Recent content by DaManJ

thankyou for your moral take on the situation. not only are you now my role model for how to 'man up', but clearly you have gems of wisdom on how to get the most morality out of a situation as well. So i entirely agree with you that customers should be held responsible for a companies trade...

hehe, i think the first time was when you farted on a tour of the whitehouse. double :cheezy:

well, to be honest i have in fact thought of that before. And i don't understand why every colleague grad doesn't try it. Just think about it, you can risk 1 yr salary and earn it 400 times over. or, you can lose 1 yr salary, and just keep retrying once you get more capital to try again. Or...

Ah thats right because i keep all my money with my broker like every sensible trader does -> why be poor when i can risk it all leveraged 400:1 !! with that return i could retire nice and comfortable right? and why not, the downside is capped at bankruptcy, and i can keep re-trying as many times...

The extent you are going to justify your statement of 4% gap on a major currency pair is inconsitent with your statement that these things happen 'all the time'. The next time a nuclear bomb goes off at the white house i won't be here posting on this forum, i'll be down at the local bank branch...

no, i got over 100 points slippage because IB closed up shop for 15 minutes whilst the rest of the market was open and trading away from the stop. I would not post on this forum if it was related to a bad trading decision. I have made/lost, 10's of Ks due to good/bad trading decisions. $1300 is...

That i would like to see. Can you prove this with real examples of people who have experienced 300-400 points slippage on a stop loss order whilst the market is open? You do realise you are suggesting a currency can fall >4% without trading anywhere in-between. FX is the most liquid market in...

yeah, unfortunately it is on their web site, in fact i've been accross that page before but missed that. It's called selective reading - things which don't make sense to your brain just don't go in! I know FX to be a 24 hr market so how could it possibly not be ;) Maybe they should put that in...

hmm maybe i should give them a try. I do really like meta trader. fantastic charting platform. i use the fxcm demo account currently to do all my charting.

If i got that slippage on non farm payroll i would not be bothered. However closing 'your' market whilst everyone else is open is just poor business. Trading is not about holding your balls and hoping for the best. Casino's are great for that. So anything that increases uncertainty / risk for...

I'm really glad you replied. You are far more engaging than the html elements on an otherwise empty web page. You may in fact be on par with the interest i would give a banner add advertizing viagra, which i would need if I ever met up with that aformentioned hooker. You are indeed "Judging"...

thanks :) but i think a hooker is going to give me a bit too much slippage

Thanks for you constructive input. I will definitely try to 'man up' as i know that is what is missing in my life and what i need to do to be a better person. I'm sure you can lead the way in showing how to be a real man. In fact please share more of what you think i need to do to achive that...

Yes i was wondering that too. just in terms of the hedge though i guess as a broker they will only hedge their net long / short position rather than on a per trade basis. but yeah, it makes sense they wouldn't give much away for free if the market never really closed. They may all be a bunch of...

ah, but small cheeze can put off quite a smell... care to try? but i do not suggest that IB would do that. but they would definitely have one of the biggest FX books out there in terms of brokers dealers. So the thought just struck the lateral side of my evil mind as interesting... After all...