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Chood, of course, clients' funds are completely safe under RefcoFX's custody. It's as good as a bank vault, trust us. You just can't open the vault and get anything out, for the time being, until further notice. :p

I am curious how you can possibly recommend a book which is not even out yet and will not be published for another month? Kathy Lien's main, or only, claim to fame seems to be that she writes daily commentary on dailyfx.com, an FXCM outfit. Has she ever been a successful trader? Who knows...

Well, as you probably know, Oanda is Canadian. :p And they are not stuck on the "mini lot" concept... that's sooo 20th century. Of course, you'd only get 50:1 initial / 100:1 maintenance leverage.

The "Fall Special Issue 2005", not the regular monthly issue of "Futures".

Which means: "You might have a chance." (BTW, that particular trick only works in IE, not Firefox or Netscape.)

Robert, you mean, of course, bid / ask "depth" or "size", rather than "volume." Yes, that is very good to see. With now 5 top-tier global banks providing liquidity to the IDEALPro platform, the next logical, most welcome step for IB would be to raise, once again, those per-trade size limits...

FXTrade is up now!

Just spoke to Customer Service a few minutes ago. Told that their techs are working to solve it, but no time estimate yet.

FXTrade has been down since shortly after 9 pm EST.

Having read the book, I believe most people will not be able to make spread trading work for them, even if their life depended on it. They (myself included) simply don't possess the trading personality to hold slowly developing positions in pit-traded futures and commodities, typically for many...

Every ECN-type forex broker will offer 2-and-under euro spread most of the time. In addition to the 3 named above (InterbankFX, Currenex and Interactive Brokers), better-known ECNs include: - COESfx - FXall - HotspotFX The non-ECN, bucketshop-type market makers (NOT brokers) will have...

http://www.hotspotfx.com/

http://www.alpari-idc.com/en/dc/databank.php

Your original post mentioned an email from Refco. The only email you've posted so far is from FXCM. Am I missing something?

It would not be accurate to say that the peak volatility period for EUR/USD overall is 8-9 am EST. First, on key US news days at 8:30, very little is going to be happening between 8 and 8:30. It's a "slo-mo" time in the forex market. Second, the 8:30-9 am period still pales in comparison...

Yes, the peak times differ dramaticaly among currency pairs. I would highly recommend that you educate yourself (google will do) about the significance of Asian, European and American sessions, and their sub-sessions, within a 24-hour forex trading day. Your first two questions will then answer...

Spread betting.

Oops! My mistake. Thanks, easyguru... for helping solve the mystery. Obviously, I got fooled by the existence of the exact same inquiry (from a new ET member) in 2 different forums, within minutes of each other. I hereby promise to pay more attention to the particular forum name next time...

50 cent, I can only help you with EUR/USD at the moment. Looks like dailyfx.com has cut down on the max look-back period. It used to be 350 months, or 29 years and 2 months. Earlier this year, I saved some long-term charts from there. Here's a EUR/USD monthly candle chart from Jan. 1976...

A Tale of Two Posts In the "Resources" forum, "rosw" (located in Singapore) was looking for FX magazines, first thing Monday morning (EST): http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=56822 I posted a concise reply, consisting of: 1) 1 sentence that I didn't think any of...