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Yes, KOSDAQ150 is a good substitute. Made a couple trades today. Thank you

Because I want something to trade at 7pm EST. K200M is a good vehicle.

Did the CFTC ban Americans from trading this ? Interactive Brokers is saying there are now regulatory restrictions and I can't place a trade. But I can't find any information about this.

Right now I've had success with highly liquid stocks on the Nasdaq that I trade at the open of the New York session 9:30am Eastern. I generally only make one or two trades a session, sticking with the same stock. I just want a vehicle that I can repeat this process for the night sessions. I...

I prefer the 5 min chart. What matters to me in terms of time frame is that the spread for the vehicle is no more than 1/20th of the range for that time frame. For instance, if it's a stock and it has a 1 cent spread and it easily moves more than 20 cents in 5 minutes, then the 5min chart is...

I'm located in the US, and use Interactive Brokers. Looking for a trading vehicle that I can trade after midnight, eastern time. I've found that forex does not move enough, so that's out. Any suggestions? Exact symbols would be helpful if anyone has actual experience. I've tried to do...

You are not rewarding yourself adequately after successfully following your plan and are instead seeking pleasure from the dopamine rush of a winning trade. This is forcing you to pull the trigger since all you want is that rush, even if it comes after 5 losers. My suggestion, is that every time...

If IB does not forgive these negative balances while Oanda does they are basically telling people not to do business with them. This could have happened to anyone. Don't believe me ? What happens when Germany announces randomly that they're leaving the Euro and you just happen to be in a Euro...

Yeah, my preliminary calculations appear it be in line with what you're saying. I'm wondering if fx futures options are the only way to go, or will the spreads, slippage commissions on those make that unrealistic as a replacement for forex. I have a trading strategy that has positive expectancy...

Interesting. I found this too http://www.barchart.com/commodityfutures/Euro_FX_Futures/options/E6Z15?mode=d&view= Now need to figure out how this stuff translates into forex to get the cost of my example.

Lets say I want protect to myself from anything past a 50 pip move in a pair. For instance EURUSD is at around 1.1563 And say I wanted to buy 4 Lots 400K worth, but make sure I took no more losses past 1.1513. (This isn't an actual trade I'm going to do just an example) What vehicle should...

The only thing I can think of is the Chinese yuan, I believe has a peg with the U.S dollar. This currency seems to correlate highly with the Australian dollar. Whenever there is an announcement out of China, AUD.USD seems to bounce around. So I'm thinking that trading AUD.USD might be a problem...

I heard that Oanda honored stops that people had placed. Can anyone verify ? I'm with IB but I was not in a CHF pair. Yesterday may have changed forever the way I think about trading. There is literally nothing a person who just so happened to be on the wrong end of that trade could have done...

This is something I'll do some research on over the next couple weeks. Probably looking into the 2hr charts. I dislike having fewer trading opportunities, but I dislike losing money even more.

I am but I've looked up plenty of brokerages, including Dukascopy. The commissions are pretty much comparable everywhere I've seen with Interactive Brokers. You get half off it seems with very large trading volumes at both brokerages. If they gave that rate to everyone, I'd be golden.

I'm actually proud that I was able to achieve consistent profitability independent of commissions. I once couldn't even do that. It's easier to accept that I might be fundamentally prevented from success due to an unlevel playing field. Some getting a break on commissions that I don't, than due...

Will not be trading again until the first of the year, due to the usual lack of volatility in Forex in the last two weeks of December. But when I return in January, I am going to add one new rule to my strategy. If doesn't work I'm done with trading. Rule is this. Any trade that goes in my...

Up until yesterday, my answer to you would have been yes. I once did not have the discipline to follow through on winning trades, but I do now. But as my post earlier today shows, the problem with my strategy is commission costs. The game just puts you at a structural disadvantage that I'm not...

Thanks. Yes I am a U.S. citizen. In terms of entries, the strategy is in line with my original post. For exits, I let it run until I see one of two types of reversal patterns (or it hits my stop) When I get home, I could post a couple examples of these patterns.

Just as an update for those interested. I simply cannot overcome commission costs with this strategy. Over the past 7 days, I've earned about 8% net on trading alone. (The strategy I'm running is very similar to the one I described with the exception that I'll pull out of a winning trade on a...