I agree with Merlin...You should have tested their platform through the demo login first & tried everything you would have been doing live... Here is what I think happened to your account...You probably made a JPY related trade..IB won't allow you ...

stuck in postion, please help

So actually you are up around 26% in a year...In a sense, this is within the average returns of the professionals in the financial industry that was being talked about at the beginning of the thread Thanks, Nader

Why professionals "only" make ~30% anually

With all the due respect, but there will be no possible Israeli attacks against Iran simply because Israelis will fear failure & scandals as it happened in Lebanon with Hezzbollah...Of course it is a different situation, but anyway, this is not a ...

Gold Discussion

You can go ahead, I won't be angry at you although I believe that I am not a 100% mature trader... Thanks, Nader

Think Outside the Box

Pure mechanical trading is not going to work all the time in my opinion...I believe that you can only set up the complete trading rules only inside the mind of a human trader...Additionally, there are many aspects which you actually can't account ...

Think Outside the Box

I am short the AUD/USD as well...I shorted at 0.7894 almost 2 days ago... Thanks, Nader

recent AUD action

Change them...It is that simple Move to another broker... Although I don't agree with what they are doing, but this way they are saving your money, so nothing to complain about actually, you should send them a thank you email instead My ...

another news-time broker complaint

For the purpose of opening a forex account I don't think you will need your passport at all...May be some brokers require it, but I never needed it to open my forex account... For the issue of other stock and/or futures brokers, I faced this problem ...

Notarized Passport copy in Egypt

Most probably it will need you around $1B to make a difference...$1,000,000,000 is 10,000 standard lots...If you use 100:1 leverage (I doubt anybody in the universe will allow you to have 100:1 leverage if you trade above $10M not $1B), it means ...

How many lots makes a difference?

Every loss I make & take makes me a better trader... Thanks, Nader

Forex Resources - What made you a good Trader?

Grains & Agricultural Futures — I hope that you guys are following the grains market...Please don't take this as trade recommendation, but I would like to tell you that I am extremely bullish on all grains... Corn went limit up today and ...

Grains & Agricultural Futures

Thanks my friend...So I think that I am at the end of the list on this thread .... Thanks, Nader

Winning Trades String League

If I post my trading history over here you will find that I have almost 10 consecutive losses in a row and 2 or 3 winners in a row, yet I am up 15% on a an equity basis...80% of the profit comes from 2 trades immersed in the middle of the lousy ...

Winning Trades String League

Statistically, it has been proven that 20-25% of all traders and/or investors in the financial markets use technical analysis, so I don't think what you are saying could be true by any mean... Another very important point is that if all traders are ...

self fulfilling prophecy trade

COT data are extremely delayed, plus you can't know who is correct about the market at many time unless we are in a clear defined trend, up or down...Commercials are the guys who know the business of the commodity very well more than anyone ...

What is the best Forex Predictor???

You mean LONG, not SHORT..?? Thanks, Nader

Reverse The Trend My Friend

1- If your gf calls you and says that she needs your support & you immediately answer, on what time frame? 2- If you go to the supermarket and while watching the price of any item on the shelf, you are always searhcing for the open, high, low & ...

Humor: You know you're obsessed with Technical Analysis when...

What I mean is that in real life trading, there is a huge tendency that 90% of traders (Usually retail traders, the ones like us) enter a trending market at the top & short at the bottom...This is a very famous quote, that most retail traders are ...

Trend is your friend (Image attached)

If you mean forex brokers having trailing stop orders, then FX Solutions & Interbank FX do have the trailing stop feature...All brokers have the pre-set take profit orders...You just place 3 different limit orders with different position sizes all ...

Any brokers offer this type of functionality?

90% of traders are wrong on the future direction of the trend at the turning points.... Thanks, Nader

Trend is your friend (Image attached)