Recent content by canderwood

I think you are on the right track when you mentioned you need to tighten up on the money management. Within your trading plan you should have set rules not only round risk management but money management as well. Mine for example has daily weekly and monthly limits for losses so if I lose 3R in...

You would be well placed for the future if you start to develop your own trade ideas and watchlists. Personally I started out by monitoring and trading on a few sectors that interested me and got to know them, the stocks in them and the factors that influence them really well. These sectors and...

Ive had an account with them since last November and have had no issues at all. I moved across as I know a couple of brokers on their dealing desk reasonably well and they know me and how I trade, which helps a lot when you cant be watching screens all the time. Platform is white labelled...

I use a Saxo account and yes they allow you to use a percentage of your equity holdings as collateral for CFD's, Forex and Futures market trading. I dont know if they have differing rates depending on account type or MFID but they allow me 75% on FT100 stocks and 50% on FT250 stocks You do...

Hi Barneydunn, I only trade daily charts these days, mainly because for me its more reliable, suits my current lifestyle and keeps me in the market longer. I mainly trade FT 100 equities, the occasional FT 250 stock and if I'm looking to hedge my investment portfolio I'll take an index...