Recent content by rogue8

I'd rather listen to HMRC instead of some random spread betting blog: https://community.hmrc.gov.uk/forums/customerforums/sa/682baef7-72c4-ea11-bf21-00155d3b9236#707ead25-14c5-ea11-a812-000d3a7ed518 And of course...

If I had a large account, I'd start a Ltd company and trade futures. In the mean time, growing my small account, and until slippage starts being too much of a drag, I'll spread bet tax-free as a professional gambler rather than a professional trader. I won't be 'carrying on a trade', acting as a...

I've been looking everywhere for this. Do you know the name of the high court case, @Roberto? That'll give me something in case HMRC get funny with me. Thanks.

Thanks Roberto. Do you remember which case this was? I can't find it online. https://financeandtax.decisions.tribunals.gov.uk/Aspx/default.aspx doesn't work and there's nothing on http://taxandchancery_ut.decisions.tribunals.gov.uk/ that I could find. The ruling seems clear after reading the...

Thanks Jason. I'll see how I can get round the opening gap thing.

I think I see what's going on. I just needed to compare the charts and look at the CBOE intraday chart. Just by eye-balling them quickly, FXCM tracks the CME E-mini very closely but with the FXCM price offset roughly a few dollars higher. My mistake, the CBOE open corresponds with the FXCM...

Yeah moka. I'm just curious about the randomness with the Open price. I'll check the CME E-mini prices for reference (which also differs to the SPX since it's a different market place). I think my question should be, how is the SPX open calculated each day? I found a strategy that's been working...

Hi Jason. Thanks for the suggestion. However, I've compared the FXCM m30 SPX price data since 9th Dec 2015 with the Yahoo d1 data (which is the same as CBOE data). The Open price for the NY 9:30am opening is significantly variable (although becoming less variable over the course of the...

Hello Jason Rogers. I created an S&P strategy in Excel, but I used the daily Yahoo data which is too different from the data from my current broker, Oanda. I just opened an FXCM account and connected it to the TradingView chart. Is it possible to download the FXCM SPX data that I can load into...

Unfortunately, no references anywhere, diceboy. At least I couldn't find anything apart from the links posted above. It's more of a DIY job but as YouAreNotFree said, his one works! A critical factor is getting a low spread but Oanda's 50pips is good enough (since 2006 anyway). (Ignore my...

<lol> @afneil Andrew Neil Foreign Office sources say Merkel now thinks Greece will default. </lol> (21 minutes ago)

Euro's taking the pi*s - it just kept going up. Still short though with wide stops. Record net short interest in the COT... that's my confirmation bias for now (confirmation of useless hope and greed, that is). Dubious Greece (non-)deal will make it 'interesting'.

I take it by your little thumbs up self-portrait that it's going profitably well? Well done, man! This schizo Euro is freaking mental and doing my head in. A change of pace would do me good. Photo of me saying "cool" -------------------------->----------------------------->> " :cool: " . .

Oanda stops have to be at least 10pips away but it doesn't matter since I'm risking a certain amount based on a maximum stop level. You're better off with a loose stop unless you can somehow pick the exact top (I know I can't). The contrarian short trade doesn't mean that price can't go up...

Oh, hello. I'm not trading them. Yet (investing in bullion though). But have you come across the LBMA XAUUSD short AM, long PM fix strategy? Basically go short at 10:30am GMT, exit at 3:30pm GMT. Go long at this time (3:30), keep trade open overnight and exit at 10:30am). Rinse and repeat...