Some things are really starting to make sense to me now. Thank you all for great posts.

Found it. "Buying US treasuries sends treasury prices higher and yields lower, dropping the interest rate used to set all manner of consumer and business lending, from mortgages and credit cards to working capital loans. The expectation is that ...

Thank for the links, both were very helpful. I've spent some time on my one as well, and here's what I've got: I chose gpb/jpy since it's one of the most volatile currency pairs. If the rate moves 150 pips (doesn’t matter up or down) during the day ...

Thanks for replies. You are right; I should try figuring this out by myself. I guess I should start with Excel, historical data and adding the formulas... Anyway, I'll post what I find out here so someone can verify. Thanks again.

LumoX, which pairs you have used in cross hedging. I just spent some time looking and comparing gbp/jpy and eur/jpy charts. By the way, these two have almost perfect correlation (coefficient is well over 0.9). So, they are moving in the same ...

@MikeC: There are brokers out there that will give you swap free account, no doubt about that. There is just one little problem, as soon as you open your gbp/jpy long position and start collecting $24/day on a standard lot, they will ask you what ...

These are the results of my research through 2006: 1. Collecting interest on one account and avoiding to pay on another is not possible. Reason: There is no broker out there that would let you do this. I spoke with 5 different interest free account ...

That's what I'm doing right now. I have opened demo at Saxo Bank. Than I opened one long euro fx futures contract (125.000) and shorted the same amount eur/usd at the spot market. For holding short position in the spot market I receive around $6 ...

I wonder how we can hedge position with futures... I just looked at the SaxoTrader and GBP/JPY MAR futures are priced at around 227.5 while the forex rate is around 232.0. So how would you hedge when there is such a differesnce? Probably the up/down ...

Yes, there are a lot of traders out there making their own decisions. And yes it is similar to predicting a human behavior. But I did not see sooo important news coming out today on FF, so I didn't pay much attention. I just opened my charts and ...

What actualy caused this move?

Or you could simply go to www.betonmarkets.com Click on "Double Up" on the left, and go straight down, to the bottom of the page. Enter your cell phone number, and the strike price. And there you go. By the way it's totally free of charge.

Thanks for the info. I kind of knew that it is imposible for a price to drop 70 pips is a second. Could you just tell me how much time (seconds) have passed for this info? Does / represents 1 sec?

Well, you obviously did a great job. I was thinking about the method I should use when trading news. Even I know that trading news can be dangerous business, I still like doing it on demo. You used a very simple method, set 2 orders and wait to see ...

Could someone who traded the NFP today tell me how the price acctualy moved, was it like 60 pips down in 1 sec, or it was some other way? I'm talking about eur/usd.

I have been blown away!!! Thanks god it was just a demo. It was calm than 10 pips spiked up (eur/usd). Naturally I entered long. For 5 seconds nothing happened.......... than BAAAAMMMMM..... -75 pips. DAMN IT!! I'm practicing on Oanda, could you ...