Hi, You are right; I forgot Forex in my choices.
Ton: You said you started with 5000$; that was enough for trading future.. I read somewhere that one needed more money for futures than for stocks. Is it right? Thanks, Louis 2008/8/1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Louis, > > I would say that futures are the most profitable, but they are also very > volatile. With futures, that anything under 15 minutes gets you too many > trades in and out of the market. I like to use longer time frames. I am not > very experienced in futures, but I have made and lost a lot of money. > However, in all my futures trading over the last 2 years, I have more than > quadrupled my investment. See my post under your last post "*Anyone > actually making money?* *".* > ** > I am looking at forex, but I don't know anything about it. I would just > stick with gold futures, but I think that if I start trading more than 5 > contracts, it may cause a problem because I only have a trading window of > one minute on each of my 3 trading periods. > > Tom > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > *From:* Louis P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Friday, August 01, 2008 2:51 PM > *Subject:* [amibroker] Futures or stocks? > > Hi group, > > The last thread which I started really helped me to realize a lot of > things, one of them is that Brian is right when he says I am sipping the > soup on a lot of tables but never stay for the meal. > > I'd like change that. > > I would like to concentrate on a particular kind of market (actions or > futures) and a particular timeframe (1-minute, 5-minute, 15-minute, 1-hour, > daily,etc). > > I know I may get zillions of different responses, but what do you consider > to be the more promising? > > I've read that more and more people consider futures are the future (haha!) > because of the high volatility and trading opportunities. Is this true? If > yes, how much money do I need to trade them? I've heard you need a lot! > And do I need to be there watching for 24 hours a day? And what about > stocks and ETF? I'd like to read some people opinion about what they > consider to be the most promising way... > > Of course, I won't start threads like this every two days! ;-) I'm just > really thinking about this all and am tired to switch markets, timeframe, > strategies, plans, all the time. I'd like to choose something and stay with > it. But I want to choose what's most promising! > > Thanks! > > Louis > > >
