On the other hand if you are interest in guaranteed investments you could purchase bonds based on the movement of major indices that offer little lower returns but total protection from losses and you are paid interest rates at maturity.
I know of a Hedge fund listed on the FTSE -Man Group- and you can get in and out of it when you fell like.
Returns on this paticular fund can be over 15% a year.
No hedge fund as far as I know can guarantee protection from losses and therefore any kind of return.
I have never been profitable over time trading ES and now I trade it very occasionally on after-hours.
But if i saw a change in ticksize I'd probably start trading it more often and maybe then I'd have a chance of becoming profitable.
The poll looks worring: nobody that started young seems to have made it past 34...and traders aged above 45 are very few, and they probably didn't start trading when 20yrs old
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I made some money trading the FTSE during the London terror attacks.
When I looked back initially I felt uncomfortable but as soon as I told myself it was my job I was ok.
Remember that thanks to daytraders there's ample liquidity in the markets; and liquidity is necessary during market...
Can anyone be so kind to tell me what front-end application is the best to work with IB TWS using a mac?
I checked Zeroline trader but Im not sure mac would support the software...
Do you trade this tumultuous market?
I had some success in the past trading digital barriers and binary options on crude but now I'm having a hard time figuring out the very next move.
Sooner or later a trader, in order to become a promising one, will have to change his posture and realize that gloom&doom scenarios are not for real a common reoccurrence.
Don't start using max leverage.
Theoretically you should use no more than 60% of you total margin account to trade. And if you start with small size you can make more trades, gaining more exposure and accumulate invaluable experiences.
After all there's no point in trading huge size if you...