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As expected nothing much happening today because of 2 bank-holidays. I am taking the opportunity to put in a buy stop in eurjpy at 122.81 with a stop at 122.14 and a target of 123.48 (67 pips R:R, or 3%).

I use stochastics for context, it's pointing to oversold. No guarantee that I win on this individual trade but the odds are good.

I have to put my cutoff point somewhere: to protect my capital and to protect my profits. I arbitrarily put it at 15%. I just hope it won't come to that.

On friday I opened a long gbp/usd position @1.2712 because of a morning star on the daily. My target is 1.2819, my stop is at the low of two days ago.

This swingtrading journal will only be trading eur/usd, gbp/usd, gbp/jpy, eur/jpy and xau/usd. I will be risking 3% per trade for a reward of 3%. I will close my account if I ever make a drawdown of 15% of the highwater mark. I basically use four setups and will have my trades open at most for 4...

It's not IB wanting the big margin on GBP futures, it's the exchange .... seems like your best option though if you ask me

I am not a subscriber to WSJ so this post is worthless to me ...

it"s not a combo order so you can't link them together as a combo order.

the reason one is buying a put can be either an outright short directional trade or a volatility trade which is non directional.

Did it ever occur to you that it was Easter monday ?

As a former market maker in options I only can applaude this banning of binary options. The odds aren't anything like plain vanilla options and even there it's allready hard enough to make money with directional plays.

A MM needs an edge to take an order so he won"t be trading at theoretical midprice unless under the exceptional circumstances his book is too big in some way somehow. But don't count on this last thing to happen ....

In 2014 there weren't Bitcoin futures ...

you should be contacting IB not ask people here ...

so what's the point if you don't know who is the seller or the buyer of the contracts ... or if it's part of a combo ...seem like a big waste of time without added value ...

my suggestion would be to keep your dollars and NOT invest in the sharade of crypto's ...

selling puts is dangerous way to be living and not money for free in a bull market ... if this turns again you might be in for big trouble

I really doubt anyone is going to give their edge away for free just like that ...

finally someone said it clear ... the OP is a troll

metatrader4 and Oanda might give you some data for free