yeaaa asked:


Right now i have a normal money market account on E-Trade and i have to wait 3 days for my money to come back so I was thinking of getting a margin account. This is what it says for the rate “6.99% (3.00% above base rate)” Can someone explain this to me?
I usually buy about 20,000 worth of a stock at a time
And does the margin get repaid when the money from the last trade becomes settled?

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William M asked:


Currently at the time of writing I am 18 years of age and I have been practicing stock, commodity and currency trading in several different practice accounts. What I have discovered is that I am best at currency trading and I make the most money out of trading that way. With stocks and commodities I have had moderate successes but I’m better at FX trading than anything else and I’ve learned a lot too.

I also know that currency tends to trend long term such as a few months to a few years which is where currency options are best suited. Spot-forex trading on the other hand is traded on margin and is best suited to short term trading of the FX markets.

I have only had practice trading FX in spot-forex and spread betting, both of which had a return of several hundred percent. What I would like to know is what is the best way to trade forex out of currency options, spread betting or spot FX, and which is best suited to a UK resident to gain wealth? Please help/advise. Thanks.

P.S. Sorry its so long.

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Igor asked:


I am planning to open an account to trade on FOREX. Since I am new to trading on FOREX I am interested in opening an account where I can trade micro lots of 1,000 with margin no more then 1%. What would you recomend?
Thanks.

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moneylearner asked:


In a typical brokerage trading account, what are the differences between a cash and margin account when it comes to the treatment of negative balances?

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rubyoro0 asked:


Can somebody help me out here….I am not trading on margin, but I got a margin call today saying it was generated yesterday for about $65 and is due today. Do I have to meet that? I mean-I’m no longer
classified as being a patterned day trader. I don’t want to call the
broker because I no longer have the funds when I started and I don’t
want to loose my $3 per trade fee since I am no longer day trading. In
other words I don’t want to alert them. “Account margin equity falls below FINRA minimum maintenance
requirements.”

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Qw Q asked:


I am going to start trading this summer. Is it too unrealistic to ask for a 1-2 % profit ratio a day? I am with an online brokerage account and the comission fees are a dollar minimum per trade with a penny per share. Transaction costs are basically zero and i wont be using options or trading with margin(unless shorting) so the interest rates wont account for fees either. Are my expectations too high? Mind you im not expecting to profit 2 percent every single day but at least profit more than lose on a 3 times a week basis.

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Ryan L asked:


On http://thinkorswim.com under the question of “what is the account minimum?”, the answer they give is:

For foreign exchange trading a fully funded thinkorswim margin account needs to be opened first. Once opened you can transfer a starting balance of $500 to the full amount of your margin account to your thinkorswimfx trading account.

What would be a fully funded margin account? I’m new to this as you may have guessed

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mrrmaid asked:


I have a margin-enabled trading account with fidelity. WIth each trade, I have the choice to purchase with cash, or margin. I made three cash trades a few days ago. It appears that since, Fidelity has “sold” each one and converted each position to margin. What the heck? Is this typical?
I called fidelity, but I still don’t understand at all. They said all positions in a margin account are automatically converted to margin. There is an option when you purchase to buy with “cash” or “margin,” but apparently this option is meaningless. There seems to be no way to hold a cash position in this margin account, if I understand, which is somewhat doubtful.

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westphalia1 asked:


For trading inexpensive call and put stocks? say-Blockbuster or Fannie Mae?

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eralClauP asked:


I HATE the T+3 settlement rule, and have lost LOTS of money because of it. When looking for a way around it, other then trading on margin, some guy on a forum suggested having multiple cash accounts to avoid getting profiled as a PDT and being able to trade everyday since you could have an account for every day of waiting for the 3 business days to finish for another. Not being able to day trade without margin is a pain the the butt and this seems like the only solution I can think of. So will Zecco allow this, or do I have to make three accounts with different online brokers?

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