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I would be strictly daytrading as well... no overnight holds.

I'm planning to have $15,000 for drawdowns and an extra $10,000 or so just to maintain equity in case of a max drawdown. If I had $25,000 to start, and took a drawdown of around $15,000, could I still continue to trade with just 10k in my account? Would I only be able to trade one...

I'm wondering how much equity most brokers require to trade one contract of the following futures - GBP/USD (BP) Gold (ZG) Bund (BD) Dax (XG) Cac 40 (MT)

Yes, talking long term here

The library.

Just curious if anyone else is getting long on the British Pound? Lots of potential here.

So I'm finally where I want to be with my trading - making a steady income and now able to travel abroad and trade. Before I trade overseas I want to upgrade my laptop, so I'm interested in hearing what type of computer you guys would buy if you were in my position? I've been looking at...

good thread man, some interesting ideas... do you ever follow price action after the acquisition? It seems to me that after the after the acquisition the investment bank comes in and runs a buy or sell algorithym on the acquired stock and works it up or down to a specific price...

Anyone know of a North American brokerage that has access to trade China b-shares? I initially looked at Interactive, but they don't have access to the Chinese exchanges...

Does anyone know where I would find English copies of financial statements for Chinese b-share companies?

10% monthly?!? Are you serious? Where did you find about these preferred shares? I'm assuming these companies must be on the verge of going under if they're offering such huge dividends...

Was watching a youtube video on inflation, and it talked about the best places to be in times of inflation are gold, silver, and agriculture. Can someone comment on the agriculture play? Would it be the price of wheat, sugar etc. that would be increasing with inflation? As far as I know...

For those who have a stronger economic background than me, maybe you can help me out - if one country's GDP is expected to grow by 10% next year and another country expects to see only 1% GDP growth, would you expect the currency of the country with the greater GDP growth to outperform that of...

What are the regulations regarding foreign companies and how often they have to report? I assume that because they are traded on an American exchange they report quarterly just like the rest, is this correct? Is the 6-K the equivalent of the quarterly report?

Is there a website that calculates the p/e ratio for an entire index?

Do any of you ever put on a calendar straddle... ie short the front-end put and call and then buy the back-end put and call? What are the risks here?

If I want to purchase bonds from countries such as Brazil, Russia, Indonesia etc. how would I go about doing it? Can the individual do deals like this, or do you need to be in with an institution?

Are there any free websites out there that I can throw a bunch of ticker symbols into and it will rank them by average volume? I want to be able to a 100 or so symbols at a time, as opposed to looking them up individually.

Hi guys, I am looking for some software I can use for pair trading with a prop firm... (looking for a prop firm too) . Are any of the pair trading software programs out there compatible with the platform's used by prop firms?? I want to automate and run numerous pairs at once, my strategy is...

Thanks for everyone who responded or sent me a pm. I've learned a few new things this week. For one, it sounds like US based firms can only operate in BC, not in any other provinces... can anyone comment on this?