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NFA Says: Ten Million Dollars

I just wrote a post about my search for a second Forex firm besides Oanda not long ago.  One of the critical criteria I was looking at was the firm’s capital.  Thanks to the CFTC website which made the research a lot easier.  Coincidentally, I came across a post on the Oanda forum talking about the same topic – the Forex brokers’ net capital rankings.  It also mentioned that the NFA will raise the capital requirement to 10 million dollars in October, which I was not previously aware.  Many thanks to ForexFigure, a senior member on Oanda, for the excellent post.

 

 

EUR/JPY 30/30

Here we go again – another loss of 30 pips.  This month is almost a repeat of last February and it could be worse.

The stop buy of 156.19 was filled at 7:16 AM GMT and in ten minutes or so, we were stopped out.

 

 

EUR/JPY 30/30

We somehow can’t stop the stream of losses.  Today is yet another blow to us.  The stop sell of 155.39 was filled at 9:13 GMT.  The price went as low as 155.21 before it turned north.  It’s another 30-pip loss for us.  We need to get out of this twilight zone fast.

 

 

EUR/JPY 30/30

This is a curse.  We had another loss of 30 pips.  The stop buy order of 150.7 was filled at 7:00 GMT.  All it took was one minute and we were stopped out.  Dreadful!

 

 

EUR/JPY 30/30

It’s a horrible day.  We got stopped out on both sides, a total of loss of 60 pips.  Terrible!

 

 

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