Sorry :( For me the 1M account was the realistic example :( I understand there are many people out there who are dealing with 10k-50k but...
Anyone know of a tool or website where you can describe the option strategy, and it tells you what the conventional names for that strategy are?...
The purpose of this post was to illustrate trading on a small amount of margin (relative to account size) rather than maximizing margin...
Hello, I was digging around here (and the internet) for some good examples on margin calculations. All of the examples I see talk about being...
Automated Trading is the usual reason. As well as software that sets off alerts the moment an option crosses a boundary line. Not many people...
I recommend you do some paper trading or just running numbers on a piece of paper yourself :) The commissions you are looking at will eat up all...
How good is the volume? Some of these ETFs have so low volume you would be buying & selling at the MM's very wide spread. Or unable to...
Ideal leverage is probably based around Worst Historical Loss (WHL) for the position(s) hold hold. To be pessimistic, presume a 50% instantaneous...
Sure you can make a profit trading..... Question is how much is your principal and how much you want to make. Are you happy with 2%? Throw it...
Traders pay lots of money for big workstations and trading platforms in order to do this sort of trading.... chances of you successfully competing...
Trading *IS* easy. Making money through trading *IS* easy. Being disciplined for some is easy and for some is hard --- This is probably one of...
That does look pretty!
And that may be part of the problem -- everyone is used to using the same old same old that they stick with what looks like to have been designed...
Both. No reason one should sacrifice one for the other.
When it comes to trading platforms, there's lots of choices out there... but which one looks the slickest, the sexist, the: It's so pretty,...
*before* you start trading, set up all your rules: What days to trade/not trade (i.e., not on weeks with certain economic events) What time to...
I tried Money.net, and found it slow and quite lacking in content. It seemed everything money.net offered IB had (plus more) with regards to...
I'm looking for two types of front ends (or one that does it all) for IB: News Reader I'm subscribed to a lot of news in IB, but the way it...
I used the MetaStock version of Eikon. For the most part it was pretty good. Good: Slick, modern interface Well customizable Great news feeds...
Thank you both for the interesting replies. But as far as I can tell, none of them offer anything like 'Bloomberg briefs'. Bloomberg Briefs is a...
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