Recent content by lionfly

Yesterday on US 11am, the Dow Jones dropped 100 points within a blink, just a flash, the number changed from more than 8200 to 8080. I wonder if the index is calcuated based on the 30 companies prices, will the selling pressue push the index down 100 points within 0.5 second? Where is the...

Yesterday the US passed the expected plan, DJ dropped nearly 400 points. Is it because the plan is not good, useless, only passed with marginal majority? If the plann is not good for economy, as indicated by market drop, why does US goverment think it is useful and want to implement it? If it...

Everyone and every book strongly command the must of setting stop-loss, but not set limit to "allow profit run". However, I find too many times when I set stop-loss (FTSE 30 points, DJ 50 points), the stop-loss is triggered, then the index goes in favour of my direction again. If the stop-loss...

I just noticed that the CMC price for Dow Jones are always nearly 20 points lower, compared with the price on finance.google.co.uk. Do you find this problem of CMC? Do they manipulate market price?

I found it is quite difficult to get more than average 20 points/day profit from FTSE by intra-day trades. What is your performance/day on average roughly? However, with hindsight, it seems to me that if i am confident enough to leave the position overnight, for 1-2 nights, normally 3 days will...

Hi there, I have a newbie question: Is FTSE calculated by the share price of those 100 companies? If so, then when the UK market is closed, why the DJIA movement moves FTSE in the same strength? Can US money buy/sell UK FTSE companies shares when Uk market is closed? Otherwise, how is FTSE...

CMC does not provide the facility of setting Trailing Stop-Loss order. I think the Trailing Stop-Loss order facility is a very useful tool, especially when you are not watching screen. Anyone knows which companies provide the Trailing Stop-Loss facility please?

I read a post in this forum that a guy set 2 points for FTSE, and I don't know how can this work, as FTSE will change 10 points in seconds. I normally set stop-loss points for FTSE is 30, for DOW is 80, to allow around 1% shaking wave, but wonder how you guys set yours? Do you always set a...

I know in theory the trailing order should change along with the price movement, but now sure how. Does the system remember the lowest or highest point in the recent history? e.g. if sell current point 1000, set trailing stop at 100 point allowance, i.e. buy back at 1100. then the point move to...

GFT is also a big player, why not in the poll ? GFT and CapitalSpreads both provide 1 point spread for FTSE, CMC is 2 points spreads for FTSE. I am considering to goto GFT or CapitalSpreads, but not sure about their Web Platform. I can only trade on Web Platform. I tried the GFT's demo account...