Disliked{quote} if you are using leverage then what do you think you are paying for the privilege? would you open a business that lends money to people and not charge them for the service? get realIgnored
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Disliked{quote} if you are using leverage then what do you think you are paying for the privilege? would you open a business that lends money to people and not charge them for the service? get realIgnored
Disliked{quote} why would you willingly pay higher swaps in 'forex' when futures offer you everything without any hidden costs? Either you're not aware of it or haven't made it to the big leagues of futures trading.Ignored
Disliked{quote} compare the contango/backwardation in futures with the swaps charged by the fake market brokers. Then you’ll realize how much they’ve been shafting the lazy/poor retail gambler. But I guess in a losing game, the retail gambler will just lose faster so it doesn’t make a difference at the end of the dayIgnored
Disliked{quote} What leverage do you have while trading futures? That is the answer, swaps — is the cost of leverage.Ignored
Disliked{quote} i didn’t get you, do you mean there’s no leverage in futures as opposed to ‘forex’? there’s no cost of leverage in futures. It’s up to the broker to manage risk and cut position before account goes negative, that’s allIgnored
Disliked...DislikedYour idea is clear for me — if you trade bad, size of costs has no matter. No, that's not my idea (but it is true). My point is that if you trade well, cost does not matter. Consider the posts on my journal on August 9 describing my trades in the G$. I captured about 100 pips that morning in 3 trades, with total spreads/cost of approximately 6 pips among the 3 trades (my broker was averaging 1.5 pips spread that morning). My point is this: if you are not seeing and trading for significantly greater pips than the spreadIgnoredIgnored
DislikedIf we captured a sample of 10.000 random players with his strategies, this strategies would have a roughly 50% winners because they are random..(we are mostly random traders in the long term) So, the expected net worth with no transaction costs are $0.Ignored
DislikedIf all the retail forex accounts funds are added up at the beginning of any period and added up at the end of any period. The total amount of funds will be down by the amount of the transaction cost for the period. Over time this aggregate retail forex account gets eaten up 100% by transaction costs. I will let you ponder the implications.Ignored
DislikedIf all the retail forex accounts funds are added up at the beginning of any period and added up at the end of any period. The total amount of funds will be down by the amount of the transaction cost for the period. Over time this aggregate retail forex account gets eaten up 100% by transaction costs. I will let you ponder the implications.Ignored
Disliked{quote} if you take a trade and your stop gets hit that isn't a a transaction cost its a loss. just under 80 percent of retail traders lose because they don't know what they are doing. it has nothing to do with transaction costs.Ignored