Recent content by bendlikon

I see your points. Thanks a lot for the insight.

Hi luckyd1976, Two things on your above statement I don't understand. I hope you can elaborate. 1) Why is your Risk Reward 9/1 (I assume $5/$0.55) rather than 8/1 ( ($5-$0.55)/$.55 ). Isn't your risk limited to $4.45 since you get the $0.55 in any case? 2) Why would you say a risk reward of...

The service a private banks offers you comes at a cost. If you ask UBS to buy you UK stocks for £50,000 they will charge you 80 times more than the £6 IB charges (if you haven’t negotiated better terms with them). In addition, they charge you annual account administration fees of between 0.1%...

Interactive Brokers (IB) is a deep discount broker, not a lot of hand-holding there. However, their rates and worldwide market access make more than up for this in my opinion. There are not many countries that impose stamp duties. I am aware that if you trade non-Swiss stocks/ETFs with a Swiss...

For cheap commissions I would look at Interactive Brokers (interactivebrokers.co.uk or interactivebrokers.com). I believe they charge 6£ flat up to a trade value of 50,000£. I have no idea how your offshore requirements are, but I would think you could have your account in the US rather than the...

It depends on the graphic card of your laptop. There is a tool you can download at matrox.com that checks the maximum resolution your laptop can handle. In my case I can manage 2560x1024 over my two 19" standard screens.

I use the Matrox DualHead2Go Digital to add two 19inch screens to my laptop screen (extended desktop). It's a great product. I actually use the two additional screens for both my laptops using an KVM switch.

I get 5 bid levels and 5 ask levels on futures using IB