Recent content by Blinz45

I've been looking at the HSI lately and i'm thinking about trading the MHI. I just have a 2 questions. is the first 15 minutes 945pm eastern time considered premarket ? also for some reason my charting platform's 30 minute chart starts at 945 and goes on 30 minute intervals ending in a 15 and...

Are any of these contracts good for day trading? I heard that gold doesn't always honor trades and will fill your sells lower. Is that still the case? When im saying day trading i don't mean just scalping in and out within a few seconds i mean holding for at least 10 ticks and for a few...

My trading has nothing to do with arbitrage. When i say scalp i dont mean 1-2 pips off chart imbalance. i mean take 5-10 pips on a genuine move. I have a few custom indicators that don't work that well on futures charts thats my biggest problem. futures charts are either way too early of just...

the main problem is that i use tick charts. futures have less ticks then spot and the bars take longer to form and i get in later. i hate time based charts. thats my real dilemma i get better looking charts with spot charts due to a higher tick count but i get the headache of having to deal...

thanks for the responses so far. the main reason i want to trade futures is because i've been through the retail broker bs many times. my current broker is IB and they are an ecn style forex broker but i hear bad things about them. i could just use the IB forex feed and trade futures off that...

I was wondering if anyone knew how well correlated are spot and futures. Can i just trade futures off spot charts? I trade off tick charts and futures charts don't look as good as spot charts and that would mess up my entires. I want to trade futures due to lower spreads, liquidity and...

Since the nymex is raising margin rates i was looking at trading crude oil on ICE instead of the nymex. does anyone know if the spreads and liquidity are pretty much the same as the nymex contract or is it harder to trade on ICE?

Can you recommend a streaming news service? Does anyone know if the Dow Jones newswire is any good for crude news?

Does anyone know a good news service for just crude oil futures. I'm sick of watching oil jump on news while i sit there wondering what happened. Thanks

can anyone answer this please. i'm currently a forex trader and was looking to move into currency futures. how much capital is required per contract? also if say i go long a particular pair and it goes up, how much do i make per pip? Thanks

Can someone give me their experiences with FXDD? I'm currently with another broker that i am not happy with and saw this one. Good and bad welcome. Thanks