Last TRADED price cannot change without volume. A trade has to be executed for a new print. But "quoted price", the bid and ask, can move just by...
Stuff like that, especially with "finding best values", will work sometimes, then other times it will just lose money.
Were the shares you traded maybe trading below 1.00 USD per share ?
I got your PM. Your broker is a fine and reliable company, they should be able to clear this problem for you. If the rebates you talk about are a...
Which broker ?
Nice, it is always cool to hear these stories from former times, thanks for the insight. May I ask which country you are from in Europe ?
Lol, that was long ago before I started trading. Here in Europe trading really started with the dotcom rise and crash around 2000. Nowaydays you...
Thats exactly how it is. Never before traders had so much opportunity for testing, preparation, SIM trading... getting into it without too much...
By trading with appropriate size as a beginner, which is smaller than what you think right now should be appropriate. Trade small enough that...
Yes, this has to be 100% true. Even Interactive Brokes is offering CFDs to their customers, and everybody knows that they are the worst. Who are...
Nice post, it is not all black and white like many think. One nice advantage of CFDs (not with all brokers, but many) is that your max loss is...
There are good CFDs for equity index products that offer advantages compared to trading ETFs or futures. But for (US) stock trading I would...
Adapting to the liquidity in the market. Not showing all your cards. And more. As an extreme example, why does a big fund not go all in when they...
I am a very shortterm scalper in futures, but I do pretty much the same, most of the time. Instead of just placing a 20 NQ order, I go in with a...
ROFL ! :D
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/swap.asp A classic example for a swap is an interest rate swap. For example, I have a bond portfolio with...
If you still want to avoid those doubled margins for account balances over 100k, you could for example open a second account with another broker...
If you trade 100 NQs, you are trading a value of about 30 Million USD (15,000 x 20 x 100). Thats a big amount of capital you are pushing around,...
If you get fear in a trade then you trade too much size, or you trade too infrequent or you are not consistent enough. Trade size and frequency...
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