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    Limit stop loss

    Thank you. I was hoping for a clarification on this. However. Feels like a bad way to go about a stop loss... What if the price gaps down to 1.19 at the Pre-open and goes straight down to 0 on a slow gradual decline. Am I supposed to make my Stp price at 1.22 and limit stp at 0 to avoid...
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    Limit stop loss

    Thank you all for your input. I failed to include some important information in my original post, so here goes... I mainly trade Stocks in the US market. I use InteractiveBrokers TWS platform on the mosaic interface. This is how I set my stop loss, as when speaking to customer service at...
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    Limit stop loss

    Hello all Hope you are doing well!! I have had two incidents in the recent weeks where my stop loss didn't work upon the price reaching it. At first time my stop loss got triggered in the after hours, and I realised that my SL was not ticked to work outside normal market hours... So I...
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    US forex broker for mid-long term positions? IB interest is killing me

    Thank you, found it. Looks like I got some 79usd in paper profits :) And about the lots, yes, 100k must be 1 lot, hopefully. If someone can confirm, be my guest.
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    US forex broker for mid-long term positions? IB interest is killing me

    Hmmm, in Mosaic the "Account Window" looks the same as it does in TWS Under "Market Value - real FX balance I see 3 currencies - CHF, NZD, USD and since I was only buying nzdchf ( afaik) I am confused why there is USD currency on the list. Regardless, under the "unrealized" I see 0 next to...
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    US forex broker for mid-long term positions? IB interest is killing me

    Hello guys I have a Interactive Brokers account and wanted to trade forex, but I strugle to understand how the profit/loss is calculated ( or where it is even shown ) IF I buy usdchf the currencies will be split, and the money shown on each of the currency, so I have to calculate the p/l...
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