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My point is that leverage has no relationship to a stop loss being hit, price does. The way it was worded implied that using high leverage means the trade is suddenly more apt to hit a stop loss - which is basically only true in a fairly indirect manner. As far as regulations go, we'll probably...

And now come the "journalists" following the trail of blood. Why do they never write these "exposes" on their own time without a precipitating event? Oh that's right, eyeballs and $$$. Also, leverage == more likelyhood stop loss will be hit? Such crap sensationalism. I agree with the sentiment...

Definitely not true. Quite a few funds and institutionals got their faces kicked in as well. Irresponsible timing by the SNB IMO, but it still seems like a nickels/steamroller setup.

Someone tell me if I have this right... So the total negative balance of these 5 traders should be 80% of 120m USD which is 96m USD -> ~110m EUR (at the present rate). To go near 110m EUR underwater, n lots RF would have to go from 550m EUR to 440m EUR value. At the time, RF margins would...

What's new here? Looks straight forward.

Yep, like a pay day loan!

Are you seriously that dense?

It's called symbolism. You might have just failed the turing test.

So while we all know the CHF made a pretty extreme move, does anyone else agree this could be yet another case of using leverage to squeeze juice from a stone and the inevitable steamroller coming around for a visit? It seems like every time there's some kind of opportunity where people can...

As long as you have enough cores available it's not going to make a significant difference. Additionally, once you have over 16GB of RAM, there's just no effective difference actually occurring past that point. Pull up task manager. See that section that says "cached?" That's all the left over...

Less is more.

Yep this seems like a pretty risky possibly pound foolish strategy that might end up with a lot of resultant hassle for little gain if timing or liquidity is less than ideal.

Thought you would know by now that the first thing in trading to be beaten out of oneself is the need to be right. You really do appear to have some ego in this one.

Personally I think the CME and IB margins on typical forex pairs is just about right. Shops doing 100-200:1 etc is just too damn much. Sure it attracts a bunch of gamblers and that's what it's designed to do - but there's a point where it gets a bit ridiculous. Per pair margins seem dead...

If oil ever actually does a peak oil will there even be a point speculating on it? Collectively we're so dependent on it for everything that I think we'd be in pretty deep doodoo if it goes 200-300$+. The bigger concern is if we have enough oil to bootstrap ourselves off of oil. Otherwise, back...

http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/fx/g10/euro-fx_contract_specifications.html

300k$, wow. They might as well create futures contracts on CBOT seats.

I guess that leaves out CHF futures with anything less than a 125k$ account, right? Might as well be 1:1 leverage. IMO the "problem" here is that markets and risk control don't really work when true black swan events happen. Liquidity disappearing because no one will take the other side of the...

There's buyers and there's sellers. They have to do something. Each move they make helps identify their intent. The markets don't look like this, right? Not saying that one should trade exclusively patterns, but to ignore them and the trail of buy/sell pressure would be throwing out a...

The irony here is that "day traders" would have most likely been flat at that time - and hence safe.