Recent content by alexkofler

actually FF is a forum that is pretty much dedicated to noobs in my eyes (just take a look at their most followed thread "how i made 100K from 1K in one week" - LOL :D) wouldn't care too much about them. maybe you're right and you suggested something that the admins didn't like. My first...

haha lol 60sec VIX binaries :D awesome joke! :) But since you're a new member, I'll give you the benefit of doubt: No, you cannot trade 60 second binaries on the VIX. I strongly advise you against betting on binary options at all! That's a complete loser's game. Roulette has a far greater...

FF is a typical trading industry website. they want to make money, from advertisement, shared broker fees, selling some useless trading courses,... and yes, I agree 99% of the members are noobs. there's no sense in banning quality contributing members, because - as you pointed out - their...

I forgot, there are also a couple of prop firms who accept swing traders (leverage 10:1)

Thank you note, I'm glad I could be of help for you. Again, I want to stress out that your entry ideas and the SL settings are very good. I do this almost the same way. So you did learn the most important part already! What you should concentrate on now are the "soft factors". - Check out the...

sorry, the only legal workaround that comes to my mind is opening an account through another person (eg a lawyer) or (forming a) company outside the US. I've heard of a guy who found an UK passport picture on Google and simply photoshopped his name inside. Would not recommend this, though.

Thanks @NoDoji BTW, I like the rabbit in your photo ;)

Let's get back to helping the OP @note My respect for getting up at 4:30 to trade before your job. First, I believe you should find a better instrument or time frame for trading than EUR/USD. EUR/USD is very tough intraday. Rather start with a cash future, like ES, YM and NQ for daytrading...

not sure if you can successfully dupliate an equity strategy on options basis. probably ok for a few days, but if you hold it for two weeks, options premium decay will really eat your profits. you sound like you just need more leverage. so rather go in that way. CFD gives you 10:1 leverage...

I trade CFD's with Interactive Brokers.

----- If being a bit more specific... I need to reduce size on each position until comfortable given the possibility of a large (10-80%) gap against. I was thinking a quarter of the account per position, but an eighth would in fact be more my comfort level. In the extreme case 1/8 * 80% be...

i prefer to go with the trend, not against it :)

Maybe a little OT, but I noticed you don't trust the USD and US stocks (-30% stocks, -30% USD, +15%EUR +20% jpy). I regularly read this estimatation on blogs that talk about USA's overwhelming debt and that its economy goes down. Being German, I think that's funny. Did you notice how the EUR...

Jack, I'd say 1,000 stocks shouldn't be a problem, unless you take some very low-volume stock. I remember somebody saying that you should be alright trading 10% of the current volume. So, 10% of the M1 volume as a daytrader, 10% of the H1 or the daily volume as a swing trader,... One more...

thanks CALLumbus :)