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    KOSPI 200M Korean Future Ban ?

    Yes, KOSDAQ150 is a good substitute. Made a couple trades today. Thank you
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    KOSPI 200M Korean Future Ban ?

    Because I want something to trade at 7pm EST. K200M is a good vehicle.
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    KOSPI 200M Korean Future Ban ?

    Did the CFTC ban Americans from trading this ? Interactive Brokers is saying there are now regulatory restrictions and I can't place a trade. But I can't find any information about this.
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    What Is Something I Can Trade During European Hours ?

    Right now I've had success with highly liquid stocks on the Nasdaq that I trade at the open of the New York session 9:30am Eastern. I generally only make one or two trades a session, sticking with the same stock. I just want a vehicle that I can repeat this process for the night sessions. I...
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    What Is Something I Can Trade During European Hours ?

    I prefer the 5 min chart. What matters to me in terms of time frame is that the spread for the vehicle is no more than 1/20th of the range for that time frame. For instance, if it's a stock and it has a 1 cent spread and it easily moves more than 20 cents in 5 minutes, then the 5min chart is...
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    What Is Something I Can Trade During European Hours ?

    I'm located in the US, and use Interactive Brokers. Looking for a trading vehicle that I can trade after midnight, eastern time. I've found that forex does not move enough, so that's out. Any suggestions? Exact symbols would be helpful if anyone has actual experience. I've tried to do...
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    I'm losing money and can't stop. How do you be patient?

    You are not rewarding yourself adequately after successfully following your plan and are instead seeking pleasure from the dopamine rush of a winning trade. This is forcing you to pull the trigger since all you want is that rush, even if it comes after 5 losers. My suggestion, is that every time...
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    EUR/CHF wipeout/margin call ... negative balance ... what to do?

    If IB does not forgive these negative balances while Oanda does they are basically telling people not to do business with them. This could have happened to anyone. Don't believe me ? What happens when Germany announces randomly that they're leaving the Euro and you just happen to be in a Euro...
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    Did Interactive Active Brokers Honor CHF Stops Thursday ?

    Yeah, my preliminary calculations appear it be in line with what you're saying. I'm wondering if fx futures options are the only way to go, or will the spreads, slippage commissions on those make that unrealistic as a replacement for forex. I have a trading strategy that has positive expectancy...
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    Did Interactive Active Brokers Honor CHF Stops Thursday ?

    Interesting. I found this too http://www.barchart.com/commodityfutures/Euro_FX_Futures/options/E6Z15?mode=d&view= Now need to figure out how this stuff translates into forex to get the cost of my example.
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    Did Interactive Active Brokers Honor CHF Stops Thursday ?

    Lets say I want protect to myself from anything past a 50 pip move in a pair. For instance EURUSD is at around 1.1563 And say I wanted to buy 4 Lots 400K worth, but make sure I took no more losses past 1.1513. (This isn't an actual trade I'm going to do just an example) What vehicle should...
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    Did Interactive Active Brokers Honor CHF Stops Thursday ?

    The only thing I can think of is the Chinese yuan, I believe has a peg with the U.S dollar. This currency seems to correlate highly with the Australian dollar. Whenever there is an announcement out of China, AUD.USD seems to bounce around. So I'm thinking that trading AUD.USD might be a problem...
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    Did Interactive Active Brokers Honor CHF Stops Thursday ?

    I heard that Oanda honored stops that people had placed. Can anyone verify ? I'm with IB but I was not in a CHF pair. Yesterday may have changed forever the way I think about trading. There is literally nothing a person who just so happened to be on the wrong end of that trade could have done...
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