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I am glad that someone else agrees that it's too expensive to carry forex positions overnight at IB. For a moment I thought that it's only me...
A comment on your scenario: The stop-orders become market-orders when hit and get filled at the bid, so you make profits on the current spread...
IB should state the interest credited/debited per day and per currency in the *daily* statements, so we can all check what is really going on....
Strange that you haven't. I am not talking about a single month event. It had been happening every single month for half a year. I was trading...
I actually brought up the same issue sometime ago, but I got no satisfactory answer from IB. My calculations also say that the risk of such a...
There is also lots of slippage on IdealPro's stop-orders recently, even on periods of low volatility. I had stops executed with slippage of...
Everybody can see that...don't be a sucker...:D :D :D
Currently @ 1.1780 It smells like a quick run up to 1.20... Anyone else smells this? (also, EUR/JPY ---currently 139.89--- smells like...
The market is trying to squeeze him out of the position?
90pips on GBPJPY is something like 55pips on EURUSD (very good, but not the greatest achievement after all). And what's so surprising? GBPJPY...
I hope you are aware that your six figures aren't insured.
My 1-3dayswings system gave a sell on EUR/CAD yesterday at around 1.4100 which looks much better than the sell on EUR/USD. A
Despite the extra liquidity, the CHF/JPY spread widen from 2 to 3-4pips since late Friday....
Add a rule to fill your order with a probability, let's say, 20%. That will do for backtest purposes.
Note that Philishave, electric toothbrush, vitamins, and tabacco (and filters), are accessible on a short notice... Equity-curve since...
My account works according to what is described here: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/marginRequirements/currency.php What I...
According to the yen charts of the last few months, this doesn't seem to be true anymore. Any chance of increasing the leverage to 50:1 soon?...
Why is the leverage only 33:1 for JPY at IB? (so higher margin is required) I don't see any higher risk than other currencies. Anyone knows...
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