Tag Archives: leverage

The Primary Trade Size Forumla

Position sizing is something that comes up ALL THE TIME in the discussions among new and developing …

Expanding Margin Rates in Silver

The CME Group yesterday announced that it would be bumping the margin on the silver futures contract …

New CFTC Rules for Retail Forex Trading

Can I say I told you so? The CFTC has finally come through with its new rules …

Working Out Position Size in Forex Trading

I got this (slightly edited) private message inquiry from a Trade2Win member yesterday. It gives me a chance to …

More New Margin Requirements

I posted before about the NFA’s new rules on maximum forex trading leverage permissible for traders with …

New NFA Forex Leverage Limits In Effect Today

I wrote a while back (New NFA Retail Forex Leverage Restrictions) about new rules coming into effect …

New NFA Retail Forex Leverage Restrictions

The National Futures Association (NFA) is not well liked by many retail forex traders because of restrictions …

Where does forex leverage come from?

A question was posted on BabyPips which occured to me as being something readers here might wonder …

How can forex brokers provide so much leverage?

Margin and leverage in trading are topics that cause a great deal of confusion to new traders. …

Defending Options Trading Against Blogger Attack

A fellow trading blogger wrote some things which really irked me. I’m not going to say who …

Keeping things simple in your trading

Beanieville posted Don’t Let All Those Technical Analysis Gurus Confuse You on Tuesday with the primary suggestion …

Being Clear on Margin

One of the things which traders new to leveraged trading sometimes get a bit wrong is margin …

What leverage is really all about

I brought up the topic of leverage a couple months ago in my post How much leverage …