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FLVT - Re your FXCM info
What is the min trade size? 10p or £2.00.
If its 10p does it go up in multiples of 10p or can you place say a 15p trade size?

bunny - whereabouts do you play?

just arrived in Barca :-)


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am happy that my Dax positions are running at neutral, but that only forms a part of my trading portfolio
balance is with individual stocks

Bunny, Min 10p, in step of 1p.
Trade can be partially close, I believe.

Now that the 2nd long of the day's closed, I'm going to do a bit of gardening.

Bunny - You know how big my front garden is so as you seem to be the only club member here, please can you take over while I plant a few pansies?

Wilco Ken, I will try to get mine to close @10608.1.

Thanks for info FLVT, I like the sound of that.
What is the downside to moving to FXCM then as I can only see positives.

cynic - I play on a half decent public course just north of Watford, what about you.
Current hcp 21, drifting upwards.

Bunny;
Can't see it at the moment; time will tell.
When GKFX demo is down and dead for previous account holder, I am truly disappointed, as it took me quite a while to build up positions for testing purposes.
As their LIVE/DEMO is d now and again. So, for the time being, demo is moved. Haven't decided on LIVE yet.

The Grove i assume ...... if so, it's tough but fair though haven't played tgere for about 3 years

for me, a surrey course in the middle of a housing estate, but it's in ace condition (14 and trying to bring down)

There you go Ken, an hour on the tiller and the Buy closes OK for 51pts
Back over to you.

Thanks for your help Bunny. I was expecting you to do better than that and open my next short, but I'm sure you did your best.

5 longs closed in a row and it's beginning to look as if we'll have another fairly soon.

It looks like 17:45 for the next long and if I'm right about the time, it will be an even crazier trade than the last one. Still it doesn't matter as long as it opens, because you can't close a trade the never opened.

Have just created a new FXCM demo account but can only see FX pairs on the symbols drop down list. I'll contact support to see how good they are.

I did not get the 'daily confirmation' email from gkfx on Tuesday. Did everyone else using gkfx get theirs?

Bunny - http://www.fxcm.com/uk/indices/trading-costs/

JR - Thanks for the reminder. I didn't get mine either!

Good point JR neither did I. In fact my last one was last Fri 30th!

Yes, mine last one was also Fri 30th, but Monday DAX was closed, so that could be why that one did not appear

I did get an email from gkfx today saying they are experiencing some technical issues.

The email explained how to fund your account while the issues are there. Basically using www.gkfx.co.uk/sca/account/login

Maybe these issues are affecting their email reports as well. If no report today, will have to chase up with support. No idea if the missing report can be sent.

OK sorted the FXCM issue now
Looks like the Trading station has a minimum trade size of £0.10 but the MT4 platform has a minimum of £1.00. No good for me in that case.

Am I the only one making money this morning?

If greedy Bunny gets his 50 points, I might get my level 4 short. It's very close at the moment.