I would also recommend vertical spreads for beginners. If you understand verticals you can branch out to IC, Butterflies, and so on. My personal favorite is selling selling strangles with with 4+ SD on high IV underlying. My current trade is going ...

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Open 2 accounts and go long and short on each of them. Reach that $500 in no time.

Windows already comes with remote desktop. I use to connect to my other house all the time, a little laggy because the other house has a slower broadband package but it dosent bother me too much.

Performace bond: The term is used to denote a collateral deposit intended to secure a Futures contract, commonly known as margin. You don't normally take delivery, in futures, unless you set up a proper agreement with the deliverer. Otherwise your ...

Pure price action is the best out of all. You'll just waste time in your journey with indicators, although they are a great complementry to price action.

MBTrading requires $2,000 for margin account deposit.

For IBFX swap search google for "interbankfx swap" it should be the first link. CMSFX, they have swap rates on their platform.

It depends on the pair your trading and the broker. For example, if you trade USD/JPY your going to get higher swap with Interbank than CMSFX. If you trade GBP/JPY, CMSFX has higher swap than Interbank. I also did a swap analysis on Oanda and I find ...

They are not rated very high on customer satisfaction. They got excellent platform though. They clear out their forex through Gain capital. I think the better setup would be, MBTrading/Interactive brokers with Ninja Trader platform. They are ...

Why don't you ask them.

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If you trade the mini-indexes you can open up 1 lot with about $400-$700, depending on your broker. With $8k you should be safe day trading 5 lots. Longer term, you need to adjust accordingly because over-night margins come into play.

For one thing, on the futures market the transaction cost is very low compared to forex. GBP/USD for example, I pay $2.20 per trade plus 1 tick spread. So thats $4.40 plus 2 ticks for a round turn trade. In dollar figures thats $24.40 for 1 lot or ...

No need to be condescending, you wont get far with good replies with that kind of attitude. 1. url Link 2 Learn to use google also, for example if you want to find lets say the opening time for the Korean exchange you would put in google something ...

image Double bottom on the JPY index, meaning bearish for USD/JPY pair. I've been long since 500 pips ago back in march but I do feel the tide is turning. Nothing definate yet but if I was your financial advisor I would tell you to hold.

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image I look at volume on the futures exchange with my forex platform. Pretty darn efficient.

No self-respecting professional trader uses their TWS client. Thats why there are tons of third party professional trading platforms. Ninja-trader and Sierra Charts are couple of good ones. IB has tight spreads but many people are turned off by the ...

InterbankFX automatically closes out your trades if your margin level goes down below 50%.