Oanda is best for spreads and is very reputable. Coach> Stay away from FXCM. There are better brokers out there.
Yes I am familiar with it. But the problem is wearing that many hats... I only have one head at the moment! I could try to consider a strategy of...
Yep momentum was the driving factor for that one. BTW for macro direction of the market I have been looking at potential fundamental models....
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Hey George_S. 1. There is no survivorship bias in the data. Many of the picks during the dot com bubble days, for example, doesn't exist...
All positions liquidated. For the month of May: Model: -6.98% S&P 500: -2.32% Since start of journal: Model: +5.39% S&P 500:...
A rather applicable response I would make is: Your calls don't make **** in whatever fantasy index you trade. Stop is at 2pts when wrong,...
Naturally you wouldn't be able to elimate all of your risk. Your best bet would be +vegal positions (if you don't want to close all position EOD).
Whats the rational for shorting EU/Asia indices? Typically everything moves in lockstep. Actually, another interesting position would be to go...
Carry long OTM puts/calls (+vega) may be one possibility.
Remember that FX is a symmetrical, two sided, paired market. Unlike stocks, FX has two essentially complimentary values (EURUSD/USDEUR). Thus,...
Fully agree with this sentiment. I actually expect the S&P to advance ~10% by December 2006. Earnings yeild adjusted for risk-free+inflation...
That wouldn't be shabby. A nice HF or some financial backer would be nice too :).
Yea I have to start working on it over the summer. Need to figure out what I will do this summer actually (the internship I am in now is a once a...
I should start spending some time on it. Just that I am a lazy bum when it comes to projects with far off deadlines like this.
And I was thinking I started early. 18 in 4 months haha. What was your westinghouse entry on? Currently completing my Intel STS entry to be...
Heh seriously. Just tell one of riskarb's synopsis of an exotic trade to some ladies and they will be all over you. Although I am willing to make...
I have a question B: How much of trading exotics profitably is related to superior modelling/pricing than say from a "game theory" point of...
I am definately glad that we are getting some responses flying. Stephen> Is there any good literature in this subject that may be recommended?...
Yep I can attest to that. I play some of the hit/miss binary options in FX provided by Oanda. Basically you can use the options to make...
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