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Thanks mate - up and down but still here :)

Good to see you're a landlubber for a while - are you at home for Christmas this year?

Looking forward to 2008 - hoping it has fewer surprises than 2007!!

Yup, home for Xmas, first time for quite a few years, not sure I wouldn't prefer to be in Rio though :)

Great to see all the discussions and comments on here today.

Have got to get myself a real forex account because even with my small amounts cmc take what seems like an age to execute. Anyone got any recommendations? I've tried and fxcm demo account and they kept ringing me up at the beginning of the year but I wasn't ready then. Spread on cable appears to be 4 pips whereas cmc and most s/b co's is 3.

Oh and regarding trades, just had a quick long from EUR JPY 163.19 to 163.25 whilst I was busy with paperwork.

Seymour I use GFT good charting package, trade off the chart, up to now no re quotes easy to use.
www.gftforex.com

Divetime, that sounds good, being able to trade off the chart is a real plus, doens't seem to be possible with FXCM.

B*gger, just missed one on EUR JPY :-(

SC...is the difference in the spread between 3pips to 4 pips a factor in your trading... ?

Speed of execution...no requotes....ability or manipulate stops and limits...sound more importnat to me...

I use fxcm and happy to pay away 4 pips on a trade

SC - I wouldn't necessarily reccomend them but I use IGIndex - cable spread is 3, EUR/USD is 2 - not particularly good but depends on what kind of stake you're using in terms of risk that implies.

The spread does widen when there are mega-moves in the market but it usually doesn't take long before they bring them back to the standard - I suspect it's a way of protecting themselves (rather than the punter).

I've tried capital spreads but ended up coming back to IGI - no real problems and only issue is that I blame them when I get it wrong - couldn't possibly be my fault - could it?

EDIT - Oh, and their charting package is excellent in my view. I used to use nadia or whatever it is but now just load the IG ones which have lot's of indicator options - well, enough for me anyway.

Foale, the spread isn't really a problem, just think if some are providing 3 pips and some 4, but there's no difference in quality of execution / platform, then I'd rather have a 3 pip spread :-) The quality and ease with which you can manipulate your positions is very important - cmc is a bind in that regard.

Another problem with cmc is if I'm trading the far east on a late evening the platform is not always available.

SC, Worldspreads do 1 pip on EURUSD and USJPY and 2 on Cable. I think it does vary with the time of day though.
The execution times I have experienced are very quick. Never traded FX with them but when you place a 25/pt on the FTSE execution is almost immediate (and unlike CMC NO REQUOTES!!!!!!!)

Wasn't Nadia the trannie in Big Brother? Strange that it should be meggers who mentioned her.

:o)

Ya bitch

Never traded forex with CMC ... and never will...


World spread have very tight spreads...but Ruth and others had problems with them when there were fast markets..although I dont think that was with Forex

My current thinking is that it's about time I didn't bother with the sb co's and got a real Fx broker.

The problem with spreadbetters in fast markets is that they need to hedge their exposure quickly when everybody tries to trade the same way with them. More likely than not, they will try to hedge on the CME futures market which is order driven.

If anybody has looked at the L2 order book on the CME they will see tight spreads of a pip or so, but ahead of major news there are often no "back up" orders for 30 or 40 pips either side of touch and the orders on bid and offer are often for only a handful of contracts. Consequently as the news is released, the bid or offer is taken and a spread opens up to 30 or 40 pips because there was nothing behind touch.

The CMC's of this world are then unable to hedge their positions quickly enough which is why their platform closes temporarily and they go onto phone dealing only.

It's a hard fact of life and it ain't gonna change I'm afraid.

That was a stroke of luck - I put in an order to open long at 390 earlier on - based on the bottom of today's range. Just been having some lunch (having forgotten I'd placed it to be honest) and returned to find it had triggered, dropped and then shot up.

Just closed it for 50 as today's bonus offer :)))))

EDIT - bugger - should have left it to run - but then, that would have been greedy, wouldn't it

PS - I've definitely, definitely finished for the day now - no more surprise opens to trigger and fortunately I have go out otherwise I'd probably get tempted - or bored - either way I'd probably give some of it back 'cos that's another thing I do - less now than in the past but still do it despite my new improved disciplinary tendencies - encouraged by Miss Hiplash, the enforcer :)

closed a cable long 2.0560

Buggeration - doncha just hate it when that happens - loads more pips in the tank and I missed 'em - I've got my hat and coat and I'm leaving before I try and short it like a plonker.

I am generally bullish cable.

The level for my exit was the declining line on my 4 hour chart...
its the 2.0600 of 2 days ago...but declined a bit since then...

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