Recent content by cando22

Hi all, This maybe a dumb question but as i understand it interactive brokers european account holders have their accounts held by citigroup gmbh. Worrying about a black swan type incident,if citi went bust or insolvent or whatever, what happens to your IB trading account funds held by...

I think that tune was called "THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HUMM"!:whistling Words like AVOID and PLAGUE come to mind.:thumbsdow:thumbsdow

Yea i got a rebate of 500 minus 170 for the points that the system supposedly earned:thumbsdow. Obviously didnt include the minus 165 points which left me high and dry monday.:mad:

It appears that their site has also been dismantled. I think its a case of ''if it looks too good to be true then it probably is !!'' I dont think that the published results of the system were being achieved.not on my end anyway:frown:

Dowteq is no more :mad: Got an e mail saying due to lack of membership that they are shutting up shop:thumbsdow So it would seem that myself and other subscribers were left in a terrible losing trade all day while these guys wound up the operation behind the scenes,now i know why there was...

They issued a buy at 14:33 today and still in it now, currently down 200 points:eek: Captain i think we'll need a bigger boat:confused:

Hi matt, yea fri was a very good day, +163 for me:thumbsup::thumbsup:

A very good day today, too early to tell but i hope to eat my words! Ive still yet to match published results though.

Hi Bash, Im gonna give it the month,some of the signals that come in,ya just know that their not gonna work. You get a signal, it goes against you,then it goes in your favour,then you get a signal to reverse your position but the market keeps going in the orignal direction, you lose all the...

Hi All, Ive been using this service for two weeks now and i want to issue a serious wealth warning to this service. two weeks is not long enough to evaluate a system but what worries me is that results on their website say that they are up 192 points so far this month. Ive been trading YM...

HI NINE, Thanks for the advice,but am i not leaving myself open to currency exchange risks by having loads of loose ends hanging around so to speak.

HI ALL, i just opened a euro account with IB,im trading us equities and i was under the impression that when a trade was closed the profit or loss was automatically changed into the base currency, so imagine my surprise and horror when i discovered today that i was unknowingly holding a...

HI paul, thanks for the advice, ive been spread betting for the last four years.ive been on the receiving end of a lot of their colourful practices over that time and tbh have had my fill of them. Id rather stump up the margin with IB than have to deal with the mad cost and carry on with the...

margin requirements HI ALL, Im hoping someone could help answer this questions for me, 1. how much margin would i require in a standard margin account to trade 2000 shares of IBM both long and short and sometimes held overnight. 2. Is there more risk in using a limit order instead of a...

HI TIMSK, thanks for the encouragment, I havent made the jump yet although i did open the account i havent funded it yet,im still spread betting. ive done the sums and i know ill be better off da, ive become consistant in my trading and my results show it,im straining at the leash to go for it...