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You are absolutley right...and I see it every night when I am standing duty over a shift or "watch" change...they yank it this way and that and forex can run against you in the blink of an eye...for no (apparent) reason... They do it every day and all week long. Once you get used to it...

Spoken like a true equity trader...and utter rubish...

Bump to the top... I think Alaron has this contract (DX)...but would like to hear from some one who trades it... Imagine the zillions of trading zombies frettign over the ES and SP... Meanwhile a contract traded against an index of the largest capital-cash market goes largly...

I use Black Flag Forex and Market Vane among others... Black Flag has a retail product called FxMoneyTrends... I strongly recommend that as a start... Samples? Before I signed on with them I requested 3 months of all diseminations they had sent out...every daily and every weekly...

Its not easy...and its frought with peril... My point is to seek out institutional advisory services and not just one. Pay the money. If you don't you will lose what you have twice as fast. Apply your own understanding to swing trading with what the advisory information your getting...

Take a look at this... the first link is an image of the June Suisse Franc contracts... the second is the forex data... Notice three things about the first chart compared to the second chart... First we rolled out of March contracts on the second thursday of the month...and the data...

No and Yes... It does not come back to the same thing when the Dollar is the numerator of the pair... Euro is EURUSD...and the Euro is worth more than 1 dollar...so...the euro contract is roughly the same as the pair or cross rate... However... The Yen is USDYEN...and the Yen is...

Black Flag Forex...FxMoneyTrends... Expensive (100-200) a month...but wait...that doesn't sound too expensive does it? Seek out institutional advisory services...pay the coin...apply your own thinking as a filter... FxMoneyTrends called this CHF trade long at 1.2950...and called that...

All or nothing... Open an account with Interactive Brokers and you can trade it all...Forex, Capital and derivitives.. Whatever floats your boat... If your an elliot wave trader, and swing in and out with trades ebbing and flowing a position over weeks and maybe months...

It doesn't work like that...or not entirely... The one thing that is critically important to understand is that contracts are derivitives of the currency...and not a derivitive of the "Pair". This is super critical to understand because if you want go long the USDJPY pair, you need to...

Where in the world did you get that idea? Some day trading book written 1999?

10 Grand a week avg. and climbing... Spend the money, 150-250 a month for an instituional advisory service... And when you start making money...find a second institutional advisory service and spend another 150 bucks a month... Also trade future contracts...they have mini...

I am looking for an electronic clearing broker that carrys USDX contracts. My current broker is IB...and I have no intentions of no longer using them. However...they do not carry USDX via NYBOT's agreement with CBOT... Can anyone point to a source where I can trade these contracts...

I can understand why there would be no uranium futures contracts.... Am I missing somthing...a search of the internet yields references to uranium contracts...but never anything substanative... Any help appreciated... Scott

IB is stripped of superfluous software and features for one reason: Low Cost. The real question is what is the best Forex centric data feed and platform available to couple up with an IB account for executions. This assumes of course you are not interested in 'integrated' order management...

Nothing governs the movement of one currency against another more than the yields of that currency's central bank. Right now the USD enjoys an interest rate advantage, and it is that advantage that has driven the dollar higher against the euro. Find data for both the FEDS rate and ECB...

IQFeed does indeed support depth L2 Here are the return formats when listening to the L2 Socket port: Please note that the line terminators are being used by the message board text box and dont show up in these return examples...terminators are CR and LF...

To see the problem with IB data feed, just create a double column T&S display and try to synch link the size and price change events together...it will become apparent in a New York minute what is going on. Another clue that the feed was only intended originally to populate a grid style...

"Stop nickle and diming your customers and you'll have more of them." LOL...you got that right.

IB Data is not a real data feed as others have said here. First off understand that the "Ticks" are reported in two seperate events - one for price and one for size. Further, a report or event is only fired if one of the prior paramters change, either price, type or size of the tick...