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I am glad that someone else agrees that it's too expensive to carry forex positions overnight at IB. For a moment I thought that it's only me having those huge monthly charges... IB's web-pages are silent about the exact time the daily interest is calculated. Anyone?

A comment on your scenario: The stop-orders become market-orders when hit and get filled at the bid, so you make profits on the current spread (which can also artificially widen). The limit orders at the same level don't matter (you neither gain or lose).

IB should state the interest credited/debited per day and per currency in the *daily* statements, so we can all check what is really going on. I paid too much in interest charges at IB, and I wasn't able to tell why or do at least a simple check if that was done correctly.... Also, can...

Strange that you haven't. I am not talking about a single month event. It had been happening every single month for half a year. I was trading the minimum size; the deal gets better for larger accounts. Also, setting the base currency to USD doesn't help at all for amounts less than 10000...

I actually brought up the same issue sometime ago, but I got no satisfactory answer from IB. My calculations also say that the risk of such a position is less than double, so IB's margin model must be wrong. (Unless I am wrong.... please corrent me.) Also, the increased 3,33% margin...

There is also lots of slippage on IdealPro's stop-orders recently, even on periods of low volatility. I had stops executed with slippage of 5-7pips on EUR/USD and 10pips(!) on EUR/CHF. I contacted them about the *very*annoying* 10pips slippage on EUR/CHF, and they replied with the...

Everybody can see that...don't be a sucker...:D :D :D

Currently @ 1.1780 It smells like a quick run up to 1.20... Anyone else smells this? (also, EUR/JPY ---currently 139.89--- smells like 142+) Anyone short? :D :D :cool:

The market is trying to squeeze him out of the position?

90pips on GBPJPY is something like 55pips on EURUSD (very good, but not the greatest achievement after all). And what's so surprising? GBPJPY spikes 90pips all the time... and this is not called a crash. Getting high over there? When are you going to learn to stop counting in pips?!? How...

I hope you are aware that your six figures aren't insured.

My 1-3dayswings system gave a sell on EUR/CAD yesterday at around 1.4100 which looks much better than the sell on EUR/USD. A

Despite the extra liquidity, the CHF/JPY spread widen from 2 to 3-4pips since late Friday....

Add a rule to fill your order with a probability, let's say, 20%. That will do for backtest purposes.

Note that Philishave, electric toothbrush, vitamins, and tabacco (and filters), are accessible on a short notice... Equity-curve since Jan'04 at the bottom-left corner :D You don't need 1000 screens...

My account works according to what is described here: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/marginRequirements/currency.php What I am trying to say is that I think that "part two" in the margin calculation described in your webpage adds to the margin requirements more than the...

According to the yen charts of the last few months, this doesn't seem to be true anymore. Any chance of increasing the leverage to 50:1 soon? Also, if someone is flat or short her base currency there is this double margin requirement for trading pairs not including the base currency. Is...

Why is the leverage only 33:1 for JPY at IB? (so higher margin is required) I don't see any higher risk than other currencies. Anyone knows why?