... and here's a clue directly from FXCM's site: url for all the reasons they explain much better than me in the above link. Quod erat demonstrandum.

Locked (hedge) trade can face a Margin Call

If you are totally locked, the equity will only be going down by a momentaneous change in spread, or after the day close because of the swap difference, which is always negative. I do not know if your broker allows you to hedge when the margin level ...

Locked (hedge) trade can face a Margin Call

In fact it is possible (but those trades do not show on the posted statement), as meanwhile the pair goes down he could be picking tops and sell to hedge in the retracements up and closing them thereafter with a profit (which goes to the balance but ...

Locked (hedge) trade can face a Margin Call

Where does the $25000 amount come from and why doesn't it show in the statement totals? You were trading 11 full standard lots (as it shows in the statement and double checked with the amounts per lots) which represent $110 which is deducted from ...

Locked (hedge) trade can face a Margin Call

Food and household expenses... for now.

Where do all your forex profits go to?

Maybe... but the data are on the statement for everyone to see Now at 1:200, much worse then!

Locked (hedge) trade can face a Margin Call

Forex Chart Patterns: Currency Price Gaps Bar charts and candlestick charts depict gaps that may occur between close and open prices. Technical analysis refers to these gaps as interruptions. A price gap represents an empty space between one trading ...

A question

Margin required at 500:1 is rounded $2938. Would be $3672 at 400:1, so 6 or 7 pips less left on total available, that is 39 or so instead of 46 (and even earlier MC)... In all this I am not taking into account the spreads or the minimum percentage ...

Locked (hedge) trade can face a Margin Call

I did some calculations to try to sort out this mystery. Numbers between parenthesis are order numbers for the trades taken, as per the statement dates. (1) usdjpy buy 1 lot 97.133 sell (11) 94.812 = 232.1 pips x 10 = $2321 (2) eurusd buy 2 lots ...

Locked (hedge) trade can face a Margin Call

Limit as well as market orders follow the same principle, at ANY broker: You SELL at BID price and TP or SL on short is at ASK price. You BUY at ASK price and TP or SL on long is at BID price.

OANDA Discussion

Have you tried using the widget? url (BTW the link to the page that is on the above, works fine. They must have been changing the site...) Here it is: url Anyway you could just use FF's own!

oanda market hours page messed up?

Even at 500:1 leverage $200 isn't enough to cover the margin requirements for a standard lot plus spreads and some room...

age limit a problem to find good brokers

"The Tao abides in non-action, Yet nothing is left undone. If kings and lords observed this, The ten thousand things would develop naturally. If they still desired to act, They would return to the simplicity of formless substance. Without form there ...

Trading thoughts

Great post.

Trading too Wilfully

Oanda mobile trading is very simple and should work on any Internet-able model. I personally use a Nokia 3500 and it works fine.

Nokia e61 + OANDA. It is posible?

The leverage on the Tester will be the same as the account. Demo accounts are not separated into mini or standard... depending on the broker you will be able to trade from 0.01 lots (micro) or 0.1 lots (mini). However I have seen a few MT4 platforms ...

MetaTrader backtester settings

= S/R (timed)

ICCE. Bemac's Fib. Reverse Engineered

Too many indicators in the folder You have two options: 1. Do a cleanup and store the indicators you don't use presently in another place. 2. Leave them all there, and use the Navigator to drag the needed indicators to your chart.

THV system, final edition

Here are some clues (4PMA = dynamic fibo levels) url

What INDI is that???

Do a search on the programming forum, the code to add to any indicator based on "point" calculations so it works with either 4 or 5 decimal platforms has been given in several threads. Here are two versions: url url but there's one better and ...

Stoopid Newbie Questions about IBFx New 5 Decimal Place Feed