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Globex posts prices and volumes - you can trade all you want. For API, theres no shortage of brokers - try Man, IB etc, APIs are not the scary invention they used to be!

Try going to dslreports.com and checking out their resources - could be helpful!

Why limit your trades to ONE so-called market-maker, when you have futures on euros where there are hundreds of participants watching, trading, showing bids/offers etc etc?

Alkso, not many factories and NO homes can now switch from gas to oil. Forget even thinking of switching to coal. NG is a bull market!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Size trades are in the interbank market. Some customers will only trade minimum of 150 lots of gold in cash mkt, dealers usually qoute each other for up to 100 lots

With all the talk about this firm, Oanda, I read their Terms & Conditions for trading and its pretty striking. You should read it too when you have time to consider the agreements implications. But, if you're trading with them and making money, why question a good thing?

More buyers than sellers, throw in an illiquid market and voila!!

If your hero Oanda is open 24/7/365, why not gun their market (as no one else is open for them to trade with or offset) on a Saturday night / Sunday morning and hit all the stops or force margin calls on naive customers? That forces Oanda to cover from you, the customer, right? If its an...

From reading these endless posts, IMHO, the folks who cant "qualify" for a futures a/c, shouldnt be trading leveraged products with small brokers.

The media doesnt want to tell people to go look at their electricity bills - in MA, the PUC got a request for a 25% electricity increase due to costs from some utility. Maybe being long some utilities isnt a bad idea.

Only trade qm & qg - it stakes a while to get used to the gaps, the wide spreads and the endless head fakes. For QG, imagine trading bonds, if there were 3-5 tick spreads, routinely, sometimes 10-15. If dealers threw in huge size they had no attention of being hit on, and pulled it if they...

Generally, investors get different legal standing or contracts than customers. If you're a general unsecured creditor of anyone, I think its a good idea to understand their balance sheet. In my experience, all legitimate trading houses will send you audited statements upon request or post...

Has anyone ever seen Oanda balance sheet?

I wonder what his GPA is, as its now late Sept and he doesnt have a job! Trader-wannabe---why dont you get a job in the back office of some big IB processing trades, clearing exceptions etc. Maybe if you're smart, they'll make you an ass't or even promote you to the IT dep't so you can switch...

Does oanda have an audited balance sheet? And by audited, I mean an auditor I've heard of.

Theres lots of ways to get size done, but, what difference does it make ? Keep in mind that if you go out and hit 10 banks for 100 bucks each, none will appreicate it, but if you give 1 an order for your full amount, you'd probably get a better fill. Banks dont like being used like punching...

I think the last set of stats were that NYSE arb trades were around 70%

It just dawned on me - wasnt Sneed or maybe shneed, Cap't Hook's sidekick in Peter Pan?

In the interbank market, dealers usually agree how much they'll qoute for before asking for prices. , eg, I'll qoute you for X, if you qoute me for X... Customers will usually ask for an amount, eg, cable in 50, etc,

My view is simply that if there are latencies along the way, the faster your order gets handled the better. I think its a very reasonable question to ask brokers about their systems, call centers etc.