Recent content by Yuppie13

Hi, Don't worry. You would have anyway not been able to get your money out from Plus500. They have been under FCA investigation for violating AML rules. Bottom line: I opened an account there, sent documents 3 months ago and won't get any answer. Seems they have bigger problems than handling...

Hi guys, Eegozi thanks for providing the file, I ran a simulation with 1000 trades each and 100 iterations and it looks quite promising. In terms of commissions I use zero as all trades are spreadbets and the spread (i.e. Only, implicit commssion which is itself higher already than if I had...

Hi, @eegozi: would you be able to send me the file you use for MC Sim by PM / email or post it on Sribd ? This would really help me as my file currently seems not only too simple but also misleading. I will get a copy of Supertrader, it sounds very useful. Cheers and thanks, Yuppie

Hi, I am looking for the Spreadbetting Provider who offers guaranteed STOPS on Forex with the lowest distance possible. Oddly, my brokers IG and Worldspreads have very wide distances for Forex (100 or 75 pips on every pair) while offering distances as low as 2.5 points for Gold (guaranteed)...

Hi guys, Thanks for the input. I will come back with some more detailed comments shortly. The trades are real, Spreadbets since the start of 2011, so the commission (Spread) is already included. I mainly trade intraday about 10 trades / day. Strategy is purely discretionary, trend-following and...

Hello Guys, Thanks first for all the valuable input here, special thanks to Fastcar for the link and explanation and eegozi for continuing the thread. I was looking at the link Fastcar posted and experimented a little bit. I agree that the plain 5% equity per trade was wrong and will...

Hello Guys, Thanks for finally making this thread alive! I am currently busy but hope to be able to come back with some input over the weekend, including posting the excel spreadsheet which I use for my MC Sim. It's quite an important topic, as my trading also has progressed quite well from...

hi bedsit, My impressions are quite versatile. It really depends on the assests you trade. I mainly trade metals, oil and european indices. I trade at Worldspreads, IG, Citiindex and Capitalspreads. IG are most nasty on stops, it seems they have much more quotes than other SB companies, even...

Worldspreads has a good lot of dodgy shares and you can short anything. They have Sino Forest for example (German listing). What company is AssetCo ?

Git used now to a different site and working well. Just not good for quick trades, but position trading works fine. Guess its a mentality thing, you need to get used to the charts of the site, especially, and find out how far you put the stops away from the support levels. Some SB get much less...

By the way, these "oddities" ironically worked in my favour: I could close my trade at a better price than market, as the trade went against me. This trade was as well probably the biggest position I ever run with them... However, if it went my way I would have not been able to close it at a...

Hi, Thanks for the answer. Just WHY do they have different prices ? Is it really that they hedge like bookies, balancing the book ? Theoretically, you can take advantage of this however, the question is WHEN they start to go closer to the real index value again. I will keep you updated if I...

I spottet two competely different price for the same index at 2 Spread betting companies (regular market hours). The funny thing is the spread went in both directions and at some point the prices actually matched. The spread was up to 0.2% of the index value. Any reason for this ? Why would they...

Well they can't include the cash held on behalf of the clients in their accounts. This would be liabilities. There is a footnote regarding this. Probably its still left from the IPO. Was hypothetically regarding the suspension of marketing activities. Just shows that they are actually quite...

My winnings ;-) By the way the stock looks actually quite cheap, below book value. Seem to be able to still expand with the cash on their books. They blew up their marketing spend 5-fold to 3.5m and only make a little loss, not so bad at all. Business is quite riskless, actually. If they do...