IG Markets Margin Rate Changes

It’s Good Friday today so I will be taking a break. Nevertheless, just thought I will share this email that I received from IG Markets yesterday.

It seems that they have increased the margin requirements for some counters in view of current market volatility. Seems that institutions are doing as much as they can to reduce their exposure in line with the current credit crisis.

Stuart McPhee on Developing a Trader’s Mindset

I kind of liked Stuart McPhee’s first day lecture on money management, so I decided to fork out some money to attend his second lecture titled “Developing a Trader’s Mindset”. Just to recap, Staurt attributes 60% of a successful trader to his psychology, 30% to his money management and 10% to his system. Thus, this […]

Richard Kang on Becoming a Full Time Trader

Another session that I attended during the Asia Trader and Investor Conference is a talk by Richard Kang (江来泉) on “What you should prepare if you intend to trade full time in futures market?” Richard is a professional trader and Senior Market Strategist from NextVIEW Group. He’s a regular contributor to various publications such as […]

Stuart McPhee on Trading Money Management

On the first day of the ATIC, I attended mainly the free sessions. One of them that I attended is “Money Management” conducted by Stuart McPhee, a professional trader from Australia and editor of “The Traders Journal”. Money management is one of the three pillars to trading success, the other two being your psychology and […]