Execution Risk - The inability to execute your trades. As long as the lines to the USA aren't fixed yet, we might be facing an execution risk on our trades. True, not trading is costing us in terms of opportunity costs (and maybe some losses because we can't hedge), but that's the price one has to pay for a global trading environment. I was panicky two nights ago as my trade on the Aussie/US forex pair did not go through (instead, Firefox conveniently hung up and the Internet line was too slow - and Firefox is the BEST, mind you). Luckily it was a practice account.
Hope that the earthquake in Taiwan is a one-off thing (you wouldn't think so if you're watching the National Geographic channel, though). Telekom says 50% of the lines are restored, with 80% to be restored by Jan. 12 and 100% restoration by Jan. 20th, 2007 (read it here). I'll drink to that! In the meantime, stay tuned for the launch of onlinetrading188.net! (yawn, I know it's been delayed, but is really due to "technical" problems, which of course, inevitably can be traced back to humans!)
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