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Nice, it is always cool to hear these stories from former times, thanks for the insight. May I ask which country you are from in Europe ?

Lol, that was long ago before I started trading. Here in Europe trading really started with the dotcom rise and crash around 2000. Nowaydays you dont even need a PC, the kidz trade options from their Iphones lol. But on the other hand, with all that crap around, it is hard to see the forest for...

Thats exactly how it is. Never before traders had so much opportunity for testing, preparation, SIM trading... getting into it without too much risk, or with no risk at all. Sooner or later one has to start trading live, but never before it was possible in such a controlled way, small positions...

By trading with appropriate size as a beginner, which is smaller than what you think right now should be appropriate. Trade small enough that 1,2,.... 10, 20 small losers dont bother you at all.

Yes, this has to be 100% true. Even Interactive Brokes is offering CFDs to their customers, and everybody knows that they are the worst. Who are those few crazy people, desperados that have their accounts with them ?

Nice post, it is not all black and white like many think. One nice advantage of CFDs (not with all brokers, but many) is that your max loss is limited to the cash in your account. You have 5k in your CFD account, and you can be sure thats the max amount you have to worry about. With futures it...

There are good CFDs for equity index products that offer advantages compared to trading ETFs or futures. But for (US) stock trading I would prefer options over CFDs. It is a bit more complex but you will have many advantages by going with stock options instead of CFDs.

Adapting to the liquidity in the market. Not showing all your cards. And more. As an extreme example, why does a big fund not go all in when they buy 50,000 shares of BYND for example ? I know trading is different from investing, but there is a logic behind the execution that applies to both...

I am a very shortterm scalper in futures, but I do pretty much the same, most of the time. Instead of just placing a 20 NQ order, I go in with a clip size of 1-3 contracts and scale into my position. Both in and out.

ROFL ! :D

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/swap.asp A classic example for a swap is an interest rate swap. For example, I have a bond portfolio with fixed interest rates. I dont like this and would prefer variable rates, but I dont want to sell my whole bond portfolio. So I exchange my fixed...

If you still want to avoid those doubled margins for account balances over 100k, you could for example open a second account with another broker or with AMP, or a subaccount, and split up your capital. A second account with another broker is always a good idea as backup. The more different it...

If you trade 100 NQs, you are trading a value of about 30 Million USD (15,000 x 20 x 100). Thats a big amount of capital you are pushing around, and you should be aware of the consequences. Anytime, without any warning, there can be a sudden drop in the market of 1%, 2% or even 5%. 1% drop...

If you get fear in a trade then you trade too much size, or you trade too infrequent or you are not consistent enough. Trade size and frequency can easily be adapted, but if your problem is (lack of) consistency, then it will take time and work to fix it.

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I am used to girls showing their legs, but what the hell is going on in this thread ? Real tough men, posting pics of their legs and stuff ...

Trade more. If you do plenty of trades per day you will probably stop to philosophize about a little, single trade.

You think ? For me, nothing beats the Amiga. But of course this is just my personal taste.