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As well as enjoy permanent world peace and access to infinitely renewable energy sources.

Birch71, why would an fx prop firm be of interest to you? Is it training / mentoring you seek, or something else?

I enter with stop or limit orders (which are, of course, one and the same on Oanda) and exit with stop, limit and sometimes market orders. Don't shy away from volatility at all. Unless you mean something like "do I deliberately straddle the news?" -- no, that's not a part of my trading...

No. I cannot agree with that statement. There are rarely absolutes in trading, or in life. What is the basis for your belief?

A few months ago, Matthew Klein (C2 owner) mentioned on the message boards that over 1,000 subscriptions have been processed. It could be much more now, I don't know. Those message boards have certainly been growing lately. Fixed vs. incentive fee structure: each has its own pros and cons...

Thanks! Will test it, first on demo, then live.

I'd say 30% is a very reasonable, fair price to pay for having ALL functions other than trading taken care of for you. Managing the portal (website) itself, advertising, billing, subscription management, performance track record, customer service, message boards, ITM (Instant Trade Manager)...

Not to beat a dead horse, but IDEAL Pro trading has been "allowed" in FA / F&F accounts going back to at least June 2005 and probably before then. However, unlike other asset classes (including futures and stocks), you couldn't do what I've described in that paragraph above, posted earlier...

That would be very helpful, def. Just to make sure that we're on the same page here... What I am specifically referring to is being able to enter, manage and exit a single forex trade in IDEAL Pro and have it correctly allocated to client accounts according to pre-configured Account Groups...

Last time I checked, IB's powerful FA (multi-client) features did NOT work for IDEAL Pro forex trading (a major disappointment). That was confirmed by IB Customer Service. def, has that changed?

Don't know about Gain or your particular case, but some forex market-makers set a maximum leverage such as 50:1, for the trader to be eligible to receive interest credits as well as pay debits (which everyone does). Just a thought. Have you posed this question to their customer service yet...

jimrockford, Your posts are usually sensible and worth paying attention to. Including right here, the last paragraph of your post above. However, by continuing to automatically recommend Interactive Brokers to everyone who asks, as the one and only broker choice for spot forex trading, you...

Golflyer, You are asking good questions. As it happens, each of them has been discussed at length many, many times in the Forex Brokers and Forex Trading forums. Set aside a day or a weekend and read away. Then feel free to come back and ask more, hopefully different questions. Good luck.

TriPack: Comparing feeds: thanks for the advice, but my business is built on monitoring and trading multiple feeds. Slippage: I experience zero slippage with my strategies while trading size with Oanda. Your 2nd link: please see my previous reply. Your 1st link: yes, I've already...

I've been closely monitoring Oanda users' forum for a very long time. And yes, I am intimately familiar with the "long thread" you're referring to. That thread is actually misnamed: it has very little to do with individualized "price shading" and everything to do with differences between...

Hear, hear. Well said.

False. Oanda doesn't do shading. I've researched their dealing practices extensively, prior to commiting significant client assets. Care to provide links to any of those "comments here and there"? Hearsay and rumors hardly serve anyone. Hypothetically speaking, if Oanda were to engage...

Well, I'm sure QT will point you to suitable data sources. Yes, I keep an eye on CME volume. Not so much as a confirming indicator, but as a secondary trade filter.

Hmm, I think I only got one in the last week. Should I be jealous, surfer?...

Medved QuoteTracker (excellent and can be free, with ads) with Prophet.net (also free) selected as datafeed and backfill source. 10 or 20 minutes delay on futures, if I am not mistaken. There may well be other free or low-cost intraday futures sources for QT, besides Prophet.net. Just...