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Likewise, trading currency futures have these benefits:
-Regulated Futures Exchange
-Regulated Futures Clearing
-Standardized contracts
-Registered FCM, IB with the National Futures Association
-Electronic Trading
-Point and click trading
-Depth of Market
-Use of leading electronic futures trading software
-Set Commission Rate
-No Principal/Agent conflict when trading
-Market makers maintaining two sided markets
-Near 24 hour trading
Regards,
John J. Lothian
-----Original Message-----
From: fxtrader [mailto:fxtrader@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 11:46 AM
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Forex vs CME currency futures (was Re: Feeding Tradestation
with Olsen Data)
FOREX offers:
-24 hr markets, Sun 5pm thru Fri 5pm
-Liquidity: 1.4 Trillion traded daily thru interbank network
-Leverage: 100:1
-No commissions
-Tight Spreads
Just to name a few reasons why.
-----Original Message-----
From: MT [mailto:mtzianos@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 12:10 PM
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Forex vs CME currency futures (was Re: Feeding Tradestation with
Olsen Data)
Hi List,
My perception was that trading currency futures at an exchange is a better
alternative to trading at the unregulated forex dealers.
Why would anyone (trading "normal" size) want to trade forex ?
Regards, MT
indextrader wrote:
>
> What is the basic monthly charge for your real-time data and what
> advantages do you consider to have over eSignal and others if any?
>
> >
> > We now have a first proposal for feeding Tradestation with data from
> > Olsen Data using:
> >
> > Metaserver for DDE
> > http://tssupport.com/products/ms/demo/
> > (which costs $99)
> > A demo version supporting two symbols can apparently be downloaded
> > for free.
> >
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