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You can't lose more than you put in. Don't expect to lose your house if you put in only $1000. :) Your broker won't let it happen because the loss will be first of all in his books. Your money is just a collateral. Brokers money is what you trade with. You can't lose more than your collateral...

I am just trying to compare what I believe is oranges to oranges - those are two numbers brought up by you for the month of december.

So you turned a loss of $1433 as of December 20 into $11173 within 10 days. Very good.

Maybe, but I doubt it.

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As far as I know Forex spot trading is not regulated.

If you tell me what are your many ways of making money, I'll probably tell you what you should do not to lose it. But I personally don't understand how would someone know the ways to make money if eventually he's going to lose it all - since this knowledge should not be worth much.

Wouldn't be a fair value of 1 eur = 1 USD?

I am not sure I understand your thinking. Because my knowledge on the subject is also limited from my standpoint holding a portfolio of bonds is more or less equivalent to bying a closed end bond fund in terms of their default rate. Because not all individual bonds in your portfolio would live...

I think it's a good idea to invest a portion of your profits in bonds. I would recommend to invest in closed-end muni funds like vkl, bfk or high yield funds like hyf, dhf, pty.

The "new" broker means what it means - it is "new" and not many people are familiar with it. Sometimes you have to be first to explore new stuff that comes across.

Why? Why not to sell the first straddle?

I believe xpressfutures offeres to buy Tbills on the cash available.

I would say the cash market leads both.

Question: what happens with the long position in case the futures contract was never sold and has expired? Does the investor have to buy the underlying commodity after expiration or the contract is closed out by the brokerage firm and this way delivery is prevented?

I know another sure way to make consistent money - by bying low and selling high.

It all depends on your stratgy. The more conservative it is the smaller capital you need.

The leverage is totally in your hands.

That's where you should gradually pump in your cash reserve that you keep in any other assets. No the return should be 96%.

It does make sense to hold index futures long term because of their leverage. If let's say their leverage is 1:10 & given that historical average growth of s&p500 is 10% anually then the expected capital growth with futures would be 100% - 4% = 96% annually.