Recent content by Go easy on Margin

and heres the chart Macs dont work well here. Vertical is the original a/c value, horizontal is the percent of a/c risked per trade. As you can see beyond a certain point it doesnt work. It's an interesting experiment to do varying risk reward, percent of trades correct etc. I'm sure this...

One more thought I totally agree with the 2 previous posters. Here's one more thing I did which I found helpful. If you have excel and know a little VBA it's not to hard to create a simulation using random numbers where you run an account over time with your risk parameters. To make it...

ok, good luck.

out of curiosity, how much do you expect to make annually on the $2k account?

It depends how you structure the position and where you leave your s/l. You should be able to figure out how your provider will margin you but risking 2% of the account should still leave a large margin to open new positions even if the first is in drawdown.

if you are basing your position size on your account value why does the amount of leverage matter?

I forgot to say this You need a quad processor computer for multitasking, at least 2GB ram and preferably two monitors for sufficient screen real-estate + a decent broadband connection, stability is more important than speed. Cheers.

Some advice... Hi, Well I wasn't sure where to post this but this seems like a good place. First of all I would like to say that I think FPA is a great idea for beginners as there are a lot of scams both on the broker side and selling useless trading systems, in fact if you want a trading...