What can happen ? Can i loose more than the start capital ?
If you ever get to pos size = 2,500 on US Tech 100, you would need 2,500 x 625 = 1,562,500 as Margin in order to even place the trade. This is assuming you are a Retail Trader at 5% Margin.
Surely you not want to lose 1,562,500 … even if you already have it??
(Hope my coffee has worked through and my maths is correct?) 🙂
Such things, you will not find out by backtesting. You need you a Demo Account in order to demonstrate how it all works.
You need to enable your Demo Account, it is a setting in on the IG Platform if I recall correctly.
Sure, i don’t want to loose 1,562,500… even if i have them. True!
But i don’t want either to earn them on demo account and then, when it would run for real on a real account, no more gain because not working anymore… 🙂
So i prefer to test the bot for real in a real account. I am already ready to become rich and if it does not work i am ready o loose 3000€ too 🙂
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