Recent content by pippero

I normally use onestepremoved.com or rentacoder.com

i have done it, but it's a high end statistiscal analysius software i am using. try using yahoo quotes, they have realtime data for all crosses

to insulate from exchange rate moves, put a small part of you bankroll at a forex broker and hedge your usd exposure.. you could do this at IB because they have forex trading as well -- but i'd still pick mirus futures, mostly because IB offers no intraday margin..

the big players do it infact -- but they have computers colocated at the exchange.

buying eurusd and shorting gbpusd is nothing less (or more) than trading eurgbp outright, if done in the approriate ratio. spreading futures months is some sort of an interest rate play you can try arbitrageing spot and futures, but unless you're colocated at the CME you will rarely be filled...

you have already at least one competitor in the uk (whose name escapes me, small company) and one in the US (oanda, not so small.)

if you use a program called maxivista (which is under 30 euros) you can use old portables as external monitors, even if they have two screens. if you have two of them you can have up to 5 screens on a single pc, it works reasonably fine and if you have some old laptops (or buy them cheap) its...

1) because they ask for it. 2) I work for market makers as well. They call it algo trading and it is based on a totally different model. Anyway, I was just implying that you can make better money using discretion. You can still make money with trading systems. here's a screenshot from one of...

I develop EAs and tradign systems for clients on request -- one thing I can tell you is that most everybody is looking for trend following systems, which have a barely acceptable performance over the long term. Sometime they hit a home run but the rest of the time they bleed money...

Indeed. i'll believe a word you say when i see a statement ;)

ok so we have someone with 3 and 1 posts recommending a system for sale, and someone called "£10kLoser" recommending it as well... I think I'll keep trading my setup, thank you very much.

Oanda does this now.

well, because 20 pips of GBPJPY are something else entirely compared to 20 pips of, say, NZDUSD? percentages are a better way of comparing returns.

it can be custom written if you find a good enough coder

ATC brokers do it if you're a broker, not for retail clients..