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  • #21,861
  • Oct 4, 2011 9:13pm Oct 4, 2011 9:13pm
well mine are london based and fsa regulated, not that that means much.. but these cyprus, bahamas based types, jeeze i would not touch them with a 10 foot barge pole..
  • #21,862
  • Oct 4, 2011 9:13pm Oct 4, 2011 9:13pm
Quoting FibbinArchie
well i've been full time with them for two years, and from what i recall the servers have gone down just once in that time, i was straight on the phone to them and it was genuine, it wasn't during nfp or other high volatility scenario, and the spreads are usually good during nfp, 2 pips on e/u...
Fairly decent sums, Arch?

They are true and true...a Market Maker. If you're fucking with their market...they have one choice... Fak with you.

I think gator uses them, too. They probably just piggy-back his trades and make money off of him. If your style doesn't suite their books, and you're taking too much...

Railroaded...awful quick.
  • #21,863
  • Oct 4, 2011 9:14pm Oct 4, 2011 9:14pm
Quoting OldQuant
No, I just wasn't aware of that bias. If I'm not trading in and out, I just stay as close as possible because of carry. Right now, on the bid, X = 1260, Z = 1310, 5 on each. During the pit hours, though, probably a Z bias. I just put it on the page with X, and am going to watch it during the trading day.
nice brother thank you...

im kind of new to the futures so thats why i was asking
  • #21,864
  • Oct 4, 2011 9:14pm Oct 4, 2011 9:14pm
Quoting Mr Hatch
it was a more or less constant .9 when I started trading last year.
avg 1.5 during normal liquidity, thought that was about standard, .9? who with?
  • #21,865
  • Oct 4, 2011 9:16pm Oct 4, 2011 9:16pm
Quoting kenfen69
Fairly decent sums, Arch?

They are true and true...a Market Maker. If you're fucking with their market...they have one choice... Fak with you.

I think gator uses them, too. They probably just piggy-back his trades and make money off of him. If your style doesn't suite their books, and you're taking too much...

Railroaded...awful quick.
nah i'm still small fry, $8 a pip is my standard lot size, still learning really..
  • #21,866
  • Oct 4, 2011 9:18pm Oct 4, 2011 9:18pm
Quoting FibbinArchie
well mine are london based and fsa regulated, not that that means much.. but these cyprus, bahamas based types, jeeze i would not touch them with a 10 foot barge pole..
Lost 5g's plus to JadeFX.

Bastards!
  • #21,867
  • Oct 4, 2011 9:18pm Oct 4, 2011 9:18pm
Quoting kenfen69
Lost 5g's plus to JadeFX.

Bastards!
based where?
  • #21,868
  • Oct 4, 2011 9:19pm Oct 4, 2011 9:19pm
Well, Flip's comfortably long here, showing no sign of doing anything else atm.

I have to leave to meet someone at the airport, which of course means (hey, it's Austin, after all) going to some bar where we should rightfully be half our age.

Back probably not until tomorrow evening. Here, that is, I don't mean from the bar.
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  • #21,869
  • Oct 4, 2011 9:19pm Oct 4, 2011 9:19pm
Quoting kenfen69
Bastard!


can i go to bed now?
  • #21,870
  • Oct 4, 2011 9:21pm Oct 4, 2011 9:21pm
Quoting FibbinArchie
avg 1.5 during normal liquidity, thought that was about standard, .9? who with?
.9 was their standard spread for e/u.
what is it right now?
  • #21,871
  • Oct 4, 2011 9:22pm Oct 4, 2011 9:22pm
Quoting pkimnyc


can i go to bed now?
you're dismissed.
  • #21,872
  • Oct 4, 2011 9:23pm Oct 4, 2011 9:23pm
Quoting Mr Hatch
.9 was their standard spread for e/u.
what is it right now?
1.2
  • #21,873
  • Oct 4, 2011 9:23pm Oct 4, 2011 9:23pm
Quoting Mr Hatch
you're dismissed.
thank you.
  • #21,874
  • Oct 4, 2011 9:23pm Oct 4, 2011 9:23pm
Quoting FibbinArchie
nah i'm still small fry, $8 a pip is my standard lot size, still learning really..
They hit me for less.

$8/pip still makes me sweat some days...depending on what I'm up to. Fak...

$1/pip pisses me off IF I fakked it up! If a broker is shtumping a foot in there...I look for the shotgun I've never owned.
  • #21,875
  • Oct 4, 2011 9:24pm Oct 4, 2011 9:24pm
Quoting Mr Hatch
.9 was their standard spread for e/u.
what is it right now?
who ig? 2.0, although narrowing to 1.0 intermittently..
  • #21,876
  • Edited 9:43pm Oct 4, 2011 9:28pm | Edited 9:43pm
Quoting kenfen69
They hit me for less.

$8/pip still makes me sweat some days...depending on what I'm up to. Fak...

$1/pip pisses me off IF I fakked it up! If a broker is shtumping a foot in there...I look for the shotgun I've never owned.
well i scale between, 4 and 8 depending on the set up, level of focus, etc. and my strategy allows 1 additional average to be open at any one time per trade, but that's really just for emergency digging myself out of the shite type scenarios...
  • #21,877
  • Oct 4, 2011 9:29pm Oct 4, 2011 9:29pm
Quoting FibbinArchie
based where?
Were in the US...then moved when paperwork got thick. Central America, I think? Maybe Belize? There one day...gone the next.

Still receive emails from the SEC asking for all my details to help "prosecute" and get my money back. Money's gone bitchez...move on.

The Collective FX makes me nervous, too. Withdrew the lot...that was my last USD denominated account. Once I saw Jade's tits go up...I was out. Too many "US"... "brokers" on the run from their own government.
  • #21,878
  • Oct 4, 2011 9:29pm Oct 4, 2011 9:29pm
Quoting FibbinArchie
who ig? 2.0, although narrowing to 1.0 intermittently..
no, I'm talking about oanda. I fired it up and it's at 1.5 now.

I never really investigated into the questions, whether brokers start pissing off successful people in general or not... shouldn't be...
  • #21,879
  • Oct 4, 2011 9:31pm Oct 4, 2011 9:31pm
Quoting OldQuant
Well, Flip's comfortably long here, showing no sign of doing anything else atm.

I have to leave to meet someone at the airport, which of course means (hey, it's Austin, after all) going to some bar where we should rightfully be half our age.

Back probably not until tomorrow evening. Here, that is, I don't mean from the bar.
Good to see you, old chap!

Have fun.
  • #21,880
  • Oct 4, 2011 9:38pm Oct 4, 2011 9:38pm
Quoting Mr Hatch
no, I'm talking about oanda. I fired it up and it's at 1.5 now.

I never really investigated into the questions, whether brokers start pissing off successful people in general or not... shouldn't be...
i think the general rule of thumb with a lot of them is that they'll take the counter on their own books with newer traders, working on the principle that 99.99% or whatever the figure is lose consistently...

would have thought that providing a good service would be a good selling point for them, but hey ho...

anyway, p&l seems to be going in the right direction for now (touch wood), so can't complain really..
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