QUESTION 1
What are the trading hours, is it 24 hours, what does this mean ???
http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/exchanges/usIB-pro.php?ib_entity=llc
Exchange Hours
17:30 - 17:00 (ET)*
QUESTION 2
The rule on buying $25000 dollar lotsâ¦using your Forex IDEAL PRO...
So if I wanted a dollar risk of $5000 USD per trade for a negative 10% move against me I could only trade GBPUSD worth of $50,000.
Price : GBPUSD = 1.7683 as per above
My order would be $50,000 divided by 1.7683 = 28275 units of GBPUSD
So I would load into Volume of BID/ASK 28275 @...
try to understand this
Say I have $10,000 USD in Account
Wish to trade GBPUSD
margin is 50:1
Current Price GBPUSD is 1.7683
Does this mean I can Buy : 50 x 10,000 X (1/1.7683) = $279,908 worth of GBPUSD forex..
So if it goes bad at 10% I loose $27,990 USD ..
IB notes...
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