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    Oanda just another bucket shop

    Brokers that use the Saxobank fx trading plarform(under the White label partnership), will offer more exotic pairs, such as Tradefreedom FX , I'm not sure how good are they for newstrading, scalping etc.
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    Housing is rolling downhill.
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    IB IDEAL PRO EURGBP Calculation help

    A single PIP[=0.0001] move of your underlying 100,000 EUR is = 100,000 x [0.0001]GBP = 10 GBP = $18.171 USD Thus, the answer is $18.171 USD.
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    Oanda down??????

    I was able to log-in to oanda one minute ago.
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    Gasoline heading to $3 and more

    For the lowest gas prices in US and Canada you can always check http://gasbuddy.com/ Currently the lowest gas pricess seem to be in Utah ($2.11/gal) and Wyoming ($2.13/gal).
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    Interesting recent action by Canadian brokers...

    RBC Action Direct is also reducing its' commissions to around $9.95/trade for active traders making 30+ trades per quarter, starting May22 It looks like they are simply price matching each other.
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    Trading Technologies awarded patent for DOM

    PFG, Inc. and TT Resolve Electronic Trading Patent Dispute "Under the settlement, TT acknowledged that it has never asserted infringement against PFG’s BEST Direct™ online trading platform and agreed that the BEST Direct™ product does not infringe the patents-in-suit. "
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    USD/JPY * EUR/USD = EUR/JPY always?

    There's no mystery in this fact, the proof is very simple, from basic fractions math , we have: a/c * b/a = ab/ca = b/c If one substitutes , a=USD , b=EUR , c=JPY , the following equation follows: USD/JPY * EUR/USD = EUR/JPY
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    IB Trouble

    I had the problem when I upgraded from TWS 818 to 819.3, the java upgrade solved it.
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    IB Trouble

    Try to upgrade to the latest Java 2 Runtime environment v. 1.4.2_04
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    IB TWS Can't log in 3/16/04

    I had exactly the same problem after upgrading to TWS 819. Both will start, TWS-browser will login, but TWS standalone will not login. A solution that works is to uninstall old JavaRE and install the new j2re-1_4_2_04 .
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    Dual OS's

    It does not require additional hard drive. You can install XP Pro and W2K pro on the same hard drive (but on different partitions). For dual boot Xp must be installed on different partition than W2k is installed on. If you haven't created a second partition prior to installing W2k, you can...
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    NASDAQ and NYSE merger

    "The Nasdaq Stock Market has approached the New York Stock Exchange to explore the possibility of a merger of the two giant marketplaces... " What will be the potential advantages and disadvantages?
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    Exporting jobs

    Investment banks intend to outsource about 8% of the US financial research jobs in the next 5 years. Highlights: ... India to expand outsourcing basket with new services
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    J-Trader $4.80 Round Turn

    Mark, Can customers deposit/withdraw funds to and from AF by electornic ACH transfer? What are the fees for incoming/outgoing wire transfers? When Eurex US launches on February 1, 2004, I hope AF rates for 'elitetraders' for Eurex US, will stay competitive with those of IB? Are...
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    I found the Holy Grail

    33% chance of success is not a holy grail, imho.
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    Grasso $5mil bonus...

    There's more related news: Washington Post: <a href=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62751-2003Sep11.html>Grasso Handpicked Pay Panel</a> Newsday: <a href=http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-grasso0919,0,7348989.story?coll=ny-business-headlines> NYSE Discloses Additional $48M...
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    Broker for 50/100 trades day, low commisions

    Hello NSFTrader, You need a broker that supports Market-on-Open (MOO), Limit-on-Open (LOO), Market-on-Close (MOC), and Limit-on-Close (LOC) orders. The only retail broker that supports them, as far as I know, is IB.
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    1000 QQQ SSF trading is better than NQ.

    Yes. Commissions for trading NQ are 300% the 1000 QQQ ssf commissions, no matter how many contracts you trade. QQQ SSF has 20% margin requirement (= 5:1 leverage), while NQ has up to 5% daytrading leverage. If you want more than 5:1 leverage you can trade NQ and pay 300% the QKQ...
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    1000 QQQ SSF trading is better than NQ.

    The 1k shares QQQ Single Stock Futures(SSF) contract(Sumbol QKQ), released recently, is potentially a much better trading instrument than the Nadaq 100 Emini futures NQ. Lets compare them: ________________QKQ_______________NQ |...
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