn't seem too...
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    Enkidu's Option Journal

    I will trade options on ETFs in this journal. As for right now, my strategy solely consists of call and put spreads. If you have suggestions to improve my option notations, let me k,now. ETFs may include.... UNG (Natural Gas) USO (Oil) Heating oil, which should come out soon...
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    Elderly Americans Soon Eating Cat food due to high energy/food prices

    If I get the website up, you'll see what my methods are. But the main target is poor people who can't afford heating, so they probably won't have a computer either. I won't expect them to analyze or interpret, but I want to convince them that hedging works and that everyone does it, and then...
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    Elderly Americans Soon Eating Cat food due to high energy/food prices

    This is still in the developmental stage and may take years to perfect... but I think I figured out a way for these "consumers" to "hedge" against heating fuels, namely heating oil and natural gas. Eventually I want start a foundation and organization to let (or teach them) poor people...
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    When did you receive Bernanke's news?

    he was "suppose" to make the speech at 1pm, but the outline of the speech was leaked way before! I feel bad for the little guy who waited until 1pm to receive the news...
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