Recent content by Matt Houston

There's a popular expression back home, "Africa's not for sissies"

Come on admit it, you love us really.

OK, I've got it. Thanks, and bye.

Cool. It's one thing being stopped out for more pips than planned, but even worse when it's on a trade which should never have been executed. So hopefully adding the spread to the required price will take care of that. Thanks for the help.

OK, so let's say I wanted to place the below orders Entry stop @ 110 Stop loss @ 100 With a spread of 2 I would enter the below: Entry stop @ 112 Stop loss @ 102 Correct? And then I assume it's reversed for shorts?

I am almost embarrassed to ask this. How do I adjust my orders in order to take the spread into account? For example, if I am looking to go long, have a spread of 2 pips and want a stop loss to be triggered at a price of 100, if I literally place a stop of 100 it will be triggered at 102...

Thanks, I appreciate the advice. I didn't take this accounts role with the thought in mind that I would get anything like this oppurtunity, my line of thinking was I'd rather be in accounts in a brokerage firm (something which interests me) than for a remittance services or advertising co...

I've already asked my close relatives and friends, and I thought it would be interesting to hear what folks on here had to say, which it was, including your last two posts, so thanks. I think you took my comment about hijacking the thread a little more seriously than it was intended, no hard...

That's nice. Thanks to everybody else who contributed, it's been helpful.

You see, this is the kind of feedback I was hoping for. Thank you.

I can't believe you guys have hijacked my post into a thread about Australian girls and suntans. I was only half serious re the Aussie girls, and being from South Africa there is no need to educate me on the ins and outs of suntanning. The point of this thread is, I am concerned that maybe...

Well this is beside the point of my post but it's the weather man, I was thinking I'd get married to a beautiful Aussie girl, everybody's doing it ;)

Hi, Brief background: Got a job at a London brokerage firm in accounts dept, didn't get on with FC so resigned after three months, got drunk with options trader in pub who mentioned position going in options team, said he would mention to his boss I'm a good hard-working guy. Two weeks later...