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- Pearl Jam replied May 6, 2010
Thanks, I had my eye on interactive brokers. So you have generally been happy with them?
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Anyone use a good prime broker that they would recommend? Looking for something low cost with and ...
- Pearl Jam replied Feb 25, 2010
Brokers that don't take the other side of your trade, but serve as pure intermediaries, are called ECNs. Some retail brokers will say they have no dealing desk, but I guess it's just up to you to trust them.
- Pearl Jam replied Feb 5, 2010
And of course the key to making big money is predicting changes in these fundamental drivers. Like we saw yesterday- flight to quality, i.e. US Treasuries, drove the dollar up big despite the economic weakness and declining US interest rates. This ...
- Pearl Jam replied Jan 6, 2010
Ha good point... the negative expected return doesn't help your chances.
- Pearl Jam replied Jan 6, 2010
Unrealistic goals, poor understanding of leverage (or risk in general) and complete ignorance of macroeconomics.
- Pearl Jam replied Jan 5, 2010
Or you could just go outside and throw $1,000 cash into a lake.
- Pearl Jam replied Jan 5, 2010
There are plenty of lists. The economist does one, so does US News and World Report, Business week. Any one of those. I'd suggest "Google". It's this cool new thing where you can just type in what you want and it finds websites related to it.
- Pearl Jam replied Jan 5, 2010
Go to a top 10 graduate business school and you'll find a job in institutional forex.
- Pearl Jam replied Jan 5, 2010
You think prime brokers are requoting billion dollar hedge funds? Institutional traders use lower leverage. Retail traders get wiped out at a 95% rate. You make the connection.
- Pearl Jam replied Jan 5, 2010
People who say they want to earn 1% a day using those rules are violating one of your basic principles of goal setting- Realism. If you are only risking 1% of your account to earn 1% daily, you have to double all the money you put at risk every ...
- Pearl Jam replied Dec 20, 2009
Ha if you could do that you'd have over 5 billion dollars.
- Pearl Jam replied Dec 16, 2009
Not to nitpick, but children also usually have infinite discount rates. If you ask them if they'd rather have a lollipop or go to disney world next week, they'll usually take the lollipop.
- Pearl Jam replied Dec 11, 2009
Of course any action taken by the Fed is going to have an impact on that given day (or even simply their words), but I think your question is whether they take an active role in moving the currency markets, and the answer is no in both the long term ...
- Pearl Jam replied Dec 10, 2009
To understand the current paradigm I think you have to go back a few months to when the market was really melting down. Investors around the world piled into US Treasuries as the only "safe" investments which drove the price of the dollar up. Now, ...
- Pearl Jam replied Dec 9, 2009
Zero sum market - transaction costs = negative expected return. You have to have some special abilities or other advantage to expect to win consistently.
- Pearl Jam replied Dec 9, 2009
I guess it depends on your style. I feel like if you trade on fundamentals you never stop following and analyzing news. that's a 24 hour a day job. I am new to currency but that's how I've approached every other type of investment.
- Pearl Jam replied Dec 8, 2009
My best guess would be countless hours of hard work, a lifetime of training, discipline and an inquisitive personality.
- Pearl Jam replied Dec 4, 2009
I can't find anything about this on the NFA website... can we get a link or something? Or is it just a proposal?
- Pearl Jam replied Dec 4, 2009
The simplest and cheapest way is to do your transactions in US Dollars, or with a USD exchange rate specified in advance. If that's not possible, the best hedging option really depends on the nature of the cash flows. You can hedge using futures, ...