Recent content by yigal

Hi All, I am looking for a stock broker that would let me trade on 1:5 or higher margin. Could not find anybody but IG and Saxo, offering CFDs, would appreciate your suggestions.

I would like to ask exactly what it means when a currency cross has a historical volatility of, say, 10%. I understand that the 10% is the volatility expressed in annual terms, and that it represents a one standard deviation move. Also, I understand that one standard deviation represents two...

Worked with all of them, personaly think Dukascopy to be better one.

I am with Duka for almost 3 years and haven't seen spread lower than 0.5 and that's for EURUSD only. On what pairs and what time you've seen zero spread on Duka?

First of all, how come you are being a daytrader thinking of a yearly P&L. I am being a daytrader thinking only of my daily P&L. And only if I don’t meet me daily goals i think about my acc. as in yearly terms.

Hi Everyone, I am a profitable trader, and recently started managing an account for my friends. For some reason I started missing "my" trades and got too nervous to take even a few ticks drawdown. Instead of making 12-15 ticks daily I started to lose the same 12-15 ticks. Anyone had the same...

Hi everyone, Does anyone know why they sometimes have a zero spread on Currenex and other ECNs, say 1.4150 bid and 1.4150 ask that dont match. As far as I understand any matching orders supposed to be filled as in the case above 1.4150 bid is supposed to match 1.4150 ask and both orders...

Forget about the news trading, it's a waste of time and money. One could have made descent money 3 years ago when NFP moved the cable 200pips one way months after months, and all the Brokers offered a guaranteed entry/stop orders. But that is gone now, and the "new" auto click software won’t...

Seemed like a very simple question............

Hi Everyone, Should I expect higher volatility today, or Oil (Brent) doesn't pay much attention to the US rates? Thanks.