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- dakoo replied Mar 29, 2012
That being said, i do remember a couple of months back reading oanda had a 50% profitable client figure. Let me look for the link... url Oanda plays less manipulation games than others, maybe thats why their percentage is higher. And I believe the ...
- dakoo replied Mar 29, 2012
Ah you misunderstood, the average balance at my broker is north of 100k, perhaps that is why the percentage is higher. a more professional clientele
- dakoo replied Mar 29, 2012
The real winner percentage is 40% — While signing brokerage agreements i remember seeing a disclosure of profitable client percentages for each of the past 12 months. Some months it was as low as 40% and others as high as 51% of the firm's ...
- dakoo replied Feb 14, 2012
IB USA accounts use a unique sweeping method of segregation. According to US rules stock trading accounts are insured $500000 cash but futures and forex accounts are not insured. So what IB does is use only the margin required for trade in futures ...
- dakoo replied Feb 14, 2012
at 3130 i felt some biggy was defending and buying heavily. twice it tried to breach 3130 but both times price used to zoom 3 to 4 pips in a second to 3134. Looked like buying in lots on 200M that go straight through the price. probably some CB.
- dakoo replied Feb 14, 2012
FTI you should try InteractiveBrokers. They have the top ten banks quoting with extremely tight spreads and large market depth and zero broker games. I deal with them. Safest deposits, and well capitalized and members of more than 60 exchanges. Have ...
- dakoo replied Feb 13, 2012
Am out at 60. Action is Feeling funny.
- dakoo replied Feb 13, 2012
EURUSD My cost basis is 3258.
- dakoo replied Jan 10, 2012
To open you need to deposit 10k. but in order for you to have trading facility 2500 must be minimum maintained at all times. Ib leverage for major pairs is 1:40 . to your example, Fee is $20 per million dollars transacted. The current exchange rate ...
- dakoo replied Jan 10, 2012
true. i havent had a data disconnection at ib in more than 3 months, and when it did happen it was back on in 3 minutes. think of it this way quadruplex, at some point that 20 minute oanda connection loss is going to be far more expensive than a ...
- dakoo replied Jan 10, 2012
Nice to see you around fti. Hope you are in a better state. Good to see TAF thread still going strong. I had a question FTI.According to your understanding why is intraday volatility so low in USDJPY? It remains in a quiet trading range and all of ...
- dakoo replied Jan 10, 2012
What is your startup capital btw. Because the higher it is the more you need a serious brokerage. IB would require you to start with $10000. But that is just for opening balance. Afterwards you can keep lower balances as low as 2500. But to take ...
- dakoo replied Jan 9, 2012
So what do you commonly trade starbucks?
- dakoo replied Jan 9, 2012
Well as of right now we are in tokyo hours and the spread is 1 pip on: EURUSD USDJPY GBPUSD AUDUSD EURJPY EURGBP For the majors the liquidity on 1 pip is greater or close to 5M. I pay $15/million dollars dealt, so my total cost would come to 1.4 on ...
- dakoo replied Jan 9, 2012
The interactive brokers structure is much better than a futures account segregation. It is kept in an SIPC account( a US govt scheme). each account is insured upto $500000 cash. so in case of misappropriation of funds, not just the broker but Uncle ...
- dakoo replied Jan 9, 2012
I trade with IB. There isn't a broker thats better for FX. Large pool of liquidity providers, tightest spreads, zero manipulation, fast data transmission, low fees and access to other markets as well. They have the FX trader feature in TWS platform ...
- dakoo replied Jan 9, 2012
While this indicator setup looks pretty, it is nothing more than a 40 or 50 MA. try it. the HA is close to equal to it. Good luck with the testing though.
- dakoo replied Aug 10, 2011
Futures volume on EUR for the entire day is 45Billion more or less. No comparison. During active hours in spot 15M barely registers. However even if you end up moving price 1 pip, price would tend to oscillate around the area, and thus have another ...
- dakoo replied Aug 10, 2011
THanks for your input. IB has all the top 10 banks as liquidity provider except deutsche. according to BIS the average minute in the european session transacts 1billion dollars worth of EUR USD. So this volume i'm seeing is not tick it's possibly ...
- dakoo replied Aug 9, 2011
I'm seeing actual fx volume on Interactive Brokers — The charting platform is ninjatrader. I have attached a 10 min EUR.USD chart. It show on average a volume of over 12 Billion on most bars, which is a fairly accurate figure compared to the ...