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What's your trading frequency? I assume you don't hold that kind of exposure for long. The reason I'm asking is because macro factors like those you mention will take a while to play out, some longer than others. How long have you been trading with these parameters? I know that kind of leverage...

After looking around since yesterday, I think this is the source material:

Is there any news and/or source link? Been in the car the entire day and haven't been following media updates. Very interesting if true. I suspect it is, can be summarized as: modern wars cost a lot of money and Russia is far from a superpower these days.

Same sense of reaction here: My Finnish grandpa fought invading Russians in WW2, little did I expect the risk of seeing something similar in my lifetime...

1:100 => go broke if you by chance 10x-100x your account using this (in all likelihood you will simply hit zero soon though), retain same leverage, and then lose a couple of hundred percent on a gap and now owe your broker reasonably big money. 1:10 for forex is reasonably "safe" (unless you...

IMO probability has been above 50% for a few weeks and closer to 100% the past week. But way too many people are indirectly sourcing their news from state Russian propaganda.

In shit CFD platforms maybe. But consider this, regular market participants might be unknowingly do that as well. If you develop and then act according to a rule: Certain price conditions => A certain large enough mean return over a particular hold duration => Go long/short, i.e. same sign as...

lol @ poll result

IMO success is proportional to workEthic * intelligence * exp(rand())

About ten years ago at least, the JVM was massively better than .NET at garbage collection (as in, taking more to completely overpower a heavily threaded application with GC stalls). I am less confident about nowadays simply because I haven't been writing these kinds of applications lately, and...

Not news to anyone who's paying attention. For a trader or investor, a bigger practical issue with ZH is they have a very clear 'disaster' bias and make it super scary to ever be long. So I don't read ZH unless specifically linked there.

I guess the issue is that limit orders will stay around in the market books, and nothing prevents them from being filled in the same instant before IB had a chance to react. Consider e.g. a very sharp move in index. I haven't used IB deep enough to know whether they have a solution to this...

Anyone surprised? The only thing that stands out to me is that Cent chose to stop their platform, and then just half of it. If pending legal consequences was a factor at all, that would be odd. Anyone who follows this space feel free to fill in the blanks.

Aware of this term but I never use it. It is a bad term because it evokes the notion that trading during the first hour of day has less competition. Obviously, there's a large number of specialized professionals/entities that trade the opening hour precisely because there are comparatively big...

When it comes to E2T and friends: How could these firms make sure some guys don't just pass randomly? They can't. In fact, it's highly likely that the vast majority of their applicants trade random, but a few will pass by chance. Similarly, in backtesting you can test as many randomly generated...

To be honest the bots are in full swing on this thread...

Np, I guess my joke wasn't funny in the right way if one doesn't personally know my mother (who kept her money in a savings account all her life, in modern era at 0% interest).

Ouch, having a bad day? FWIW my comment wasn't aimed at you.

TBH I wouldn't listen to my mother's financial advice. :-)

Sorry, was in a rush, ended up looking stupid by dropping a K... Nonetheless, STARK was really funny so let's hope it happens. :-)