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This is What I got from IB Customer service: "US residents are restricted to trade Leverage forex" " There would be a Leveraged Forex balance if your account held a net short absolute value amount in terms of your account's base currency. In order for a "Forex" transaction to be considered...

Hello, I am new to forex trading, I have a silly question. I opened account with Interactive Brokers, and account balance is $50K, today I tried to buy 100K of EURUSD, I thought this is just 2 times leverage, but my order rejected, seems like over leveraged. My max order is 50K, it that...

Scataphagos, thank you for commendation for Dell workstation, I bought T3500 with W3690 six years ago, almost every day it is on from 6am to 10pm without any problem, only replaced SSD and added some memory sticks. Recently, when I compare T3620 with T5810, with similar CUP and Graphics card...

@Handle123, where is your initial stop? Thanks.

Agree with Xspurt, SC is a better choice, platform is cheaper, and with 5 second rechecked data for accurate bar, and you don't need to pay additional data feed. Also SC is much easier to trade with, but be alert, at the beginning, you will feel overwhelmed, because SC has a lot of customized...

IB - I noticed IB intraday chart produced many incorrect bars yesterday, and today it is still not correct, could you check the attached comparison and let me know when you will fix this? Thanks

They are idiots, my first T3500 can't even run my U3011 to max, so they have to replace the card, so any duel link DVI or Displayport should run it well.

Thank you sle. I think the hedging cost is high too, and I hope interest rate won't increase that much in 6 month.

Thank you Frank, I know nothing about interest instrument, could you elaborate? What is tlt? Is it ishares Barclays 20+ YR TRES BOND FD? If so, how many put contract can hedge $250,000?

Thank you qqqoptions.

I am going to use cash to buy a Short Sale home as an investment property, because it is a good deal and lender only take cash offer. I talked to my loan officer and was told I can cash out after 6 months of purchasing the property, but I am afraid of the interest rate may be higher than the...

Try to know about CL, and have a very stupid question: CL May will expire tomorrow, do you still trade CL May today or you already started to trade CL June many days ago? What the date you start to trade the coming CL since CL expire every month? Thank you so much for help on this.

Just curious what pattern leads you to buy the stocks in down trend?