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Visavis wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Do anybody had any ideas on how to maximize the margin being use in
> trading? Example: Margin for British Pound is $1552 while Swiss Franc is
> $1721, both had almost the same amount of margin requirement to trade one
> contract. But British Pound offers the most bang for the buck in which its
> average EOD close is at around 100+ points compared to Swiss Franc which is
> 50+ points and having the same point value at $12.50 each.
Both point values are NOT 12.50. The Pound is 6.25 per point. Both are 12.50
per TICK, but the minimum tick in the Pound is 2 points. So the margin in this
case does accurately represent the "bang for your buck" since the average daily
move in both is $625 per contract.
Eric
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>
> I had read a book "How I triple my Money..." by Ulf Jensen which he
> describe somthing like this by computing the Average Trading Range and
> others...
>
> Do anybody had other easier method?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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> Warm Regards!
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> Visavis
> Visavis@xxxxxxx
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