FCA say only they will await ESMA requirements and must comply with them. My SB firm say the same though I am encouraging them to respond to the ESMA consultation (closes 05/02).

UK online broker shares hammered by ESMA leverage proposals

Well done mate. Don't waste time contacting the FCA. I spoke with them by phone and they would only say they will await the ESMA leverage etc. requirements and must comply with them. I'm not sure I believe that 100% - it seems likely the FCA will ...

FX Trading in Europe under threat - act now

What's a TE?

I challenge you to a Forex duel!

Egotistical traders aren't fun to chat with. But even more annoying are the guys who insist everyone making a profit has to post live trades and a copy of their trading account statement.

I challenge you to a Forex duel!

Are we talking about the same thing? I mean (and I think we all mean) the % of the account capital that would be lost if the stop-loss was hit directly after entry.

How much do you risk per trade?

My SB provider can't say anything yet, except no new FCA requirements yet announced. Have emailed FCA for clarification if new leverage restrictions if imposed will apply to SB. They should answer with 2 days.

UK online broker shares hammered by ESMA leverage proposals

I am up to 5% on a trade with a strong trend. Minimum is 2%.

How much do you risk per trade?

There is no logic in this. The possibility of two opposing outcomes does not make both equally probable. If it did, every airplane that took off would have a 50% probability of crashing rather than landing. However, maybe your trades have only a 50% ...

Never Go Against the Trend?

The probability of a winning or losing trade is not 50/50 merely because there are 2 possible outcomes. Trends in the financial markets do not form and persist because of a human weakness in calculating probability of consecutive outcomes from ...

Never Go Against the Trend?

Hi and welcome to trading. I am a long-term forex trader so news events don't make much immediate impact on my trades - most bad news comes out during downtrends, most good news during uptrends, its rare to get some unexpected or planned news that ...

Technical & Fundamental trading

I've never considered doing this in forex as the market is in a free field - the structure of the market and the pair's value is free for all market participants to decide, bu buying or selling. But stock indices are constructed to have an upside ...

Different rules for BUY and SELL?

I use a form of grid trading to keep me in continuing trends. Thing is, there is on absolute way to know a trend will continue so I let price tell me. e.g. Say I see a long set-up and enter at 5000 with a 100 SL at 4900. At the same time I enter a ...

Question About Grid Trading

I've used them for spread-betting since they traded under the Capital Spreads trade-name. They are reliable and helpful, reliable comprehensive platform or trade with them via MT4. UK-regulated so covered by FCA re trading fairly and by customer ...

Anyone using LCG, how are they?

Greed and fear are the same thing - greed is fear.

control greed!

I don't use trailing stop-losses as such, I don't like the idea of being taken out of a position simply based on how many pips have come off price's furthest point of travel, when the TA might still be extremely profitable. But I do advance my stops ...

Who is best ? stop loss or trailing stop

If you're trading something with low liquidity, even if markets are open and you can access via your broker or spread-betting firm, spreads can be a major cost (and risk) when volumes are low. These are "invisible" as they don't show on a price ...

Do you stop trading during the end of year holidays?

That's all sound I am sure of course there's a lot of chaff to sort from the wheat of what people post. But if you get more posts, you should get a lot more wheat I hope.

I will share everything I know with one or two trading mates

Never even looked at it. Like when I'm buying a car or insurance or using a bank, the share price would be the last thing on a long list of must-haves and I'll have made a decision way before that point.

Best UK spreadbetting broker advice please?

I only enter trades via orders and about 1 in 10 comes out with a very slightly different stop-loss to what I thought, so maybe they adjusted the entry up or down a bit, I guess that would account for the difference. But as I trade long-term, it ...

Best UK spreadbetting broker advice please?

Some things to query is whether the regulator in your jurisdiction requires that clients' funds are held in a separate account from the firm's operational funds and secondly if there is a client account protection scheme. This would be a scheme that ...

Brokers are not obliged to fulfill stop loss - True or Morality?