Recent content by clarcombe

I am looking to buy a watch for a trader friend of mine but unsure what to go for. He's a bit of an east end lad who drinks A LOT. Hard to know what he would like. Upto about £500. Any ideas ?

Hello, I was wondering if anyone here trades Dax options and whether they can recommend any good brokers. I have tried IB (not for Dax I hasten to add) and found them very frustrating. You cannot place trades by phone. Am currently with ODL but they have no way of placing orders in advance...

I dont have the figures to hand as I did this work a while ago.I am guessing that the fatness came from the period of 2000-2002 as this is when the Dax fell off a cliff due to Nasdaq. I can't remember the FTSE having the same shape although it still had a slightly fat bottom. I was wondering...

I have been doing some analysis of non normal distribution of 1 month movements in the indices. Using a rolling 30 day window, I have compared closes and divided the results into percentage moves. I have done this for the Dax and FTSE over a 10 year period and the Dax shows a very fat tail on...

Hi, I am looking for a service which will send me a text message when a certain level of the FTSE is hit. I need to be able to program these levels in. I don't have any of the tools like Metatrader so I cannot get anything to generate Emails to SMS. Is there a way of doing this ? Thanks in...