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What would you do different with more capital ?

Yes, I see your point. A longterm trend follower would probably not have been trapped, or even if he would have been trapped he maybe would have not cared that much about it. But for a longterm trendfollower the risk that I discuss here, the risk of a highly leveraged scalper, is not really...

Thank you for your input. Food for thought... With your view on 911 however I dont agree: "Anticipating market chaos, panic selling and a disastrous loss of value in the wake of the attacks, the NYSE and the Nasdaq remained closed until September 17, the longest shutdown since 1933. Moreover...

It is clear that it is a solution, it is like an insurance. Of course one will have to pay a price for this. I have not too much knowledge about options so I have no idea what I have to expect. Will for sure have to check this out soon. Thank you for pointing it out again.

Hopefully you will find someone with one brain cell, that would already double your intellectual capacity. Now go back trading your sooperdooper retail forex arbitrage strategy on your 15 EUR accounts with your cypriot and zimbabwean licensed and regulated brokers. ROFL :finger:

You are right, there is no solution for this how you describe it. If you are long in a highly leveraged position, and a nuclear bomb is dropped somewhere, of course you will pay the price for the long position you took. This is the kind of risk that I am willing to accept, this is part of...

This sounds good, and similiar to a server-side OCO solution. The problem is again when there is a blackout or similar at the exchange, or if there is a huge gap. No kind of stop will probably help you in such a case. I will need some kind of insurance (not sure if this exists) or options...

Thank you, I will have a look :thumbsup:

I dont trade them at the same time any more, did that in the past, but now I like to focus mostly on one instrument, usually ES and/ or NQ. Sometimes some FDAX and/ or FESX in the morning, but since I prefer to do offer stuff than just trading with my day I now try to focus my stuff on the US...

Several means more than one :) ... in my case 2-3. I dont have 5 internet connections and 9 cellphones lol. Short term, for me: best case (which is most of my trades): less than a minute, many are closed after less than 10 seconds, on average probably something around 20-30 seconds. Sometimes...

Loool, this is good shit, I have to remember that just in case :cool::thumbsup:

Beertrading, thank you for your comment. You are right, even if I need to trade at least some size to make some decent money, I have to constantly re-evaluate my actions and risks and take the right measures to not let it go too much into the extreme. I did not understand your last sentence...

Truetype, thanks for the input. You are an options trader ? Is there a good options broker you could recommend ?

I understand this. But why are there then corp. accounts at all, if at the end of the day there is again a private, individual person that is liable for everything ? The sense of a LLC or GmbH is exactly that, to limit the losses to what a company has in capital. This is accepted by law and in...

Brackets make alot of sense, but cannot protect you from all the ugly stuff out there in the trading world. In times of extreme news/ events with a gap in the market, you might get the worst fill you could ever imagine with the brackets. I have not much of a better solution, the reality is, like...

Dear Matt, thank you very much for your input. So it seems there is not much potential left for eliminating/ minimising the risk. As both you and @truetype suggest, I will take a closer look now at hedging through an options trading account. The personal guarantee you mentioned that most FCMs...

Hi, I scalp very shortterm in the main index futures (FDAX, FESX, NQ, ES). Since I go for pretty small scalps, my position size usually gets somewhat large, relative to my account size. If I would loose control over a position during a heavy move, it could mean serious trouble for me. Loosing...

I see we talk the same language :D:thumbsup:

All those additional screens, all the extra technical equipment only makes sense once you really know what you are doing and start to trade like you are running a business. If you just want to try it out and see if it might be for you, I suggest you pick one actively traded market. I recommend...