this guy had the right idea... and balls of steel, bot 1 billion worth of US equities futures as the market was panicking on election night url

shorting gold.. however if I'm wrong i'm effed, if Trump wins he'll probably tear down the white house and rebuild it with solid gold bricks...

not sure I see the event you are referring to on my charts but most likely when a market gaps during trading hours it is because of liquidity, most specifically the lack of liquidity. Around news there is less liquidity providers, wider spreads and ...

I'm assuming your return on investment far exceeds your cost of debt, if you are really confident that you can keep up those kinds of return why just not pay the bare minimum (or skip a payment altogether) on your debt and keep growing your account? ...

For that I think it is the same wherever you go in the western world. I never understood how or why regulators can fine those companies for many millions of dollars but somehow no one goes to prison, somehow no one is criminally responsible, insane. ...

was not aware that MF global clients got all their money back, last I heard Corzine was saying he did not know where the money went LOL. thank you for pointing that out. However my point still stand, coherent regulation is better than crappy ...

Regulation can provide protection to retail clients but it depends how its done. For example segregated account might not be as secure as one thinks. Best example for that is MF Global that went bankrupt a few years ago. Clients from MF Global ...

I find it easier to calculate in %. so for the premium/discount on the future you do: future price/spot price - 1. This will give you % you "earn/lose" holding the future for the number of days left to expiration assuming spot price remains ...

you got the idea but just to go one step further, in reality it won't be 26 pips exactly because of the swap on the spot side. In theory, in a arbitrage free context, AUD's rate is higher then USD so you should get a positive swap on your spot ...

go to url and check the column with the date and the one named Prior settle. You will notice that the further away the expiry of your future contract is the more the difference of the future with the spot price becomes significant. Inversely the ...

More importantly I'm not sure why one would want to hedge a spot position, you either want to be exposed or you don't and if you don't just close the position and reenter whenever you wish too. You will not have to pay swap, extra commission in the ...

When you buy one lot of EUR/AUD in spot FX @, for example, 1,5000, you sell 150,000 AUD to buy 100,000 EUR. However when you buy one future contract of EUR you buy $100,000 EUR and when you sell 1 contract of AUD you sell $100,000 AUD. Also those ...

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Interactive Brokers, Questrade and Oanda I know for sure, I think Dukascopy and Fxcm also.

i'm not talking about retail here.. If I'm a trader at Barclays and ABC hedge fund comes to me and say I want to put a market order of 100 billions to buy USD because he knows something I don't and the NFP report is coming out in 1 minute I will ...

the raise in volume is a reflection of people acting on the spot, taking price, that is more indicative of market orders, people are covering or are afraid of missing out or whatever but this is just on side of the equation. The fact remains that ...

The market disappears around highly anticipated news, no dealers will take the risk to give tight quotes, so small market order moves the markets much more than in usual trading conditions, pretty much all there is to it

if you do 3-8% a month as a pro working with a lot of asset under management , you will be a billionaire pretty soon... A lot of people take numbers from the industry and think they can apply it to the individual retail trader which is not the case. ...

you can hedge against the appreciation in USD with options or futures but the cost of hedging will negate the profit made on interest... appart from that, my feeble mind cannot conceive another way to eliminate directional risk in your position. ...

I have a 9 to 5 jobs and I daytrade. I do not do it while working as my job requires too much focus but rather in the evening, I'm in the NY time zone so after dinner I trade the tokyo market from 7-8pm to 11-midnight. I am sleeping while europe is ...