about time someone understand where im comming from. i heard about ebs, barx about there spreads are not that good, witch is a surprise.Quote from traderlong:
Moe,
I forgot to mention that once you get to the BARX, EBS, etc. platform you will be very disappointed by the spreads. The higher end is not as high end as you'd think. The retail outfits are quite good. I mean, imagine this kind of retail access back in 2000? Unthinkable back then unless you had at least 5 mill to trade.
I know what Moe wants. He is trying to prepare for the future and not have to switch brokers later because his order size increases and his current broker puts a cap on it.
So far:
Oanda: 10 mill max
IB; 6 mill max (on E/U)
Dukascopy: 500 mill max (I think)
Currenex: not sure, but I'm sure it is in the 100s mill
Quote from IShopAtPublix:
The question in this thread is legitimate. I have always wondered how much you can do per click (Online not over the phone obviously) in terms of forex brokers. If you have $2 million (and I don't) could you open a position of 100 mil(50:1)? How much of an impact would it have on price? What about a 300 mill position. Would it make EUR/USD go from 1.2588 to like 1.3000(or 1.5000?) or 1.2600?
I heard EUR/USD has $800 billion daily volume. So you can easily "park" 1 billion dollars there without destroying the price.

Quote from Moe27:
10 damn pages and nothing but junk talk, man you guys are real pro's.
Quote from traderlong:
Hi,
The answer to your question is that it would take more than 1 billion to move the market during peak hours. After hours is another story (just like YM after hours). The RBA just spent 3 billion trying to rescue the AUD. No CB has enough reserves to reverse a major trend. All they can do is try and manipulate other traders into taking positions in the direction of the new "trend". Here is an example of when the RBNZ (usually pretty open about their policy) intervened and failed to reverse the major trend in 2007. I guess they finally got what they wished for (perhaps more than they bargained for).
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