Recent content by cascot

I Emailed SG yesterday enquiring about the recent price movements of SV03 relative to Brent Crude itself. Their explanation was the decrease in Implied Volatility. I agree this would be a contributing factor, but I still fail to see how a 6% rise in the price of an underlying commodity over a...

I have had some very puzzling experiences in respect of Covered Warrant pricing with SG. I've seen it in the past a few times, but due to lack of alternatives I have recently bought SG Covered Warrants again for Brent Crude Dec09. When I bought into the SV03 Call warrants around 9:40am on 15th...

Thanks for your reply Grant. I understand about the price of the actual warrant, however they also include a quote of the underlying market, in my case the Dow Jones, which as I said opened at a price higher than the futures close and changed a few times when to my knowledge no Dow futures...

On the Societe Generale warrants site they base the price of the Covered Warrants they offer on the Dow Jones on the current DJIA futures price. I had believed that the only futures available on the DJIA were those traded on CBOT (Dow Mini's, etc). Well today CBOT is closed for Thanksgiving yet...

Doctor Leo, I agree with you about serious trading, at least in terms of leverage range, however why would it be advantageous form a brokers perspective for it's clients to lose money let alone "..the sooner, the better"? I agree the use of such leverage levels will certainly aid a trader on...

Jack o'clubs, Thanks for your reply. I don't yet have a broker as I'm only researching the market at this stage, but of the brokers I have considered as possibilities I found the following on fxcm.com "At 5:00 PM New York Time, funds are subtracted or added to accounts with open positions...

Most, if not all, of the broker accounts aimed at the retail market offer leverage, normally in the 100:1 to 400:1 range. If you open a $400k position (400:1 leverage) and leave it open for seven days, how is the $399k required to pay for the contracts being funded, given that the spread for...

UM_manager, Perfect! Thank you so much. It seems Alpari is a great resource for where I currently am in terms of research, etc. For anyone else in a similar position, they have extensive historical data and offer a demo account that unlike all the others I have thus far read about does not...

For some time now I've been interested in trading and lately I've been trying to do some ground work to help me decide which direction I might take, with Forex being one possible path. In an ideal world I'd like to aquire a significant chunk of historical intraday data (an absolute minimum of 1...

Thanks JumpOff, That is great. I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction. It is extremely close, though I think it is intended solely for use while connected to their server which provides the data feeds, etc, rather than being a standalone product you can hook up to your own...

Is anyone aware of any software on the market which can act just like a normal charing program (i.e. chart price movements, plot exponential moving averages, allow trend lines to be drawn, etc), but produce these charts tick by tick from a HISTORICAL intraday data file (OHLCV type data), rather...

I've just learned that the FTSE-100 index is only calculated and updated once every 15 seconds, so clearly every 10 seconds is effectively real-time. I am so used to the DJIA, and just assumed the FTSE would be the same (namely updated tick by tick, every second or less).

Having just signed up with eSignal I was shocked to learn (a little on the late side!) that their real-time feed option for the FTSE-100 only gets refreshed once every 10 seconds!! I can barely believe this. The only real-time option they offer is FTSE-100 futures through the LIFFE feed (which...

I'm looking for a reasonably cheap source for reliable, real-time data that includes the following: - FTSE-100 Index - FTSE-100 Index Futures (so LIFFE Levle I or II to get both of these I guess) - Dow Jones Industrial Average - CBOT Mini Dow Futures I was going to use Interactive Brokers...

Can anyone tell me if the LIFFE Level I data feed includes the FTSE-100 Index? I want the FTSE Futures, but I also want a realtime feed of the underlying FTSE-100 index. When I asked what I needed at Interactive Brokers they named only the LIFFE Level I feed, which I hadn't expected to include...