I will not mention any names which would be besides the point. For all intents and purposes, I did choose a known name in the retail FX space at...
If I were to play FX on news, I'd go for CME contracts anyday over any OTC FX firm. Reason is simple and compelling: there is no conflict of...
What about FX contracts on the CME? They come in all sorts of notional sizes. Any FCM should offer access to them. Centralised trading venue, no...
What rule of entry to you have? Gut feel/intuition? Have you considered limit orders? Once filled you set your stop and you're pretty much done.
I think Z is a technical month: year-end liquidity management. One of those tail risks, so being long Dec would be taking the other side.
As it has been said before, keep leverage low. Volatility should determine the trade size. To risk 1% on a say 10k account is $100. That can be 10...
I think the choice of tenor is key. Short end of the curve: HFT, algos trading news/events impossible to beat with retail technology/set-up....
Tax reasons, agreed. I also read paragraph 4.6 of their risk disclosure document and no thanks. Not for me, I want an exchange clearing house on...
That's interesting! Based on what I have seen first hand in the softs trade, merchant houses are by definition basis/spread players. This is the...
Hi Ilan, if I may ask, and this is by no means targeted at your firm, but the retail brokerage biz in general, is the say average holding period...
I switched from outright to spreads only. Some might say, you can watch paint dry, but they trend. Similar risk profile to slow moving stocks or...
There was MF Global, spin off from Man, the commodities house. Well, we know how this went ... ADM is a commodities processing business and in...
Why is everyone getting so upset about this daytrade paper? If you've been day trading for years and are profitable, you can keep stumm and rest...
Tickmill is the trading name of Tickmill Ltd Seychelles, regulated as a Securities Dealer by the Financial Services Authority of Seychelles with...
In trading you're in the risk management business. So, keep the trade size small, say 1% of total equity. This ensured you can't blow up quickly...
only because these guys have a London telephone number, this is at the bottom of their web site: The forexoptimum.com website is owned and...
Start trading real money when you know whether and where you have an edge. Don't follow tips or jump from market to market and idea to idea. Do...
"Which Trading System Or Strategy Is The Most Profitable?" -- in FX you mean? Maybe not to trade FX at all. What is profitable is for you to find out.
spreads are quite affordable margin-wise and low risk.
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