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- Saskabacha replied Jan 5, 2020
Driven18, I feel your pain! We are completely out of options in the US. We are no longer welcome customers to ANY reputable international broker (courtesy of the CFTC / NFA international brow-beat), and the handful of brokers we have here are all ...
- Saskabacha replied Jan 2, 2020
I was doing great until 3 months ago and at that point I just started treading water, even down a bit. I never know if it's something I have done or if the market dynamics have changed. I guess that's the fun of trading, bit of art bit of science! ...
- Saskabacha replied Dec 31, 2019
Hutch, what's your view on Brexit? I'm long pound just to play the swings and the long-term technical uptrend. I try to hedge big dates. Curious to know if you have a view...
- Saskabacha replied Dec 31, 2019
I think I know what the confusion is. Are you using a system where if you buy 100 EURUSD and later 300 EURUSD there is only one line that shows 400 EURUSD? If you're using such a system (position netting) then FIFO doesn't even make sense. It's not ...
- Saskabacha replied Dec 30, 2019
I haven't been following swaps too carefully since they were never an issue until after this policy change. Based on my limited experience / tracking this is what I see. Right around now Oanda puts up a new day on their website (this case, for ...
- Saskabacha replied Dec 30, 2019
I'm trying to hedge the really huge negative numbers by collecting the opposite swap in a subaccount. It's not great since you still have the pay the "spread on the swap" which is huge, but I'm not going to get pushed into closing positions. But ...
- Saskabacha replied Dec 30, 2019
We'll, I've finally taken the "red pill". I notice that Hutch has been with Forex Factory since 2010 so I'm sure it's been entertaining around the holiday season for each of the last 9 years ... It's Christmas Time for the brokers!!!! Nothing more, ...
- Saskabacha replied Dec 29, 2019
Here it is, if any of you guys want it. To hedge over new years, or whatever ...
- Saskabacha replied Dec 29, 2019
MagPI, I guess it's just you and me ... I can't figure out how to scrape this fees webpage (hard for me, they rendered it with javascript), so I manually saved pdf's and typed the swap numbers into a spreadsheet from Dec18 - today for 21 currencies ...
- Saskabacha replied Dec 29, 2019
Ok, JTevens. Point taken. I was actually enjoying the back-and-forth about swaps and sharing some ideas of how to trade with this "fact of life". Is there anything in particular (with a higher degree of professionalism) that you would prefer to ...
- Saskabacha replied Dec 29, 2019
Is this true? That is what Oanda claimed. And Oanda is an international company, applying their new swap rules around the world ..... Still, I see this uncanny parallel between the new swap policy and the initial / maintenance margin in the US ...
- Saskabacha replied Dec 29, 2019
MagPI, thanks for the information about Interactive Brokers. I'm sure the Oanda finance changes will all settle down in the New Year, the company will stay quiet or blame it on liquidity, the financing fees webpage will cycle-off the evidence after ...
- Saskabacha replied Dec 28, 2019
Lesson learned over XMAS: utilize multiple brokers so I can game then instead of them gaming me. I'll just route orders to the broker that has the lowest overall cost (considering spread, swap, etc.). Oanda can have all my positive swap orders until ...
- Saskabacha replied Dec 28, 2019
New strategy for me guys. I'm going to move half my account to IG and try to arbitrage swap rates between the two brokers. Not sure if this will be feasible considering the Oanda finance charges are so random and last minute, but I will try ... It ...
- Saskabacha replied Dec 27, 2019
So a few months ago I got a demo account from IG to evaluate. A few things I noticed (may have changed by now): - They seem to have implemented FIFO in an even more restrictive way than Oanda. When I took a position .01 long EURUSD then added a ...
- Saskabacha replied Dec 27, 2019
I have had no problem with Oanda until now. Execution and customer service has been excellent. But now the financing charges are eating up a much larger percentage of profits, month by month. And I see these so called "holiday swap rates" as you put ...
- Saskabacha replied Dec 27, 2019
I submitted a complaint to them along with printouts as evidence. I encourage you all to do the same. Unless they have some reasonable liquidity explanation related to NK or something (that I could actually believe) I will seriously consider moving. ...
- Saskabacha replied Dec 26, 2019
Ridge, I agree fully. Looks like Oanda decided to give themself a big XMAS present this year. Huge financing charge in my account on the 26th for a small short position in USDJPY. Makes absolutely no sense and can't possibly be due to liquidity. And ...
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