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Niche emerging markets ETFs like ECON, GXG or BRAQ have quite high Total Expense Ratio (over 0.75% per year). If you buy and hold these ETFs for many years, the cost will quickly add up. I was thinking about buying the underlying stocks themselves rather than the ETFs since most of the...

any thoughts?:p

Hi guys, I had a thought about all this and believe you're right, due to various fee, IB is more suitable to Active investors than buy and hold investors. I am now considering the broker lightspeed, the account will be hold in USD and will cover the currency risk with another forex broker...

fair point. Would you know a cheap broker that allows deposits in GBP. The ones I know are American ones and do not allow GBP deposits. There are brokers here in the UK but they charge £10 commission

Hi H2O and thanks for the clarification. I understand what you said about the loan and the interest I would have to pay based on a USD 3,000 investment in the example. As you said, overtime, the interest will add up and could have a very significant impact on the performance of my investment...

Hi CdnTrader, I am planning to buy and hold ETFs In USD for several years (very long term). Say I deposited GBP 10,000 in the account and I buy USD 3,000 worth of ETF. As I hold overnight, how will the margin be shown (as GBP 2,000)? With regards to Ideal, I am not sure how that works...

Hi RWK and thanks for the prompt reply. The 1st link you sent is great. How did you find this page, I could not see it on IB's website. From that link, I understand the deposit will remain in the base currency I choose, ie in GBP, whatever the currency I trade, that is exactly what I was...

I am a UK resident and I'd like to deposit funds with a broker in GBP and keep my deposit in GBP (even if trade in securities denominated in other currencies, example USD and EUR). I went on IB's website and I read, the minimum requirement to open an account is: "USD 10,000 (or non-USD...

I read that in the long term, the returns are as follow: equities > gilts > cash Am I wrong?

yes please

I am a UK resident looking to invest in an asset almost as liquid as cash while keeping a low risk profile and having a better return than cash. Here in the UK, the best easy access savings accounts have returns of 2.75%. 3-year fixed term bonds can return about 4% but the money needs to...

Averaging 5 points a day, is it realistic? certainly not. Change the word "points" by "ticks", and yes, averaging 5 ticks a day is possible for an experienced trader. Still only very few traders manage to pull 5 ticks a day clean of commission. 5 points is a dream, it won't happen. 5 ticks...

The other advantage of bund, bobl and schatz is the commission cost. I don't know any other future that is cheaper than these three. Eurostoxx is a bit more expensive. ES a LOT more expensive to trade in terms of commission.

Ticktacker, I use X-Trader for free. Only requirements are: - you need at least USD 1,500 in your account at all times - you need to do at least one R/T per month and yes, what you see is what you pay

Spot forex is a joke with brokers being bucket shops trading against their clients and creating spikes to make them lose, or freeze the trading platform so the client cannot exit the trade. I'll stick with futures

Hi there, I started trading the 6E (euro future) a few months ago. I am in Europe and trade from home in the evenings after work, either the last few hours of the day session or the first few hours of the night session. I 've had some consistent results so far, averaging 6.6 ticks clean per...

1500 lots max per clip on ES is wrong, I've seen a clip of 2774 lots on ES today.

The broker Velocity Futures provides X-Trader7 TT with a FESX round trip all in commission of EUR 2.46 for small traders doing 0-2499 contracts/month (they provide X-Trader for free, i.e. I don't pay the USD 500 monthly fee to TT but my broker charges me an additional USD 1.00 for each round...

Question for those using Quote Tracker. I am looking for a charting software. Is quote tracker compatible with Trading Technology feed (TT) and broker Velocity Futures? I can't find this broker on the Quote Tracker website.

Hi, I am not a scalper with a 1 or 2 ticks target, I trade for anything between 5 and 30 ticks mostly on the FESX Say I am bullish and want to go long using a limit order. Sometimes the market goes up before I could buy and I miss the train and therefore I try to buy again using a limit...