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Did you happen to notice whether your "Market data" indicator button (bottom right side of TWS workspace, next to the clock) changed from green background color to yellow or red? That's one way to tell.

Good, useful overview of FX dealer-to-client platforms. Thanks.

That's true. Too bad ET doesn't allow multi-question polls. Just think of the creative possibilities...

Interesting poll. However, wouldn't the interpretation of the poll results be somewhat of a challenge, without knowing the respondents' distribution by asset class traded -- equities, futures, options, forex?

Same issue here... intermittent (maybe once or twice a week), ET only, Firefox 1.0.4. However, no more browsing with IE for me... not worth the risks. I either pick a sub-URL from the suggestion drop-down menu (such as http://www.elitetrader.com/vb) or bypass the front page altogether and...

For $9.00, you can get one day's access (should be enough) to Hulbert Financial Digest online.

There are some MM's with "mini-mini-lots" of 1,000 units, FX Solutions being one of the better known / progressive ones. I've no personal experience with FXSol, though. I think it'd be tough for a retail forex trader to find a dealer matching Oanda's tight spreads, other than (promising but...

Exactly. Put another way, Oanda's de facto initial margin is 2%, maintenance margin -- 1%. The position will be closed automatically, via a margin call, after several platform warnings, when half (rather than all) the money is gone. For instance, with a $10K account, the most EUR/USD one...

The problem has been resolved within the last half hour, looking at my TWS. I certainly hope that, looking back a year from now, this will have been an isolated, extremely rare incident with the otherwise very promising IDEAL Pro forex platform.

Yes, that's absolutely correct. The stop, rather than the limit, is the only price that matters for queue placement by the GLOBEX matching engine.

Yes. And other majors and crosses. They're still working to resolve the issue.

OK, that would be a different scenario. In the first scenario, 10 and 15 are not-yet-triggered sell stops (as part of either a sell stop or a sell stop limit), placed below the current market at 17. Therefore, the offer @15 (No. 2) must be be triggered first and has a higher priority. In...

Oh, not that kind of slowness. I think ES was referring to the company's pace of new features implementation, such as trailing stops, etc. When it comes to volatile, fast-moving markets, Oanda's platform usually remains both stable and tradeable, in my limited experience with them. As long...

A sell limit order is placed above the current price, not below it. What you are describing calls for a sell stop (non-native) or sell stop limit (native). With that out of the way, the order matching algorithm for CME GLOBEX currency futures is based on 2 factors -- price and time, in that...

Colombo, You haven't mentioned and no one has brought up yet the most obvious, basic questions in my mind (and I've been through a not-unlike experience, albeit not entirely voluntarily). Such as: 1. What are your personal risk profile and personality like? How risk-loving...

As has been correctly stated, the answer is 44. There are 44 times during the (24-hour) day when the hour hand and the minute hand form a right, 90-degree angle. One possible reasoning: there are 2 right angles every hour, with 2 exceptions: 2-3 and 8-9, when there is only 1 right angle...

Ask yourself: What is my account size, relative to the size of the instruments I'll be trading? What is my leverage? What is my typical stop size and % risk per trade? How many currency pairs will I be trading simultaneously? Depending on your answers, futures, despite some of their key...

IB charges 0.4 pip or $5.00 per RT, whichever is greater. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/fees/commissionForex.php?ib_entity=llc#currency As far as I know, all other firms with a similar (transparent commission) business model require trade size in integer multiples of 1 lot...

Close, but not quite. That URL should be http://www.greencompany.com/ His book is outstanding, too.

Cool... any time. Actually, don't remember how I discovered this feature. Maybe saw it while working my way through TWS online documentation, when I was new to IB... or while playing with the menus... or maybe it was even mentioned on an online forum such as this one. You'll want to read (or...