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You mean the Russian mafia has been, um, diversifying its operations into forex? Aah, those good ol' secure days of RefcoFX...

Correct, they are not a member of the NFA. Furthermore, they are not registered with the CFTC. They claim to be registered with the (Swiss) FSC... yeah, good to know. The $5 minimum ought to be viewed as a red flag, not a selling point...

Take a look at this PowerPoint presentation (right-click to save): http://rapidshare.de/files/9465169/IntroductionToForexTrading.ppt It's called "Introduction to Forex Trading". Because it's no longer available from the original source, I've uploaded it to RapidShare. It's an e-course...

There is no delivery to prevent for NQ. In fact, most existing futures contracts worldwide -- including all equity index and currency futures -- are subject to cash settlement, as opposed to physical delivery. If you, the holder of either a long or a short position in such a future, take no...

Many public libraries have it.

Somebody has... 1. CME (1972) 2. Eurex (2005) :D

The standard industry practice on the institutional buy side has always been to base all types of client fees on account NAV, marked to market. Regardless of asset classes involved. That's what I still do. If you think of it, that's really the only fair way to do it, barring some extremely...

Just curious -- is anyone able to view this thread in Mozilla Firefox? Asking because ever since that multimedia post a week ago, whenever I click on this thread, all my Firefox windows / tabs (typically as many as 15-20 tabs across 2-4 windows) are terminated immediately. Instant kill, in a...

How about Excel?...

Just forget everything you ever learned about ticks and make the switch over to pips now.

Aah, yes. Versions of this short horror story have somewhat of a long and colorful history... http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1439751 :cool: :)

svtrader, don't know whether this is part of the problem or not, but you'll want to clear your Java cache and upgrade to Version 1.5.0 Update 6. Some apps, e.g., TradeBullet, will not even work with Java 1.4. Or it may be a problem with corrupted file(s) in your Jts directory. Search ET or...

Perhaps exactly the same requirements as for "Infinite Wealth" (Van Tharp / Robert Kiyosaki). It's in the eye of the beholder; different for everyone. Seriously.

Well, you'd better believe it. PM me for details, if interested. Absolutely, commission rate is obviously just one of several key factors in choosing a dealer / dealers to do business with.

Not just match... beat. The reality is that if you're doing half-decent monthly volume, I can tell you that COESfx will, in fact, easily beat every commission rate mentioned so far in this thread. Their (relatively high) published rate is not even in the ballpark. Note that all the...

I understand you've signed an NDA. Since you've mentioned position size, could you at least also indicate approximately what leverage the senior traders at your firm typically use? For each position, as well as for the account as a whole. I think that would be a truly helpful reality check to...

You are neglecting the negative carry on the cash leg of your arb trade, about -2.4% APR, and probably going higher between now and March. Say, you are short 1 6EH6 (March '06 Euro FX future) @1.2028 and long 125,000 EUR/USD @1.1971, actual price levels right now, shortly after 6 pm EST...

I can recommend these 2 apps for Windows automation. Both are powerful, popular and free. 1) AutoIt (the original one and still going strong after 7 years). I've used it for quite some time. 2) AutoHotkey (an open-source newcomer, based on AutoIt's source code) See reviews of both...

Markets often act so as to confound the greatest number of participants possible.

The only "local" news catalyst was the quarterly Tankan Large Manufacturers Index. It came in this morning (6:50 pm EST last night) at 21, under consensus of 24, but still the strongest in a year. Otherwise, yeah, just the herd. :) The commentary I've seen suggests mass profit taking on a...