Recent content by craigd

It is not a question of slippage due to price movement, you are correct that is a natural cost of doing business. You have assumed from the few words I wrote, that I have a limited understanding of the markets. This may or may not be true but I do know one thing, that the friend of mine sat...

where the slippage occured, Dax and Eurostoxx, could have sent a courier pidgeon and got filled quicker. still you live and learn. Craig

Well thats the final Straw, GOOOOD BYE IB. Slippage has cost me too much money, are they interested in the fact that time from execution on their platform to fill is measured in seconds not fractions of second, NO! they aren't. (Estimated 2500 Euro's) customer service just don't care. Gonna...

I would have thought that would also be the case but alas; No

has anyone had the following issues with IB and know how to solve them: 1. slow downloading of charts. the rest of my internet seems fine, explorer and mozilla load quick enough. The charts in IB TWS load slowly and sometimes just hang with a blank screen. 2. Stops are traded through multiple...

Wallstreet Sorry maybe i should have qualified my post a little more, although i was being a little personal in my comments. the culture (and it is culture) prevents then from admitting their failings. Its the Arabic way. The reason they cannot admit they have over spent and borrowed far too...

Plenty has been written about the darkside of the UK and USA because the governments of those countries are not afraid of the citisism (they sure don't like it but there is a certain freedom of the press). Dubai has its good points but the country has its head way too far up its own rectum to...

Gammer and C_C Your both clearly right but the intention was to add a smile with this comment, very little more. I can lose a little cash but something like this wont make me lose my sense of humour and I think I deserve alittle smile, it cost me enough. thanks Craig

Unicorn, it was only my second week with real cash, I had papertraded well until going live. I am treating this as a lesson well learned in terms of the old saying about walking and running and the order in which they should be attempted.

Seems I have started a bit of a debate, thanks for the rules of trading and the road, I see your point about the motor cyclist. I always trade with stops, my platform disconnected early on, luckly no damage but that taught me the benefit of having a stop cos the panick must have been something...

Thanks for the support everyone. I have had a much better day today, I made few mistakes earlier which cost me a few USD but over all I traded longer time frames, using smaller ones for timing. Risk reward was alittle low at just under 2:1 but not much (1.7 and i will work on this) but that was...

"Plan your trade and trade your plan". If only I knew that a few days ago At what point do the time frames get too small?

Hi Black Swan Yes thats correct, one BIG wake up call. still; if I look at it positively, if I can lose it over a short period, I am damn sure if I know what I am doing I can make it over the same period.... And yes I did try a contrarian strategy, needless to say that didn' work too well either.

Thank you for the quick replies, let me try and answer some of your questions starting from the top. GammerJammer & Charlton I have been trading USD/GBP and started off small with a profit here and there getting used to trading live. I started out with small lots at the minimum of 17000 GBP...

I hope you won't think me too forward and brash for posting this as a first post, i've been a member for a while and stop by to surf from time to time but so far never posted. I just went live for the first time a few days ago and I know this my personal journey and all but is there anyone here...