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Old 07-27-2007, 01:52 PM
Indigo Indigo is offline
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Originally Posted by dpaterso View Post
At this point I am showing a net profit of $2182 for a total layout (margin requirement) of about $1500 - and that is after two days. And that is after having two positions stopped out already. One thing to be careful of is trading pairs that have high spreads like my beloved ???/ZAR - it has to move too much to realise a profit (unless you work on the Weekly or Monthly timeframes - then you'll be OK).
That would be my question. If someone is trading the 4 major pairs (EUR/USD, USD/CHF, GBP/USD, USD/JPY) on the daily, what kind of funds would they need to have in their brokerage account in order to totally play this out?

Let me think about this. I enjoy reading everyone's experiences and ideas
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