{"id":403898,"date":"2024-08-10T14:39:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T07:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/library\/philosophy\/2024\/08\/cti-weekend-trading-no-chance\/"},"modified":"2024-08-24T13:22:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T06:22:03","slug":"cti-weekend-trading-no-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/prop-trading-firms\/2024\/08\/cti-weekend-trading-no-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"CTI Weekend Scalping: not really"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>since i qualified for a live account with <a href=\"\/ib\/citytraders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CTI<\/a>, i decided to give the weekend trading a test.<\/p>\n<p>which immediately turned out to be a total failure with a <strong>145-156 USD Spread on BTCUSD<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/swingfish.nullx8.com\/swingfish\/blog\/2024\/08\/Screenshot_2.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17700 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/swingfish.nullx8.com\/swingfish\/blog\/2024\/08\/Screenshot_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>compared to the spread on ICMarkets of just 13-15 USD, my sell is already breaking even<br \/>\nthe <a href=\"\/ib\/citytraders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CTI<\/a> position (open at the same price) is still in a 0.08% loss.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17702\" src=\"https:\/\/swingfish.nullx8.com\/swingfish\/blog\/2024\/08\/Screenshot_41-640x389-1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swingfish.nullx8.com\/swingfish\/blog\/2024\/08\/Screenshot_41-640x389-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cdn.nullx8.com\/cdn\/0x8.in.th\/wp\/2024\/08\/Screenshot_41.jpg 696w\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p>later the buys are 0.4% in profit while the same buys on CTI are barely breaking even.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>weekday positions on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/ib\/citytraders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">City Traders Imperium<\/a> are executed quite well, but the commissions are quite high, making scalping a bit &#8220;difficult&#8221; but not impossible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>since i qualified for a live account with CTI, i decided to give the weekend trading a test. which immediately turned out to be a total failure with a 145-156 USD Spread&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":403897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-403898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prop-trading-firms","tag-0x8-trading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403898"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404587,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403898\/revisions\/404587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}