Recent content by mishdog

Yeah I was looking for a mid-term investment. In all honesty, I didn't actually realise you can extend the expiry date like that. So, when I bought in a week ago at 16.15 through IG Index, I could have had the option to set December as the expiry? (just would have paid more)

Thanks for getting back to me. As you can tell, I'm a total novice but was informed it was a good opportunity to buy into the vix and had no idea about the contract expiring. Anyway, I do now so a couple more questions if you don't mind.. - I have a friend that investment banks at a big bank...

okay, seems I was a tad naive - didn't realise that when you roll over you get put into the next month's price of the vix, I thought you just roll over the same position you were at. first ever trade = money down the drain :(

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I am in my first trade right now, on the vix futures. It expires on Tuesday, I got told I get a 40% concession on the spread if I rollover.. is there any downside to rolling over? I don't quite follow it all yet :) don't see why anything expires when the position/price of the vix changes every...

thanks for the replies. oh and mr arabian, thats not my account ! I play cash on ipoker & ongame, not $0.10 sng's :) I've actually skimmed over that thread before Sal, but since I didnt even understand the stuff he was posting re trading, I gave up right away. Need to learn first! Although I...

Hard to answer, you could say that working in something vaguely financial may make you appear more interested in trading to a prospective firms. I don't see that work for a financial company / bank will make any practical difference as there is very little linked to trading within these...

Thanks for the responses and advice. Do you think I would be much better off getting a financial/banking job if I have the intention of perhaps applying for a trainee trading job at some point? As opposed to just getting a job I enjoy, learning how to trade on the side, and then not having the...

I have always wanted to get into trading, despite knowing f all about it. I have been finished uni 2 years and now that I've seen sense and realised professional poker isn't a very secure route to go down, I am now on a serious job hunt! Obviously the fact I dont have a clue how to trade means...