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What I said is "buying lower" is a losing strategy. Now you argue with "buying a few ticks lower." These are two different concepts. "buying lower" means you trade against trend. "buying a few ticks lower" you don't necessarily trade against trend, but just pick more contracts at a few ticks...

The way you trade, is a losing strategy. In your example, you buy at 2910,2908, you get lower prices, at the same time you get lower probability of winning.When you know the price goes from 2912 to 2910,2908, then next price move is more likely to go to 2906,2904,or 2910,2912?Of course price is...

What I suggested is a system that will not be affected by volatility. At least for my system, when I make my entry, I clearly know where is my stop point and where is my profit target. If on a much more volatile day, I find that my stop loss point will be 3 times as usual,(the profit target is...

You seems to suggest his loss came from his deviating from his usual method for emotional reason on that day. If that was true, then his only problem is emotional control. But I think there could be another reason. Let's say when his system catch a market turning point, there will be always...

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The problem is you may not know beforehand if market will be volatile today.When you know it, it is too late and you already lose big. My best guess is , OP does have some edge, but there are flaws in his system.At least there are two: one is related to leverage; the other is related to...

There are no legal consequences if US retail traders trade with offshore forex brokers. A firm accepting US customer may face CFTC charge with civil penalties but I never heard such thing as customers' accounts frozen. Offshore banks accounts can be frozn for money laundering, but not for...

I have less than $20 in my TDameritrade account. I never made any trade for several years, yet I used TOS for several years. I heard some guys who didn't put any money in their accounts, but still were able to use TOS.

Planning risk ahead of time, don't short euro. Long euro, long gold, short equity.

You don't need to trade with tdameritrade.Just have an account with them and use their platform, and trade with IB.

Look at your platform, there is a place showing your balance, equity ,positions and margin used, free margin.Compare your margin used and free margin, you will have an idea how much margin you still have, and when you could fall below margin requirement.

It used to have daytrading margin but later exchange modified it. So it is subject to each broker to set its daytrading margin. Most retail futures brokers set daytrading margin at $500.

If you If you trade stocks, open an account at TDameritrade, their platform thinkorswim is very good, and it is free as long as you have an account.

$300 is for intraday margin, so it should correspond to intraday exchange margin, which is 1/2 overnight margin.

My two offshore brokers set liquidation level at 60% and 15% of margin. So oanda is just conservative. For example, interactivebrokers set futures margin at higher than exchange margin, while AMP has ES intraday margin at as low as $300, which is about 1/10 of exchange margin. So if I don't...

I know this is because they don't want to take risk. I know some trader's account positions were sold at 70 pips below market price when his account was liquidated. So there may be circumstance that when broker liquidate you positions, they may get a much lower price. If it is lower than your...

They didn't screw you. They let you know their margin rule beforehand.It is your responsibility to meet their requirement, or you can simply choose another broker. If you trade futures, then maintenance margin is 80% of initial margin. Anytime you fall below maintenance margin, brokers have...

Of cause you lost something.When you took a position,you lost spread, which would cause system to detect your balance to fall a little bit,and that caused your account to fall below margin requirement,since you were at 100% margin.

AMP has many trading platforms,out of them, 13 are free. AMP also has lower commissions than IB. https://www.ampfutures.com/platforms/

Each broker has its own margin policy. Some brokers liquidate only after the third margin call, while other don't have margin call at all, they simply liquidate if your account fall below certain margin level. In oanda case, they don't close your position when they first give you a margin call...