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Thanks for the links. From what I can tell, if you are intraday trading with liquid pairs such as EURUSD and GBPUSD, then currency futures are they way to go :)

Sorry if this has been discussed before. I have been trading spot forex for the past two years and recently became interested in currency futures because of their lower transaction price. The more and more I research it, it became clear that the spot forex market is a big shame setup to take...

Thanks for everyones help. I am trading CME. I am interested in either stop or limit orders. My current broker does not have this feature and I have been slipped up to 10 ticks trading currency futuers during news time. It would be great to find a broker that will not slip me and will...

Are there any brokers or trading platforms that can provide a "Fill or Kill" limit order for futures trading? For example, if I place a limit order at price X trading the emini S&P during a very volitile time, I want to either be filled at that price or have the order canceled (ie: no...

My current charting program makes me scroll through all the days and its really anoying.....

Is there a free charting program (web based or stand alone) where I can jump to a specific day in the past and look at the 1 minute chart? For example, I want to look at the open on September 8, 2006 on a 1 minute chart. Thanks for any help.

Ahhh I feel like I am going crazy. My broker (Saxo) is now telling me that all brokers, even US brokers will first convert your account balance to GBP if you are trying to go long GBP. I have been trading forex for a few years and I always thought I could open a position with full...

How can any trading be 100% anonymous if they need to identify your account positions to credit you with P/L? I think when brokers use the term "anonymous" they only mean that they dont share your name/details with the liquidity providers.

I opened an account with Saxo Bank London to trade Forex. I was surprised to see my leveraged buying power at half of what I have with my US brokers (both are 100:1) It seems they convert my USD deposit to GBP, then give me leverage on that smaller amount. I not sure how/why they do this...

Thomfergu, Sorry for coming off harsh before. I am still learning to trade myself so please bear with me. When you place your order through your broker, they do NOT have to fill you right away. They can send it to a Market Maker (MM) who has the option of sitting on it and waiting. What...

So it has nothing to do with the larger S&P index? Is there anyway to tell future price action by looking at volume in the bid or ask columns of a trading ladder?

If I was your broker I would tell you thats exactly how this game is played. The MM and brokers are out there to make money, sometimes at your expense. Learn how to use level II quotes and ECN and you will play the MM and not have to put up with their crap.

I would imagine that if you had full access to level II quotes it would show you all of the MMs that are playing. Maybe its only showing you ECN orders since you dont have full access to level II? Try some other symbols and see if you can spot any other MMs. I think arcx is the same...

ARCA is not a MM it is an ECN. Examples of true MM on your level II would be GSOC = Goldman Sachs MSCO = Morgan Stanley etc.

I am probably making this more difficult then it should be, but, what makes the emini S&P index go up and down? Is its price dervived from the larger S&P index which inturn dervives its price from its component stocks? Or, is the mini S&P a seperate entity that moves up and down based soley...

Yes. That is very true. I did interfere with the system on occasion which I should have mentioned and I apologize for that. However, 95% of the time I do not interfere with the system and it is very rare for my results to match the ones on C2. C2 seems to average the multiple trades made...

Ironically my results for today match the ones on C2, -10 points :( A wise man once told me that it does not matter how often you win vs. loose, it only matters how much you win when you win and how much you loose when you loose. The problem with SteadyII is that the wins are usually very...

Hello everyone, I am happy to discuss SteadyII with other people (besides my broker). I have been trading SteadyII since it started in November on a live account (yes, I’m a risk taker) :) So far my results are not even close to Collective2. In fact, I dont even bother going to the...