There are a number of factors that influence USD/CAD, but the three easiest ones to follow are crude oil, spread between U.S. and Canada 2-year bond yields and the S&P 500. Correlations change, especially depending on the time frame you are ...

Add to the below that Canadian economic data has been flagging and Citi's economic surprise index has turned below zero lower for the first time since Dec 2018 meaning that Canadian data is surprising to the downside of consensus forecast. From ...

It's been sometime since visiting FF! 5 years? Good to see some are keeping the $/CAD thread alive. After thumbing through a number of posts to see what you are all chatting about, here is some food for thought: 1. USD/CAD can be a difficult pair to ...

From what I understand it appears that the main reason you would like to open an account offshore is to bypass hedging restrictions? Personally, I've never concerned myself with hedging positions for if I feel the trend is set to go against me, I ...

You can probably just set up an LLC. One of the earlier posts said that you would still be personally liable, and this is true. However, to get around that what you do is make the (and I can't remember the correct name here) 'managing' partner that ...

Sorry I can't answer all of your questions, but in regards to leverage, it, for the most part, seems to be around 100:1. I was looking at their platform today (not MT4) and it shows the amount of margin required to open a position and it seems to ...

Ok. So took the Exempt Market Products exam offered by IFSE on Sat Sept 27th. 100 multiple choice questions and took me about 1h 25m. Got a 78% and all I did was do the 15 questions at the back of each unit on the Friday night before the exam. I did ...

If you are Canadian, here is a doc with the definitions of a permitted client.

Ok. I had some questions for LMAX, and they responded the next day (although I did email them well after London closed,so very quick response time as they answered once London was open the next morning). Here are the questions and answers. In the ...

Great entry on buying the breakout off the low on that ascending triangle and of trusting yourself and your plan! I'm just jealous I didn't get in there. I ended up fading the initial spike to 1.1243 (short 1.1234) after NFPs though I shouldn't have ...

I don't know if I'd want to short a clear uptrend. Maybe range trading is the best idea if you weren't able to get long on the drop to 1.1071. EUR/CAD buying prior night ahead of the ECB helped stem USD/CAD losses. Pop today back to the 61.8% ...

Thanks for the reply Messiah01 as I was wondering a bit about why they wouldn't allow traders to trade the news. Seemed a tad strange given their model. For people in Canada, who were hoping to open an FX account in the U.K. (or just Canada for ...

I'm not sure if anyone cares or is aware, but $20/25 per million is not really a great deal. To illustrate my point, I opened an account at London Capital years back with a 20k acct they gave me $16/mil no questions asked and I can't remember who ...

hahaha! Holy shit! This gets even funnier, kibes has his/her own blog where 'it' reposts its FF posts! Sweet Jesus, are kibes and hedge the same person? I only wish I had this much free time more often so as to enjoy such quality humour like this. I ...

Well said, scare! BTW, if you are looking for a laugh I was just reading a thread that Hedge started, and it is too fckn funny! I hate to say this, but that kid is a clowntard. lol Seriously, go check it out and if it's not funny and I wasted your ...

Obviously some people in this thread have no clue what technical analysis really is so for those people - you know who you are - here are some links that might help shed some light on these areas where your knowledge is sorely lacking: url ...

@kibescorp Learn to read and comprehend better, please. Firstly, Hedge was certainly implying that a lack of 'considering' the news, events, etc leads to failed trading & traders so therefore we can draw from that statement that he must be talking ...

I think Cdawg said all that needs to be said. Trading the news is a fool's game. Period. Unless your broker offers collocation, and/or your current broker has extremely low latency, and you are trading via algos, then maybe you can trade the news. ...

Their spreads suck as well as their comms. Unless they've really tightened things up over the last couple of years...

I asked them that and their reply was "...we have CAD demoniated accounts (not segregated) EUR, USD, GBP and CHF are seg though (Natwest)."