I've been with fcs for many years and similarly with lcap until their recent demise. Currently in the process of opening up with cfh but might have a look at fixi. Those spreads I see, this is on their platform? Any idea what their currenx/hotspot ...

how safe you reckon fixi is compared to say gft or fcstone

i was looking at them and velocity. I found it strange they wouldn't set up a demo login for cnx/hpsot where I could view live prices and your comment pretty much explains it. How would you rate velocity in comparison?

you need to look at it in context of all the other currencies. While the $ might be rallying aagainst the euro, it's not against the swissie. AT the moment, everyone is worried about eruope and the potential collapse. the eropean govt's have ...

the move later in the day was nothing to do with nfp but the rumour of ecb buying italian bonds

bloomberg

17:41:57.668 bn - swiss government meets in extraordinary meeting over franc 17:42:38.440 bn - swiss government confirms current policy on franc 17:43:07.695 bn - swiss government says franc massively overvalued

it's pure risk on/off play at the moment. Good data, stocks will rally, bonds fall, safe haven ccys (usd/chf/jpy) fall.

the problem with almost all the 'ecns' these days is that they all have a last look facility so the banks can simply decide not to fill your order even if it's been matched to a valid price. cnx has had this in place for a long time. lava have been ...

mkt was effectively 60:40 against them using up the remaining 25bn for qe. They stayed with 125 to be reviewed in august showing they are now in more o a wait and see mode like ecb rather than proactively trying to boost the economy via more qe

your phrase short term price movements indicates that time is the governing factor and not the change in price. the snb quite obv want to keep eurchf from dropping below a certain level for a considerable amount of time (i.e. until the recession, at ...

once again,the snb has intervened to suppress the value of the franc. Your examples of sure things has so far been in hindsight up till now yet you dismissed my suggestion that snb stating ccy intervention as nothing major (fundamentally i assume). ...

i dont understand why the mkt wants to test snb's resolve. they can have an unlimited amount of francs to sell

as i said before ... dont want to get into some heated argument and have already said that there are plenty of ways to make money in this market. All I'm trying to get at is that with these type of longer term trades you are talking about compared ...

additional charts from prev post

this has got to be the most ignorant statement I have ever seen from someone of your supposed stature and makes you come across as incredibly arrogant. I dont want to start a pissing contest but it's obvious that you have no idea how to trade on a ...

To say that payrolls is 'just another data point' is just says to me that you're an economist playing trader. If you want to make money especially in these volatile markets, you dont have to be right fundamentally, you need to be able to accurately ...

i agree with you completely, but i doubt anyone here would be trying their hand at market making, especially in this mkt when unscheduled comments can cause huge intraday moves.

The a significant amount of HFT amongst the banks in the equity space is traditionally market making so I wouldn't be so convinced they're at that much of a disadvantage. It's sad to see how much HFT have taken over trading equities in this low ...

I disagree with this statement but it can be we are talking about different time levels. Last month's payrolls was so significantly stronger than expected that it completely changed mkt perceptions of the recovery and how they view different ...