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if 60 does not fit - it does not fit - and it does not skew the results - it is the results - using 65 is not solving anything - except giving you 65min bars! you just use 60min bars - but 30 are much better anyway ( 2 x 30 is a 60) and low and behold - they fit the time correctly!

so effectivly if you enter a but limit at 1105 - you are entering a market order - so why not just do it as a market order anyway? if you have your platform always ready to send an order - you would have had to have used a market order - since you might send the order at a time when the...

$10 r/t is the most expensive you can pay- and i still would love to hear of anyone who can make money at $10 - and i mean real money year in year out

in relation to seeking a profit, you could take a view that the futures were already oversold to a degree going into friday, and that the next deviation level would be the maximum deviation for this contract and the low for this contract, and since this was created without reference to the cash...

if i understand you correctly - you are just seeing how the futures sold off after the cash closed the futures can only really be considered to be at a discount or premium to the cash - when the cash market is open otherwise the premium or discount shoud be referred to as being in...

one way to manage downside is to make a lot of money when the wind is with you the begining trader naturally looks at the upside as that is why he got into trading - and yes - it takes a bit of time to learn that protecting the downside is a very important factor, that will end up making...

def -However, if we use an offshore affiliate as the market maker and the local companies as executing brokers and find a firm/bank that recognizes the true portfolio risk of the position. - Why not do the whole trade yourselves and still use the firm/bank that recognises the true risk?

saschabr supposing that you had started with a 5K account, and trading 2K leverage, and had worked the account up in a few months to 40K and trading 40 contracts with1K leverage - would it then be right - to be trading 40 contracts with 1K margin? again, I am not advocating high leverage...

matthew its my fault for not being able to explain what i mean there is no set definition for anything - margined to the hilt - means different things to different people and you normally can only get the margin from a broker/clearer and each of those will take a different view based on...

mathew i don't think you get what i am saying are you a trader?

craigross so are you saying that as long your account is with the clearer -that there is no difference for the trader which broker they use

def ok, i am going to sit down with a bottle of wine and figure this one out!

TriPack absolutly the point is that the amount your broker will allow you is just an amount to protect the broker and the opening leverage for a position is not the only factor - how far will the broker allow you to take a losing position is far more important and dangerous every...

def i guess that takes me back to my original point - that the viability of a broker - does not affect the upgrading of equipment etc - since that is the clearers responsibility

craigross so are you saying that the guarantee is really something that favours the guaranteed IB and is a way for the clearer to get an IB to use just one clearer, since the clearer takes away the downside for the guaranteed broker - wheras an IB who uses more than one clearer would have to...

saschabr you mean - what seems reasonable to you - relative to your style of trading or a beginer or?

craigross so what does the guarantee cover? since your money is with the clearer whether the broker is independent or guaranteed

def isnt interactives institutional business - purely the supply of your software trading platform

so if you are with an IB that is with more than one clearer - is your account monies held by the clearer or the IB? - who do you fill out your accout forms with?

of course trading past a certain leverage in the wrong market conditions by an inexperienced trader is going to blow up the trader - but what is maximum leverage? there is no such thing - there is a right amount for each trader and his trading style which includes money management all the...