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On 02/05/2020 at 12:24, Caseynotes said:

Not a silly question at all, many sites such as Barchart, Tradingview, Marketwatch are quoting exchange prices but if you are trading through a broker you will be looking at the best prices the broker can offer. Brokers obtain their prices from many sources including exchanges such as major banks, hedge and pension funds, large institutions.

Having many liquidity providers allows a 24 hour market 5/7 market and is why no 2 brokers ever have the exact same quotes though they should all be close to the exchange price they track. It's also why many indicators will look different than those based solely on exchange OHLC and the inclusion of the broker's 1 hour daily Sunday candle distorts indicators even more.

Hi Again,

 

ok thanks for your help on this. so i'm just trying to make out money management for my future portfolio (most likely losers!) but what im wondering is about the margins returned once a trade is closed? so i get how the margin is calculated initially (5% or 10% of buy price/sell price) so say if my stop loss at 10% or whatever is hit and i get out of that trade....do i still get the initial margin i paid back or has the margin now devalued also now that the value is 5 or 10% less and i end up not only losing on my trade but losing 10% of my margin also?

many thanks for your help....

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This might be a silly question but how come actual closing prices are differnet for spot and futures on different websites ie barchart...its just for doing weekly ma when prices are different you get different entry and exit points for me. apologies if a silly question!!?

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11 hours ago, Caseynotes said:

Thanks for this. i'm looking to do a weekly chart When will the site update to the weekly close price? at the moment the last weekly close price is Monday April 27th. or is there any other site that will have updated weekly prices?

Thank you!

 

11 hours ago, Caseynotes said:

Nas and S&P hold above the weekly pivot at the US close.

Daily charts;

 

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2 hours ago, Caseynotes said:

Hi, no, so when buying a Forward (FX Future) you buy the ask price, on rollover the position is closed at the bid price so you have paid the spread (the difference between the ask and bid). On opening the next contract you pay the ask price again, IG did used to also give a discount for rollovers but not sure if still do.

ok thanks for your reply. so every time the roll over happens i will only have to pay the spread once?

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Hi all just looking for a bit of help regarding the fees acquired for holding long term currency positions? for example on GBPCAD the spread is 12 and is rollovered every quarter....doe this mean for one year it would cost €96 per point to hold the position for 12 months? seems very expensive. any help advice on this would be very much appreciated.

Eg: buy at spread 12 and sell at 12 = 24 / Quarter ?

thanks