So £10-£20 per point in a spreadbetting account is reasonable?...
It doesn't give you really bad fills and stuff ?
I'm not at that stage yet, working up to it ....
What do you guys think the maximum you can place on an Intra-day FTSE100 trade before the fill takes too long and there is not enough volume, would £100 per point be okay for the FTSE100 ?
I'm just thinking what the potential money could be in day-trading the FTSE100, thankyou.
(I've been learning to trade for 3 months now and finally gone live so i'm relatively new to trading really, although i feel i have learnt very quickly... I'm 18 btw so my thoughts are still fast and upbeat since i just finished my education lol)
OK my experiance.
Generally I do not have much of a problem placing trades on my platform. but it does depend on how I place my trades. if I place a market order it goes in quite quickly. sometimes there is a lag due to the number of actions happening at that time but he price is generally the same as i hit the button. i sometimes get requotes but again this is usually in my favour. if I place a limit or stop order it always fills at that time not had a problem yet.
Ive spent sometime with my account manger asking such questions such as when will ban me if i'm to successful, At what point do you start to take notice of my trading etc.
I gave an example of if I traded at £20 per pt and took 50pts a day out would that alert you? the answer was with a laugh and during we have traders placing £500 per pt and making money so no it would not bother us. £500 per pt is the limit they have
if you are that good we will mirror your trades.
Now I can’t say the same for every provider i guess all are different, and i have heard some horror stories of peoples accounts being closed limited etc. It may happen to me but I'm not there yet. all I can do is trust in the relationship I have with them.
they do provide some indictors etc for traders and I have acted in the past as a tester for them so I hope and trust it works in my favour but time will tell.
as far as making money as you have traded forex, you can make your money on any instrument. the diffs are what margin you need to need trade, what bank size in relation to risk/ reward to amount that you can afford to bet. as you mentioned before you risk 1% of you bank so as long as the rest of the maths work out your good to go.
on the ftse you can take 10pt trades and they can seem to be rather heavy where as 10pips on forex is nothing and trades 24 hrs with the same spread on bid and ask as far as i know. The ftse depending on provider can range from 1pt spread to 3 during market hours on the cash 8:00 - 16:30 then change to up to 6pt spread overnight if they allow extended hours trading. ODL and some other s close at 16:30 and open at 8 with a 2 pt spread all day.
So what I’m trying to say it is relative, for me i trade the ftse because it suits the time I want to trade. I looked and had a ago at forex and found I was getting annoyed that i missed a good move at 2am or 6am , 8pm when i was either asleep, watching TV or socialising. It also boils down to what kind of trader you are? A friend of mine can’t trade intraday it does his head in, he trades more longer term. One of his trades can last weeks or months but he makes money does he make more than me sometimes yes sometimes no. Does he risk more than me? His R/R is the same 2:1 does he risk more per trade in pound notes yes he does.
In that respect Francis is right as you will see from my previous posts I only talk in the amount of points I am making risking losing, But I know you understand that as I said before I believe you are an experienced trader even if it has been only a few months, time and age is not really an issue its about what you have been exposed to in that time and how you handle those experiences.
I spent some time with a new trader going through how I trade what I do etc to get him started, now he’s coming to me saying have you tried this and that have noticed, I tell you what I hadn’t. Anyway going of track.
To sum up can money be made out the ftse YES how much is down to you and to your platform provider. How quickly is a question? Don’t be in too much of a rush to reach the moon there is always tomorrow.
Find a provider you like and ask them the what if questions. Cultivate a relationship with them it might pay you dividends. There is a consensus of opinion that SB’s and brokers are the enemy. They need us as much as we need them so we have to find a balance, so they can win and we can win and of course some are better than others.
I hope this answers you question. A bit more long winded than I wanted but hey.
keith