Recent content by Silent.Trader

Sure, if you can provide some sort of collateral and/or are able to provide other securities (e.g. a secure future income) there should be no problem. It of course also depends on the price, type and location of the property and your personal situation. Basicly, if you're good for the money...

Excessive of course ain't good, but there's no reason not to prefer low margins. When trading properly you need to put up at least enough money in the account to cover the margin AND an adverse movement till your stop. The higher the margin the more you have to put up to make the trade. Whether...

Well... there are sites providing Technical analysis for free. Trouble with these is that more often than not, the quality is (extremely) poor. Buying TA is possible, but again, quality is doubtfull. Specially if you take a cheap retail oriented provider. With only 1500$ to invest, there 's no...

Sorry, but I don't understand this. In my perception what you say in your first sentence is that transaction costs (commisions and slippage) is large compared to prospective profits if you take on more than one position. I think that is exactly what undercapitalisation is. You may solve this by...

It pretty much depends on the system, type of positions, the performance and of course the correlation of the positions. If the performance of the system indeed strongly decreases with the number of positions (sounds odd to me) also risk/return is important. There's nothing wrong with using...

I understood that the cut off levels can be choosen:) The way you explained it suggests to me they are choosen randomly. I find it hard to believe, I tend to say there should be a relationship between volatility and the cut off levels choosen. The 30 and 100 pips wouldn't fit an issue that moves...

Thanks for the explanation! To me however the line color doesn't seem to change at the same level. Do I misunderstand the above or is it merely a glitch in the graph? What is the motivation to choose 100 and 30 as cut off levels? grtnx Wilco

Sorry if this is a silly question, but I'm not familiar with Bollinger Knock out.... Am I correct if I conclude that the Bollinger knock-out at the chart is the volatility (width of bollingerbands) with a MA of this volatility? What exactly is the criteria to make the line black or green? What...

I'ld say that it could be both. Trends may drive fundamentals, fundamentals may drive trends. I believe however that fundamentals nor technicals drive the price. At least if we're talking traders. The price is essentially driven by supply and demand. Not supply and demand from traders, but of...

Thank you!

Hello, Can some-one please provide me with a site where I can find free option quotes for the UK market? EOD bid/ask quotes will suffice. For the time being I'm primarily interested in IV figures for Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland. TIA Wilco

I think you better relay this question to your broker. The policy may differ from broker to broker. It may also differ with the type of account you have. grtnx Wilco

Are you sure about this? I'm pretty sure that many conspiracy theorists do have hidden agenda's and keep secrets. Many do not want to uncover the truth, but want to create doubt and uncertainty. Many conspiray theorists want to create a basis for their own rise or are just puppets of some of the...

I don't think this is a very sensible approach. You may well assume that the company offering these guaranteed stops will make a bit of money out of it. As such guaranteed stops are too expensive and you'll loose out on them. Basicly it's, as Zeppo stated, a matter of personal preference. Where...

Sony is a firm in Japan.... and Honda too!