The Bank, Futures Division - Trading Reports - Page 4
Page 4 of 734 FirstFirst ... 234
Results 31 to 34 of 334

Thread: The Bank, Futures Division - Trading Reports

  1. #31
    03-26-2018 End of day posting. Going to try and explain what to watch out for when trading futures. One thing to do every 15 mins prior to the futures market close is compute your own equity/initial margin ratio and ensure that it is beneath the brokers %, AMPfutures is at 80%, tradovate is 90% and Gain Capital Futures is at 95%. The top would be with Gain Capital Futures in case you are a position trader since this means you can ride out anything, even Friday's huge move.

    Equity/initial margin = net liquid value(account balance ( /-) unrealized profit or loss)/(all initial margin requirement). Most brokers will not care about the maintenance margin and will continue to do the calculation of risk based from initial margin.

    Here is how futures brokers get you, they inform you day trading margin for sp500 is 500, the trade says if you want to hold it will cost $6,380. You finance the account for $5k and you long 1 contract of this sp500, you are up $750 bucks unrealized, you want to hold overnight since you know it will go up more. However, end of the day your account maintains $0, why is that you wonder? Because your equity/initial margin is above any of those brokers risk ratio.

    In one of my accounts they shut 3 of my trades, I got angry because they ought to have the decency to call me to put more money in. Either way I'm up by a lot and that account just suffered 3k loss.


  2. #32
    04-05-2018 I have been busy with my move and starting my own business, but discovered some time to exchange in between. My figure for tomorrows job amounts ought to be down, with that said bonds up, stocks up, dollar down, gold up. Stocks would be up because the current down moves was to correct for inflation. Above all to the bond market is income development. I am going to this shorting the dollar, submitting my positions as well.

    Additionally trading is all about your managing skills not setting stop losses. I was in recently in the commerce UBM8, ultra bonds, I was down 100k, most people would simply gag at that. Now I exited that positions with 34k profit. No stop loss, just managing the position.








  3. #33
    04-09-2018 Dollar brief is performing nicely. Expecting the tendency to continue.

    Today's


    this month's


    this season's

  4. #34
    Subscribed!

    And Tradovate looks awesome mate!

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  
This website uses cookies
We use cookies to store session information to facilitate remembering your login information, to allow you to save website preferences, to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners.