Recent content by Alan Kerr

I'm not an American but totally agree. Not just Iraq but Afghanstan as well must be costing the US dearly. Obama will not be the new messiah but lets hope he brings some positives to the table but as we all in the world know he is only head of a committee and only as good as those who are behind...

We would all like to think we are with an honest broker and all one can do is research. Hard enough to weed out the scams and now one has to worry about how financially secure these people are. Interested in seeing more replies to this.

FXCM support Sorry you have had a bad experience with them, I have had great support. I initially run accounts with GFT and Easy-Forex but settled on FXCM because I found they gave me the support I was after. Slippage is a problem at times but where isn't it. Alan Kerr

trading times I use Thunderbird for my emails and you can install an add-on called Foxy Clocks which can be set to show local times of all the world markets. Don't need to convert times to your local time then Alan

youth trading My 13yo daughter is trading an account opened by her mother. In legal terms it is her mothers account and she is the only one who can deposit and withdraw profits. If you get your parents to open it you should not be liable for extra taxes, the profits should only be taxed once...

technical issues FXCM Cheers all sorted. I read a lot here at times critical of FXCM but I once again give them the thumbs up. They had huge technical issues last week and have bent over backwards to make sure I and I presume no-one else was disadvantaged. :) Al Kerr

Hi anyone experiencing problems with FXCM at the moment? They just made a margin call on all my open positions even though I had plenty of equity. I checked the figures and the NZ/US pair where I had 1 open position should have been just over .55 they showed it had spiked at .71 when they made...

another quote of wisdom from the past "Finance is the art of passing money from one hand to the next until it finally disappears"-Unknown Some great quotes out there traders, anyone know any? Al

"Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes little sense for those who know what they're doing." - Warren Buffet lots of great quotes out there. Anyone know any??? Have a good holiday guys Al Downunder

indicators Hi, really hard poll for me to answer as different things at different times are indicative as to how I trade different pairs. Maybe you could add "variable number of indicators which induce a gut feeling". :) Sometimes if I find myself in a bad trade it becomes purely mathmatical...

"There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate, when he can afford it and when he can't"- Mark Twain Cheers guys Al

Hi, thought I might add a daily quote for a bit of fun (on the days I remember anyway). "The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour upon the business known as gambling" -Ambrose Bierce Cheers and have a good weekend guys Al

Hi I'm Al from downunder and been trading only a short time. Could someone tell me when you open a position is the quoted PIP cost fixed at the amount quoted when the position is opened or does it change as the quoted amount changes? Also same with Rollover, is it fixed at the price when the...

Hi, I'm in NZ and use FXCM and are very happy with them. Why do you need to deal with someone based in Oz? I think it is more important to find a trustworthy company with software you are comfortable with no matter where they are based. This site has a list of reviews of different dealers that...

life away from forex I don't consider any purchase that depreciates as an asset but a liability. I know where your husband is coming from, I once collected Lladro, Carnival Glass and Art Deco. I think collecting comes into two catagories, hobby and investment. My collecting now is limited to...