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its not trading if the banks fill you. they arnt into taking risk, and if they notice that dealing with orders coming from one broker is turning out to be risky. they are going to do something about it. its more of a liquidity providing service from the bank's side, which they make a cut on. and...

because for them to get their cut using futures, their prices will always be worse than globex's. in that case people will just migrate to using globex directly. I personally think there should be one global market for trading forex, hopefully in the future. Plus id like to see mini futures...

I think the reason why people hype futures so much is because it is a 'real market' compared to fx. on globex you are trading against other traders who decide what they are willing to buy/sell at. when you trading fx there is a level of cross trades where you trade against other traders, but...

I dont see how banks would be able to tell the duration of FX orders from single clients? If you take a broker like IB, they must get multiple orders every second going every which direction. If I place a buy order for 100k, then someone sells 100k 20 seconds later, how would that look different...

how close to close did you submit your cancel orders?

is this kind of artificial market manipulation legal?

maybe he is considering starting his own forex signal service and is testing the waters.

I was in a trade this morning and noticed that IB was showing a positive unrealized P/L while my automated system was showng a negative. I realize that the IB number does not include commissions and my system does but the difference the two was large (100$~when commis is only about 10$). Has...

Hey Guys. I was wondering if there was any way to get an equity curve from IB's TWS for my trades thats have gone through over the past 1.5 months?

you win. in my own defense. when was the last time you heard someone say 'im going on vacation to the netherlands.' might as well be its own country :p

Do you use a Forex Signals Alert Service? (Y/N): N

because they arnt referred to as mess ups if you make money, they become 'undocumented features'.

agreed the price will go down. with it ever be worthless? of course not. Its possible that the crops will actually gain value when other avenues of use open due to legalization. Clothing etc al. How much is the cotton crop worth? and as you said its easier on the soil, unlike cotton. plus...

How long did it take you until you could give your system unsupervised?

really? is the tobacco crop worthless? id place it somewhere between cigarettes and alcohol as far as a recreational drug. plus at least weed has medical uses, chief amoungst is cancer patients on chemo, with the number of US citizens diagnosed being in the eight digits now. just look at the...

nice. all we need now is a future for it. then i can start arbing it against cheetos futures.

hmm. part of being a good trader and system designer is being able to look at a good / bad trades and being able to understand what made them good or bad, in order to improve in the future. in this case, the fact that the data feed stopped working and the system was unable to exit the position...

? none of the bad trades so far were IB's fault. IB is having a system wide issues today. personally I think the risk of asking them is worth the possible reward. if i was in frost's position i would give them a call even at the risk of being called an idiot. i learnt a long time ago you might...

could always ask IB to bust the trade or write off the loss for you. doubt they will do it but might be worth a shot. it was their fault after all. they are ridiculously profitable right now, and I've noticed a trend that they are trying to combat their bad customer service rep.

why on earth would that infromation be useful to you?