Oh, I agree there, though that's less a problem with straight IQ and more so of human nature tied with ego. Bright people on this forum will come off like they grew up around lead painted walls since they'll have too much of an ego to back down from ...

The Trader Behind the Trade™

Yes, I've demo'd them a few times. They do appear to be better priced but the edge is still in the MM's hands and you're not given the tools needed to compete on the MM's level. I've also done analysis on their binaries to plot out premium decay for ...

Nadex Forex Bull Spreads

Just in case you think I'm pulling this out of my butt, here's a few comments by the editor of an industry news source (broker focused, not client focused) on binaries in response to a few people asking about their odds: image Edit! now with ...

Nadex Forex Bull Spreads

I've been meaning to reply to this post for a while now but just didn't find the time til now (bored at work, flat and not much to do.) Ok, so you're not locked in, I'd kinda expect that out of any "trading" instrument. What's important though is ...

Nadex Forex Bull Spreads

Volatility has been lower for most pairs (and most world markets for that matter) for a while now. Christ, just look at the VIX: image Makes me wish I was more into options trading, buyers market right now on volatility premium. As for GBP ...

What is wrong with the GBP pairs? Much lower volatility since last year

I really don't think this kinda IQ test should be taken seriously.. it's too basic (not in the 'easy' sense, but in what types of intelligence it measures...for instance, the Mensa test puts way more emphasis on spatial cognition while this one only ...

The Trader Behind the Trade™

PS. Love it when the LPs and MMs fight it out for order flow.. undercutting each other til the spread goes near 0. image Tells me someone on the LP side knows something and wants to add or remove as much risk as possible.. seeing what usually is a ...

AUDNZD

Such a beating this month for AUD/NZD.. really wants to test that daily support without giving up the downtrend-line resistance 150 pips above this point. Either a really clean pattern or we're ready for some fireworks to be set off. Til then, I'm ...

AUDNZD

This. Huge part of emotional intelligence / trading psychology is identifying when you're not in a state to make good execution decisions and limit yourself accordingly. This is also a required skill if you want any long term success with ...

C-12's Supply, Demand and PA thread

I like to count "screen time". A year of trading experience means entirely different things between someone who reviews charts for a few hours a week to swing trade vs someone who's actively trading 8+ hours a day.

How do you count your trading experience?

Bingo. There's always the few cases of evil brokers being scammy, but most of the trading environment we think is silly is caused by people who'd do anything to scam a few bucks out of a broker. Atop of that, despite a few people bringing up the ...

Any broker allows this type of trading?

Be prepared for some joyful confessions then The OP was asking about USD vs EUR based accounts. He lives in Denmark, and the Danish Krone has a peg with the Euro (according to OP, I didn't look this up myself.) In the past OP kept accounts in ...

Account in USD or EUR

Christ no... :/ You just doubled the currency risk by doing that, not hedged it. If you wanted to keep the account in AUD as opposed to Euro, you'd be paying a cost of carry to hedge it back to Euros (LONG EUR/AUD. As you would be selling the AUD in ...

Account in USD or EUR

Changing the base currency of your account means you'll have to pay attention to how that might affect your tick value and P/L in a trade, yes: If you put on 1 standard lot of EUR/USD, you're trading 100k Euros for XX USD (depending on the exchange ...

Account in USD or EUR

Sounds like Euro is your best bet..

Account in USD or EUR

... plus, it doesn't make too much sense that they'd close an account over it. More likely--if the interest rate difference even took place--they'd just correct the difference.. leaving it at that.

Pepperstone Forex

I highly doubt they'll let you withdrawal the profits when you have another account with a negative balance. You will still owe the difference. Especially with that broker since they've been known to act first in their own interest. Again, who do ...

Any broker allows this type of trading?

... really? What do you think happens to stocks when mass inflation kicks in? The companies don't lose value just because the dollar does. Being in the stock market is an inflation hedge. Mind you, it's also pure market risk which might negate any ...

Why trade in USD on NYSE & NASDAQ if USD is going to be worthless soon?

So you are asking if they'd allow you to steal from them? Probably not. The broker can't close out your losing trade til they market is open. The opening market price will be the price that trade is closed at, regardless of what stop out level you ...

Any broker allows this type of trading?

So for clearing, even interactive brokers charges 1/5th of your rate, and that's clearing retail: url (look for the US clearing section.) $0.0002 per share, vs your $0.001 cost. On 100 shares, that's 2 pennies vs 10. This is important since the ...

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