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- mrcooldude replied Mar 20, 2007
i had an issue transferring funds to FXDD once from another US broker. they refused to transfer the funds to FXDD because FXDD is not a registered FCM. yet other brokers i'm with happily transferred funds to my FXDD account. i think as a general ...
- mrcooldude replied Mar 19, 2007
i used them for a while. they're as honest as most others. don't think they'd run away with your money. however, they weren't registered with the NFA last time i checked. their execution is a little better than most retail brokers i've tried - ...
- mrcooldude replied Oct 8, 2006
residency issues for australians — Thuxen, There are some other issues which you should be aware of... you may find that you’ll still be an AU resident for tax purposes. If you visit the ATO website, there is a simple questionnaire which you ...
- mrcooldude replied Oct 5, 2006
haha! I'm actually an IB for an IB as well!!! this is what i love about the forex game... ANYTHING GOES! you can do pretty much whatever the hell you want. so the amount of money you make is limited only by your own creativity about how work all ...
- mrcooldude replied Oct 3, 2006
it seems as though what you want is access to a multibank platform, where participating banks are your counterparties. Currenex, as already mentioned in this thread, is one such multibank platform. but there are a few others which you'll find with a ...
- mrcooldude replied Oct 1, 2006
Darkstar, I wasn't disputing the point you made about Oanda. I just wanted to clarify what Currenex is since it is a common source of confusion. Anyway, happy trading
- mrcooldude replied Sep 30, 2006
Darkstar, You speak of Currenex rates – there is no-such thing, since Currenex is not a liquidity provider; it's just a software company. For example, I use the Currenex platform with a couple of different brokers, and each price-feed is slightly ...
- mrcooldude replied Sep 30, 2006
Tsicby, retail market markers typically do not offer complete transparency. The rates you get from a market maker are the market maker’s rates, which will usually be wider but roughly synchronised with the rates they’re getting from their liquidity ...
- mrcooldude replied Jun 27, 2006
how did you get on manual execution? — to those people who were put on manual execution, how long did it take for FXCM to put you on manual execution? and were you entering and exiting trades within 2 minutes, and/or comparing different price ...
- mrcooldude replied Jun 27, 2006
forex tax in AUS — Nash, i've recently had to face the tax issues here in AUS in regard to my forex profits, which is my primary source of income. i did extensive research, asking lots of other people about their setups and talking to ...
- mrcooldude replied May 17, 2006
As far as I'm aware, false advertising is illegal. So legaility does have something to do with it. Perhaps my post needs some clarification. My definition of taking money from suckers does not mean stealing money from them and/or telling lies. It's ...
- mrcooldude replied May 17, 2006
I can relate to you in some respects… the reason I started Forex trading is because I wanted to get rich quick. I can be a very lazy and impatient person, so full-time work didn’t suite me at all, plus I don’t respond well to authority. I went off ...
- mrcooldude replied May 17, 2006
How do you know they’re not trying to solicit for paid services, or subtly advertise something? I think it’s an important part of due diligence not to take any credentials posted anonymously on a public forum too seriously. Some people might be ...
- mrcooldude replied Feb 6, 2006
IB for currency conversion — I noticed that they offer a currency conversion service, whereby, you can deposit and withdraw in different currencies (after converting using their service). Anybody tried doing this with IB? just wondering if ...
- mrcooldude replied Feb 6, 2006
I can kinda answer 2. for you. FIX is just a protocal specificaction, which basically describes the syntax used for sending requests to their server etc.... it's a protocol designed specifically for trading. API trading with them doesn't mean you've ...
- mrcooldude replied Jan 8, 2006
order execution — IBFX customers: how is order execution with IBFX? you get many market orders rejected? or much slippage?
- mrcooldude replied Jan 8, 2006
fair game? i'm not sure if you'll find such a thing in the financial markets. everybody is competing for any edge they can get, including the dealers. i would expect them to do everything they can get away with to make profit. if they didn't make ...
- mrcooldude replied Jan 7, 2006
hey I happen to enjoy reading bugaboo broker tales. the more exaggerated and dramatic the better! Why do you think that FXCM is one of the best brokers? I mean, what do you like about them? I've been thinking about joining for a while... a couple ...
- mrcooldude replied Jan 4, 2006
distros, fracals, and chaos — The fact that the markets are best described by power law distributions (infinite variance!!!) is why trading strategies such as the one used by Richard Dennis' "turtles" succeeded. They took advantage of infinite ...
- mrcooldude replied Jan 3, 2006
Thanks JohnFX. would have taken me all day to find it otherwise It's facinating how the different brokers charge/pay different amounts of interest for the same curreny pairs. either they don't stick with the inter-bank SWAP rates, or there's ...