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Well actually is 10000 that I think would be sufficient to trade 1 single contract. Is this a reasonable value to trade one or two contract? As I said before I do not plan to trade more than 1 contract at the begining. Thanks Joaquin

Hi, I am paper trading and I want to test with the same things I gonna use in my real account. What would be a good leverage? How much margin per contract? I do not plan to trade more than 1 contract at the begining. How about the risk? I won't hold position overnight. Trade for about 1...

Hi, I'm new so I'm not quite sure why I'm seeing so different prices between IB data and Kinetick data while paper trading ES mini sp 500. Someone has experienced the same thing, in some cases I see a difference of 2 point between IB and Kinetick. Someone know what is going on? I've heard...

Hi all, I have a margin account but can trade without leverage. Am I right? So, doesn't really matter if I have a margin account and I only trade with my funds without using leverage this will be the same as a cash account. Or I'm missing something. Sorry for the ignorance, but I think that...

Hi sorry for the one who already have seen this message in other forum, I wanted to move this message to this forum but I cant, so I had created a new one. I am new and I plan to start trading. I will to day trade stock fom SP500 which have an average volumen of 500000 shares per day or...

Good video, what a day for a lot of people. Lets supposed that I was long with 1000 shares at 50 per share at that time. I watch price action bar by bar, never leave the computer while I am trading. Trade with a very tide stop loos. I never will let me loose more than 0.5 per share. My...

Hi, I am new and I plan to start trading. I will to day trade stock fom SP500 which have an average volumen of 500000 shares per day or more. I have a paper account on IB and after some months I plan t move to a real account. I have a margin account. I plan to use up to 1:2 laverage...

I've started to use ninja trader with kinetick in order to paper trader. After a few months of paper trader I want to move to a live account. In order to do that I will have to choose a broker. Will be interactive broker a good option? What other options do you think that would be...

I will check out Forex, because of what I 've read I thought that the best option was e-mini S&P. Thanks.

Thanks to all, I have collected good information. My main concern was that if I open an account to trade e mini sp with a margin account of 5000 I own a debt for the rest of the value of the contract. Which is something that i do not like at all. Not sure about the amount but the 5000 was...

About the PDT, are guys saying that I cannot trade e mini SP with an account less than 25K? If I executes more than three day trades within 5 trading days my account will be flagged and frozen for about 90 days. A day is concider for example a day in which I do two trades or this count as two...

Atticus, you say that the risk is very low so I understand that a possiblity exist. So, let's continue with the example that is not real because i haven't done anything yet. I open an account, 5000 margin. Trade each day, close the position each day. Hold the position as long as the trend...

To hold the contract more than one session do you mean that when you buy an hold the position until next day? If so, I plan to close my position in the day. Yes I have read about margin call and for that reason I was a concern if I can finish with a debt of 60000 of so in the worst scenario...

Ok, are you saying that is not a way I can lose more than the margin that is requested to open the account? For example, I open the account with 5000. Something happened, does not matter if it is unrealistic or not to lose 100 points in one day. Hopefully the stop loss will avoid that. But...

Hi to all. I've been investigating and studying about day trading in emini futures. I do not understand what would be the worst scenario. I understand that I do not need the money of a full contract. Margin to enter is about 5000. The worst scenario would to loose 5000. Or to loose...