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That's teh way it works with "unregulated" trading such as forex and spread-betting. If a trader know what he/she is doing, the margin is never fully utilised.

Ask Apex Futures again... Written contracts usually prevails over what a salesperson said on the phone. The way it usually works with futures is there is "initial" and "maintenance" margin. "Miantenance margin is usually significantly lower, maybe 66% of the "initial" margin. You need to have...

This is quite a profound discovery: The less-known phenomenon:

It's also about not having a large loss when you are having a down day. By the way, I see you posted a quote. Is it from someone famous?

This is a very good point. Perhaps you can run 2 systems taking exactly opposite trades.. and see if both of them loose at the same time.

What I recently find the toughest is not to run winners but to take profits timely, before the price reverts. Notice that it's much easier to take 2-3 small wins than to find a good entry for a large win and then hold it all the way. Do you find that after you had 2-3 loosing trades in a row...

also read this story about a random-entry system.

oleyefi, I'm glad you decided to post info on the firm. This will serve as a warning to any potential "customers" and will hopefully cut into the firm's "business".

Hi Craig ,I understand from your Web-site you don't have separate "initial" and "maintenance" intraday margins. Is it correct?:

Commissions and bid/offer spread are a key element of P&L for short-term trades.

A month ago a number of brokerages had intraday margin on ES in the range of $500 - $600. By now most brokerages increased margin requirements to account for market volatility in the last 2-3 weeks. If you see they still offer $500 on the Web-site, it's probabbly because ethey haven't updated...

I disagree here. It would be virtually impossibole to call bottom or top so precisely. However, most analysts issue buy recommendation after the uptrend has been established and issue sell recommendation after seeing clear downtrend. The trick is by the time the existence of a trend is beyond...

Here are the 6 largest foreign exchange ECNs (in no particular order): FXall (Accelor) + LavaFX (acquired by FXall) FX Connect (State Street) + Currenex (acquired by State Street) 360T Baxter-FX ICAP (EBS) HotSpot FX A few links for further reading: Euromoney FX survey 2010 London...

Apparently, the government thinks so with all the "anti-money-laundering" regulations.

That's the most efficient use of screen space I have seen so far.

Where did you find a pink one? Is it a gurls-only prop shop? In the spirit of duct tape, you can use post-it notes or their "software" analogue or even any other always-on-top applications like Windows Task Manager.

Not true. Think commodity futures! Short-selling exists where there is sufficient suply of units that can be treated as of identical quality/usability over prolonged period of time. This applies to equity stocks.. but it also applies to iron ore and pig bellies. It doesn't applie to home...

I've doen a fair bit of Web-serching regaring an efficient use of a laptop with 2 external monitors. This is one of the supposed experiences I found on the forums. Please take it for what it is.

from the spec page you linked I cannot guarantee that it works as I don't own the exact model you have. If it was me I would give it a try. If you can borrow 2 monitors and connect them, that would answer the question. If it can handle 2 low-resolution monitors, its' 99% chance it can handle...

Considering a laptop comes with a decent (built-in) screen, it's not always more expensive than a matching desktop+monitor combination. I understand the main sacrifice is upgradability.