The DAX has risen from 14,000 to 24,000 points in that time, so I would expect the margin to almost double just based on that fact alone. Then...
I am a day trader, I never hold overnight unless it is by mistake!
This was around new years eve 2009, the DAX only had an index value of 5,000 back then! So probably 1/5th the margin requirement you quote as...
I was once short 35 big DAX contracts (full size ones) and they cancelled after hours trading due to new years eve, I think it was the day before...
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Some nice HFT trading you got going on there :D The likes of SIG and Citadel will be worried, you going to be eating their lunch :D:D
Stock Indices are rigged to the upside, so it doesn't pay well to short rallies, pays better to buy the dips. Overbought is mostly a worthless...
Which IB app do you want to use?
That chart is overly optimistic/wrong because MSTY only returned 177% not 275%. So even further behind MSTR. I bet the people running MSTY made a...
Congrats, you timed your post perfectly to the exact high of todays failed V formation
It looks like Mstr was up 500% since Feb 2024. 177% doesn't sound so good.
"Average profit trade: 1.07 Average loss trade: -8.14" The old trading phrase 'Eating like a bird and shitting like an elephant' comes to mind.
Enjoy it while its lasts, because it never does. I give this bull market another 2 or 3 years at most. AI is overhyped. AGI is not coming in five...
During a crisis like 2008, CME might increase ES overnight margin to something like 10% or more, and IB might go even more conservative than CME...
If they still offer that, then OP wants to request his orders are routed directly to IB US servers and not European servers, otherwise it is...
I haven't used IB in years, but you used to be able to send a request to IB and change which primary server centre you wanted to use for your...
Where in my posts have I said Iran is a threat? I just pointed out they haven't been defeated yet.
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