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Guys, long time no trade (or post). On Friday, I got sucked into a short at a dreadful entry point 8885 (must address that weakness to get in too early)...I only intended being in for 15-30mins, but it was like a great white its teeth in me & wouldn't let me go....just shaking me about under...

Wow, this thread is a little quiet nowadays. I haven't been active on here of late but there was once a time just a few months ago when you'd see scores of posts each day ....the last post is 9.04am today! (and this on a day when the S&P is down a fair old whack - normally would cause a lot of...

Me too...IG try to violate my @rse at every opportunity. I can only imagine their so called price improvement is when they skew their prices...(ie most of the time & to suit themselves), there'll be some on one side of the trade that get a slightly improved price...it has always been the...

Probably just the S&P mini - thanks for that. That wasn't explained by their Customer Services when we were talking about it - they simply said "if you're a daytrader you must deposit $25,000", so I asked what their definition of a daytrader was, they said "It's not our defintion, but the US...

Thanks guys...being unfeasibly tight, I'll go the BACS route! I think my confusion came becuase I was loathe to complete the wire details until I could be sure of the impact (still waiting of funds to clear from a share sale in my bank)...however having being reassured & just done that bit, all...

Ok thanks, the mist is clearing (can't be sure but perhaps I went in via your .com site rather than the .co.uk site ....would it have been clearer if I'd used .co.uk?!) Anyway, I think I have all the answers for now - just one last comment though .....for a company that must know that its...

Thanks for the info. IMHO, your website is *way* too US centric for us Brits...can't you convince your US HQ to at least have a UK offshoot website, (ie a site which makes us feel less like illegal aliens?) Still not sure I understand about the depositing options! If I select the 'wire...

Having just gone through their somewhat lengthy & labourious 'new online account' application process, I'm at the point where I need to deposit some spondoolies with them. All their options to deposit the green stuff appear to suck...the only applicable one for us Brits being a wire transfer...

The problem with this oft heard "the trend is your friend", is he's not that loyal...ie he can (will?) turn on a dime & when he does, he'll likely be your worst enemy. Think about it...even a swift 10% correction only takes say the DAX down to 7,100...ie still above the 7k figure that folks...

Gotta love those big mkt players... NFP weak = more chance of rate cut, market to go up. NFP strong = economy doing well, market to go up. As it goes the NFPs were stronger than expected...guess what - market has gone up!

Just what is it with the Dax?! Anyone care to suggest why it's been the strongest indice of all the global developed countries....ie what makes the companies contained within it so seemingly bulletproof to any hint of a correction? You'd think it ought to track the Dow more or less on a...

1,300 S&P points?! Now there's an S&P long I'd like to have caught! :cheesy:

Ok, so it's a Dow thread....but fwiw just shorted DAX @7818 (cash). Would be quite comfortable entering at this level, except you watch the CSI 300 go & bounce back tonight which will simply pour fuel on an already out of control fire first thing in the morning. As is so often, these mkts...

All I can think is...

Everyone raves about IB, but what are the monthly costs involved to say have a dma feed for the s&p future?