This is exactly that I did. Used leverage to my advantage, not to increase a risk. I used 20% of my deposit and rest of money stayed in bank account. Worked very well.

Wanna invest $100K need broker

What do you guys expect? No slippage during the news? Get back to reality and stop scalping volatility events with high leverage. Its not going to work for you anyway.

Lowest trading costs broker (min deposit under 10k)?

As US citizen you have no options. If you don't want to trade FX with shady offshore brokers - start e-micro. 100:1 leverage and if it's still not enough - with weekly options on some liquid FX ETFs you can push leverage even further.

AMP Futures Offers MT5 For Futures Trading

Good for you. But we talking here about over-leveraged trader going into major event. Period. If trade would go opposite way - this fella would be here crying that scam broker didn't protected his stop loss and asking to deposit 7000 euros or ...

Broker is real regulated SCAM!

So you left opened, over-leveraged positions in IT40 into a weekend during Italian referendum and now you complaining about consequences?

Broker is real regulated SCAM!

14:53 not very common time for a news.

An example of how to burn accounts

They don't need to hedge anything too much. Look and Oanda's, FXCM's, Dukas's and others sentiment charts. Euro dropping like a stone, but majority of clients long. Easy and free money. Fools and their money not working very well together.

FXCM Discussion

For large accounts - trade currency futures. Regulated brokers, centralized market and leverage 1:100. If need - it's possible to increase leverage even more through options.

Need US broker for a large account

You probably already know the answer, just afraid to admit even to yourself - Tickmill

Tickmill UK

As a marketing specialist you're downgraded to -BBB (junk)

FXCL Discussion

There is no such thing as guaranteed stop loss. Read their Terms&Conditions - usually it's during normal market conditions only. During black swan event - business as usual - blown accounts and huge losses. Don't count on this. Low leverage is a key ...

Black Swan - Are you prepared?

I remember that issue. They send couple of emails staying that there are some issues with MT4. I tried MT4 that time and it was lagging a little bit. Webtrader and MC was fine. As they offering MT4 as additional tool and aiming at more capitalized ...

Darwinex users, how's it going?

You won't get an answer to your question here, as this forum full of people that managing $100 and not $20Billion. Judging on on your post it makes no sense to use additional middleman to do basic conversion at such scale. Unless there is good ...

Forex Hedge Funds and Currency Exchange

Doesn't exist.

Broker with deposit / withdraw from paypal?

In my opinion there are 2 possible reasons why all this happening: a) some idiot with initiative just started with CFTC or b0 (more realistic version) US retail FX business is shared between few brokers only, so if to drive that amount of customers ...

Breaking News: CFTC charges FXCM with undercapitalization

Every single NDD broker will ad markup on spread to make money.

Broker for USA traders

All that happens because almost everybody concentrating on packaging but not on a content. If I'll say that I'm richest man in a world and I'm making hundreds of millions trading with MT - would you believe? No. But when some nonameforexbroker.com ...

The search for a good broker

In my opinion these established and regulated UK and Cyprus brokers can't afford to operate in US due to CFTC net capital requirements. Otherwise they would do that. There is almost no competition in retail FX market in US. Such lucrative market ...

Broker for USA traders

Because some small bucket shops taking a chance accepting US citizens. When broker wants to deal with US clients - they need to be registered with CFTC and NFA and have 20mil. net capital. For most bucket shops even 10K could be a big challenge. ...

Broker for USA traders