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rate hike worries? Bonds getting hit hard too.

With this morning's NFP numbers, figured the dollar would sell off hard, but instead it get's stronger as the S&P firms up too. Euro selling off hard. Is the divergent correlation over? If so, changes how to approach this market.

Sigh. this is just getting pathetic

The minimum commission EACH way is $2.50 or 5$ rt. As to a better way to trade in fx, use bigger lot sizes. A 200k trade puts you back at the .00002 area. The commission hurts far less with size.

OK. Did the Politico, but where is the link for the Hill artilcle?

Sent my letter or Rep Sires of Hudson Cnty, NJ to urge him to join the Dear Colleague protest as it would affect his constituency as much as anywhere, since Jersey City is the home of many firm's back office operations and lower paid employees. Got to get all these Reps local to these markets to...

You can't link everything to Obama and the WH.

Wow! That was like finally getting a date with the hot chick you've always wanted to date from the office across the hall only to find out she has b.o. and doesn't shave her pits or legs.

Bush pulled the US out of Kyoto for this same reason and got crucified for it.

And they want to us to pay transaction tax to trade this product too?

The accompanying statement is what really matters.

Yes, and since RBA Deputy Governor Ric Battellino said last week that Australian economy has entered new phase of growth to last for years it is expected another increase is coming - but a move in the Aussie MAY already be priced in. Attention will be on the accompanying statement for future...

Oh yeah, my bad. Got confused. Mea culpa.

Royal Bank Of Australia meeting tonight to discuss rates. Expected to raise them another .25%. Just a heads up.

Then I hope he learned a lesson not to follow someone's calls.

And what was your point?

What do you mean by better margin? Reg-T is Reg-t. Or is this about Portfolio Margins, where IB starts at 100k? Or was this a reference to better margin rates? If it is about rates, then you have to figure the cost of holding vs commission because your IB commission will be higher (flat rate)...

A report I read today detailed some major trophy properties in NYC that will probably be sold for a song to ease some of the debt of the Dubai sovereign fund, notably the Essex House and the Barney's retail stores/chains. The fear is that other sovereign funds may start facing similar a credit...

Son, the only evident piker here in this part of the forum is you, as evidenced by your rambling questions hoping someone will lay out the Holy Grail for you and your sometimes (sometimes?) idiotic statements like the one above. You bounce from options to forex to futures and back again like a...

They WERE outrageous. Now they are more reasonable, and still more expensive than straight-up pairs trading than IB. But there are some advantages, mainly being better margining on exotic pairs than how IB calculated their margins. And you can still trade sizes smaller than the 25k notional...