I have been a long time IB customer and I trade fairly actively. I have observed that IB changes its margin policy from time to time, and...
I was looking for Chuck LeBeau's forum archives. It seems Chuck LeBeau's forums don't exist anymore on web. Googling "Chuck LeBeau's forum"...
Does anyone has experience with Tradestation Strategy Network as a strategy developer? Are you happy with the money you are able to make? Please...
Holy grail of trading is to have uncorrelated strategies on multiple markets. It will be interesting to know how many strategies do professional...
I trade ES and have never really looked at SPY data in detail - but it seems that transaction costs while trading SPY will be much lower than...
There are multiple steps that are needed for anyone to move over from the side of losing money to making money. This will be a very short thread...
So, I know equity,bond, currency markets can move dramatically - ES can move 15-20 points in 5 minutes on the days of FOMC meetings. But what...
This thread is about what happened to traders who had accounts at PFG? Do they get their money back, if yes how much money do they get back, when...
It takes years of development work to finally develop a suite of uncorrelated strategies that will deliver alpha out of market year in and year...
Over the last 5-6 months, I lost more than 10k trading 1 ES contract, I was consistent - lost money every month. 10k equals 200 points, over 5...
Substantial reduction in ES margin from 2500 to 2188 and maintainance from 2000 to 1750. Not sure if the reduction is across the board or...
Welcome to the new journal. This is going to be a no nonsense journal, focused on making me independently wealthy. This journal will continue till...
I had a dream tonight in which I saw CL June contract was trading at 78. Finding it hard to believe, I rechecked my quotes and charts 3 times...
Lets collect some stats here - with the aim that it will help everyone benchmark their performance against the best and to see where they fall on...
I sometimes scan through my span folder to doublecheck that some genuine message is not going into it. Today I got this - these scammers always...
First, this is going to be a paper trading journal. I already have another journal in which I maintain my real account performance(FX+ES trading)....
I am thinking of dabbling in stocks, primarily trade forex. Was backtesting some ideas using OHLC data from finance.google.com. I have a basic...
Anyone knows why? This is unusual ??
happening right now. I liquidated myself.
anyone else experiencing this problem. I cant execute anything in spot fx....fx futures working ok??
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