I've dropped EUR/USD and take USD/CAD (short) into the grid.

Grid trading with very low leverage

No problem guys, keep it going! As long as it's somehow grid related I'm fine. Thanks for all your valuable input!

Grid trading with very low leverage

Makes sense. Thanks!

Grid trading with very low leverage

RedlineFred I've thought a bit about what you've said and you're right. I've added GBP/CHF (long), Silver as commodity (which is way too cheap atm!) for long and EUR/USD long as well.

Grid trading with very low leverage

Of course it is. But is it likely? No.

Turning $800 into $1 million in 1 year

I'm going to start to close them if they are far out of the money. There is no free lunch so losses will be there and those losses will be larger than the gains of course. Those big figures drops (about 1,000 pips) don't happen too often. But if ...

Grid trading with very low leverage

Sounds reasonable. Oil would be a bad choice because you pay quite a lot of interest over time...

Grid trading with very low leverage

Haha no, I just took a break of several years (no joke).

OANDA Discussion

Actually they pay interest on my AUD account balance.

OANDA Discussion

Hey aaven, I don't include any specific entry criteria. I just use a directional(!) grid. Money usually flows into higher interest assets as long as things are fine. There are unwinding situations as well which can become really ugly, so that's the ...

Grid trading with very low leverage

Thanks guys, btw: I tend to use kind of a stop loss which is about 500-1000 pips wide. So usually I will try to use made profits to close positions which are far out of the money to lower the exposure while reloading the grid over and over again. ...

Grid trading with very low leverage

Thank you! I'm going to need it. I failed so often I cannot count my failures anymore.

Trend trading, low leverage, $1,000 -> take over Microsoft

Good morning! First to give you an overview what I look for, here's an example from yesterday: image 1) Basically I look for setups where trends seem to start, all 3 MAs should move along and spread out nicely. 2) In that case I wait for a ...

5m intraday -> from €500 to..

You're right. I did not watch closely anymore. Closed out everything and will start a new journal with a different approach. I did not take care because of that low balance but that's quite a bad attitude. I'll start a new one tomorrow using an ...

Low leverage, avoiding the noise, starting with 500 up to INF

Thanks yonnie! Nice to see that you're still around. I'm back. Just opened some new positions (see Twitter). Generally currently equity markets seem to be in risk-off mode, so short Yen and Dollar.

Low leverage, avoiding the noise, starting with 500 up to INF

That's BS. They don't take the opposite site, why should they? They just hedge the NET outcome of ALL clients together. That might even be not much as many clients will offset each other. They just earn the spread and make a killing just with that ...

OANDA Discussion

I even use less than 1:1, typically 0.2:1 up to 1:1.

What leverage is best for a newbie?