Sorry J. Only just remembered your post and had to pop out for half hour earlier.
Had I replied when I first read it. I would have said. That although I trade the ftse a lot. I very rarely trade it before 8 am. For one thing the spread is too wide with IG. (After 8 it is back to normal).
Also the overnight Dow and Dax were both coming up from the sell off and were back into what I would class as a buying op back to the mean. (That rubber band thing again). The ftse was still stagnantly oversoldl. So the drop on open (Futures)most def on the follow through. But the Dow/dax were saying to those that looked, it wasn't going into freefall. And everyone thought it would. (Me included last night).
10 screens Dan? That'll give you a sun tan m8. 10 screens? Do you really need 10 screens?
Opened buys on both gold and brent very, very early. (Bloody mosquito's again) because I expected a little pop before they got going. Was Down 3 grand on oil, and 1k on gold at one point. Gold put me plus 1k, but before I could close it it came back to under b/e, oil gave up 6 k and banked that...
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Not for real though...opened a demo last night from odl, haven't used mt4 for years. Forgot how much fun a demo can be! Do not like the re-quotes and slippage I was getting when trying to close the gold off. And this is on the demo. So very wary about opening a real account with them. Have traded gold on IG before. No problems at all. Actually, thinking about it I can't recall ever being requoted with IG. Mind you on the odl demo I did use max amount!
IG don't do brent though, only us light. Think this is a bit smoother to brent. (Now I know why they call it the beast). Spreads are 8 variable. So have to weigh that up against the slippage and requote of odl. (The slippage coming from that annoying little window that just spins around and around while the trade is being processed).