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Doesn't really matter when they expire as any open positions will be auto-rolled into the next. Same with Spot, if you buy at say 9am and hold past a certain time (say 6pm) the spot trade is basically rolled into the next day's Spot.

Choice. Cost of offering 2 is basically the same as offering 1, ie just a bit of programming as the CFD is auto-priced off the spot. Regulation, some countries might only allow certain products over others. Same with CFDS on DAX/ES/Dow etc. IB in Europe offer both the futures and the CFDs...

It's a feature. Along with no head office, or even an office. No CEO No marketing team. No central authority. It's called decentralisation and it's going to be a long term trend for many many things.

If people want to see a long term tenacious trend in action here's one being played out - People who initially dismissed Bitcoin turning into Bitcoin holders. Just last week for example, MicroStrategy used 25% of their treasury to diversify into Bitcoin. That was $250m! And guess what, the...

Sure, but then we'll have a choice won't we. Fed Coin, backed and controlled by the Fed and Bitcoin, backed and controlled by nobody. You think there's a market for both?

What, in every country? Switzerland for example is very pro Bitcoin. Same with Singapore. The Uk to a certain extent. How they'd love some clumsy government to start putting up road blocks. Plus, think about a crush or ban. Wouldn't that prove that it's working? Wouldn't it prove it's a...

It actually has the best security on the planet. Never been hacked, 99.9% uptime over 10+ years. If you think the security is shit, try and hack the network and tell us how you got on.

No average Joe used computers and the internet back in the early 1990s.

Incorrect. Many of course are specs looking to make a $. But many aren't. They look at it as a movement and are willing to sacrifice some of their fiat to join that movement. Note, movement does not mean cult.

1. Costs 2. One is not riskier than the other, they are basically the same. 3. Same on both 4. Work the costs out yourself 5. They are both the same, one is not harder/easier than the other 6. Nothing. Both will make you money if you get the direction right and lose if wrong. CFDs and spot fx...

Yes, good point, TSLA is arguably not a car company as you say. Some also suggest their software is where the value lies, not the making of cars. Whatever the case, fortunes are going to be made and lost on this stock over the next several years, regardless of whether the movement is up or down.

Yeah, and it spoke about Enron as well via 101 Fortune style covers 'Best Run Firm in the US'. Via 101 gushing articles about how it was the company of the future. Via 101 'awards' for this and that and so on. But then look what happened. Not saying that Tesla is the same but there are more...

You can do it on Sierra. Cable is priced in 0.00001, for example - 1.31001 to 1.31002 so the DOM gets pretty stupid. I've therefore set it up to be half a tick so 1.3101 to 1.3101.5

The best book on price action is the one you make yourself. Print (screen dump) all your setups but make TWO charts. The first is at the time of the signal and the second after the signal. This is important because when we have the full picture, ie after the trade, the trade looks simple. But...

Split the account into 10, ie $1500, or maybe even 20. Then risk a fixed 1% of the account on each trade. So if/when the $1500 grows to $1600 the risk per trade now becomes $16. Keep going till you triple the account. Then re-evaulate. The above will work beautifully, assuming 2 things, 1)...

Who really controls the US? Is it the money interests or the dopey politicians? if you think it's the money interests then zero chance of a transaction tax. I think that's the answer.

I admire your honesty because most people on the internet say they make fortunes!

Having a solid game-plan is not good enough in this business because it has to be executed in real-time markets. That in itself is a skill that has to be learnt, often the long and hard way. One of the reasons it's hard to properly execute is because of the fog of trading which is similar to...

Risk management is actually the easiest problem to fix and also requires the least skill/thinking. Trade size of anywhere between 10 basis points and 100 and you'll be fine. But all the best risk management ain't going to be worth jack if your game-plan isn't solid.

THE biggest problem ALL traders face, even the best, is how/where/when to take profits. (assuming of course your game-plan is solid). I belive the reason is there's no proper answer(s) to that question. Whereas there are definite answers to the question of when to buy (assuming long). Sure...