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CustomerService 4:46 PM (2 hours ago) to undisclosed recipients Crossland LLC is requiring all customers trading the precious metals, more specifically Gold and Silver, to be margined at 100% of initial for intraday trading. Current margin for Gold is $7040 and for Silver is $12375 If...

CustomerService 4:46 PM (2 hours ago) to undisclosed recipients Crossland LLC is requiring all customers trading the precious metals, more specifically Gold and Silver, to be margined at 100% of initial for intraday trading. Current margin for Gold is $7040 and for Silver is $12375 If...

I can't believe that this insanity tempts me but it seems that it does. I guess when I look at a 4 hour chart and see any instrument move from 146.50 down to 91.20 in fewer than 20 bars it gets my attention. I assume I can simply throw up a few hundred and trade the damn thing to get a feel...

Assuming you have a tested edge size becomes more a function of capital than anything else. If you have a million dollars liquid + an edge you are probably trading too small. If you entire net worth is tied up in a $1,000 account you probably are trading too large at even a single ES contract.

There is a huge difference between a portion of your account being uninsured -- something you understand in advance -- and it being commandeered.

That is simply inaccurate. In any given race any of the pools can give a small advantage over the other two as a function of the way the money comes in.

Mav, I think you did say exactly this: Very few handicappers bet on horses to win. They bet on horses to place or show.

Classic pic Stock.

Mav, no real handicapper goes in with a preconcieved notion of whether the win, place or show bet has the edge. Each of the pools is unique and segregated and as post time approaches they can calculate within a range where the advantage lies. Without the "order flow" into the individual...

I looked into it sometime back. Forget the details but the limitations made it a total waste of time. There was nothing of interest there.

There have been numerous questions as to whether this works for those with primarily futures trades. Not sure if anyone really knows how this will be handled by SPIC in all circumstances. Not trying to pretend I know the answers here or looking for a debate. Just noting this may not be as...

A bit of backup for this would go a long way to making your assertion credible.

But in Canada (or the US) there are no such depositors.

Leaving all the narratives aside this is what I most agree with. Narratives mostly cost the trader money. The proper price action read mostly makes him money.

Bravo!

Yes. Syria has changed the equation quite dramatically. The refugee problem -- particularly in Jordan -- has layered in a whole new level of instability. It is bad enough that Syria itself is likely to mirror Lebanon soon with a multi-faction long term civil war but if Jordan falls as well...

But the here and now needs to take into account the Middle East. We may not need oil from that perilous region ten years from now but right now we continue to need it. That's why there is a constant risk premuim built into the game. If that premuim disapates we could see $75 crude pretty quick.

I thought every US client got paid out 100%. Is that not the case?

I don't think this conversation will prove fruitful unless everyone specifies the time frame they are speaking of.