started trading a couple of months ago, mainly fx , ftse and wall st. I am floundering.
Trading only on trends and bits of news. Has anyone got any advice to make my trading more scientific, more succssful?
Mike
Hi, Can someone help me on how to close a trade on Alpari MetaTrader? It opens a new trade whenever I want to close a previous trade on the same pair. Example on USD/JYP, I buy then to close the trade I sell. But the metatrader opens two trades, 1- buy and 2- sell.
Expecting your response soon.
A question about options trading. I have had some experience with writing covered calls on shares I already own and/or selling puts on shares I wouldn't mind owning. I was recently burned by this when I sold a put and the underlying tanked completely and I was left holding the bag, paying a great sum to either buy the shares (at a great deal more than market) or buy back the put option. My own fault... bad call.
Just wondering... what's the best way to enact a Stop Loss on this type of strategy? I could look at buying a put at next lower strike or another month out (expiry). Is there a better way, as this tends to eat up all the premium I received for selling the put in the first place?
I don't know the mechanics, but perhaps placing a 'conditional' put purchase in place, triggering on the underlying stock reaching a pre-determined value? Anyone with some options trading experience out there have some ideas to offer?
Many thanks,
Kevin
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Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knew how spread betting compines hedge their exposure to bets on the FTSE 100 cash daily rolling bets? I can see how they can use the Futures market to hedge against trhe FTSE 100 Daily Futures bets but the cash bets I can't work out.
Thanks