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Your volume of trades is probably much higher than mine. I've done well on trading the FTSE, but I'm now going to move more to the Dow, we'll see how that goes

Hi dentist007. What stop size are you using? I have a quite a wide 50pt one, but probably work on longer time frames to you.

Haha, I can guarantee you I'm not a broker. Fool

Hi, PHAU is a physically backed gold ETF denominated in USD and PHGP is the same product except it's denominated is GBP. Therefore, can anyone explain why PHGP underperforms PHAU? For instance, PHAU is up 30% year on year whereas PHGP is up 20%. Sterling is acutally stronger against the USD...

Did you enter with a buy stop order to try and catch the move or did you place a buy limit order? I find that if you place limit orders price continues to go against you until you are stopped out. If you place stop/market orders price usually goes in you favour, but then reverses very quickly...

I find it difficult to place a buy order above the previous days close because you often get filled over night due to a widened spread. Also I don't know if the risk reward is there. I'm new to this, so I don't know if thats correct

+ what sort of stop?

Hey Tom, what sort of price would you put a buy order in for tomorrow?

Naz, with all due respect, this is not a place to be advertising your course or whatever you are selling. What you are claiming is complete hogwash. Please take it elsewhere.

So how much is this service your kindly providing?

I can't believe CMC is still in business, judging by the experiences of many traders. For this reason, I would never go near them.

I would chose Infinity personally, only because with Transact you must do a min of 300+ contracts per month. What is this SIPC and FIDC?

That's not the problem for me. If u r using the AT platform, funds must be in usd or euro. Therefore, I'll need to convert my gbp. When it comes to withdrawing funds I could have lost a load on currency fluctuations before trading even takes place.

A good platform or to be avoided? I've heard many traders say its poor when used in conjunction with PATS. Apparently the quotes update very slowly compared with other data feeds such as Transact or ZenFire. I've also heard the quotes are not that reliable because they are held on some remote...