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  • #21
  • Sep 8, 2006 1:42pm Sep 8, 2006 1:42pm
Quoting nikosgr
Wow... Thanks a lot Peter for the money management courses

Although my frustration still remains on how we can find the margin used.

As you can see here i did a purchase of 0.50 lots of gbpchf

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/8906/gbpig2.png

To find the margin i used i did bgpusp price(1.8657) x lots (0.50) x lots size (10.000) / 100 (the minimum leverage this demo account offers) which equals 93.285. As you can see this ammount has nothing to do with the real ammount used as margin...

And as i checked the minimum ammount of lots (volume) allowed by this broker is 0.10.....

So what i am doing wrong or what i have understood wrong....??

Thanks
Hi Nikosgr,

Perhaps this will help. Look at posts 16 & 17 in the Money Management sticky of this, the Beginners Forum.

May I also recommend you read the entire money management thread? My posts there have been very helpful to others, and perhaps they will be of use to you as well.

If you have any questions after reading the MM sticky, please feel free to PM me.

Dial
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  • #22
  • Sep 8, 2006 3:41pm Sep 8, 2006 3:41pm
Quoting diallist
Hi Nikosgr,

Perhaps this will help. Look at posts 16 & 17 in the Money Management sticky of this, the Beginners Forum.

May I also recommend you read the entire money management thread? My posts there have been very helpful to others, and perhaps they will be of use to you as well.

If you have any questions after reading the MM sticky, please feel free to PM me.

Dial
Thanks Dial
I suspect you spotted I'd reached my level of incompetence. The fact that you didn't correct any of my ramblings gives me hope that at last I've got it.
If I'm wrong in any areas please add corrections highlighting the errors, as I would hate to mislead anyone else picking up bits of this thread.
Peter
  • #23
  • Last Post: Sep 20, 2006 5:55pm Sep 20, 2006 5:55pm
To no one in particular:

I am currently trading with a 20:1 margin on a $5K live account. This limits my exposure (and subsequently my risk) but should it be higher? I still make $10 per pip on a full lot, but at my current 20:1, I can only open a position about 1/2 that size.

Am I hurting myself here? Should I increase my margin so that I'm not always running up against my available margin limit after only a few open positions?

I realize that it's my decision, but I'm just trying to get another viewpoint.

Thanks in advance!
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