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Re: Worn_Buffet post# 11222

Thursday, 06/14/2007 3:56:35 PM

Thursday, June 14, 2007 3:56:35 PM

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Spreads (commissions) will kill ya if you are doing more than a couple transactions a day.

If you think about it. If you're trading 10,000 blocks and trade in and out of 5 positions per day at 2 pip spread that is $20/day. $20/day * 200 days is $4,000. That will eat into your P&L real quick. Of course if you're only getting 3 pips average spread it gets worse, plus you are probably trading larger blocks.

So "scalping" for 5 pips (if that's what you are doing) ends up being bad business. Scalping for 10 pips isn't that much better either.

Watch prior to Nov 4th


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