peterf1966
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PeterF1966 and I are good boys for ages now, we keep our stashes in our offset tracker mortgage accounts and just have enough in the trading account to cover the deposit needed. Was a pain on the recent bad week though for me as the tNT losses depleted the trading account and I was having to debit card extra funds in each morning as it had enough for the MNT trade but not enough for the NT trade. Panic to find my wallet @ 6.31am getting ever closer to the trap set amount.
NT drama!
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Within the Virginone account I have I can set up virtual savings accounts - one of which is called net trap. The money in there, plus the money in my ETX and IG accounts adds up to my total bank, running total of the 3 accounts is recorded on my spreadsheet, and used to determine position size every day, based on 2% MM. It sounds more complex than it is, works well.
ETX let you bet in multiples of 10pence/pip, but IG lets you do weird amounts, once past 50p/pip, like £1.08 per pip, which allows an ultra strict following of the 2% risk rule.
Money in savings accounts is pointless if you also have a mortgage - offset to make your money work for you.