Recent content by elitetrader02

Traders with neutral trading strategies shut down their books same with market makers market makers for the mot part are neutral traders. no taking positions over the weekend for stocks or futures. now. rare to see futures gap down or up alike this. afterhours I suspect very little liquidity...

the exhange can bust trades if the trades were too wide. and your .01 bid was actually filled. when the ask was $1 they bust it. they had to shut it down. it's not a market when bid is .01 and ask is $1 thatis BS market. as they say or broken market. or no market.

So is China going to ban US airlines from flying into their country if the virus in US spreads out of control? it was only 4 weeks ago ,there was zero infected.and only 3 weeks ago,,feb 20 all time high on the market. how three weeks changed..mutual funds still have not sold anything. and still...

lot of market makers and professional s are closed and told to work from home. you cannot have a market with no participants.

I guess the central banks wants people to borrow money 'cheap' to buy their inflated assets? real estate and stocks still overvalued and expensive in this so called 'crash' what crash. the market is same price as it was in 2019..tsla stocks still ripoff and same with many stocks real estate...

professional traders or instittuioal and market makers are not trading this market.okay its too illiquid and volatile to trade,,why you think they halted it. you don't have trade or buy or sell in this BS 'market.'

USD has increased in value so $33 is same as $50/barrel. for exporters of oil who take USD for payment. it's not 'cheap' it's US and Cananadian high cost producers who are screwed. US and Canadian oil sand producers are high cost and cost is in USD. the USD strenght has increase 30% from the...

nobody has to buy or own stocks. or sell their stocks. there is no cash to buy all stocks if everyone wanted to sell...only 1% of the shares are traded on the 'float' or less okay go figure.. these companes can always issure more shares if they want cash. this is the reason wall street or powers...

all futures trades are 'settled' at end of day. the market makers of the futures ran out of cash to trade. they had to wire the money to their clearing house. and fed had to print new cash to wire it.. 10% crash is more than lock limit 10% for the index is not normal...at all. market orders...

traders lost money on Gold 'today investors of gold with cash have not lost a dim. okay gold is like cash or traded and owned like a commodity these funds buy with all cash and no leverage on gold

IB is a market maker in 'normal markets' I think they closed their books as alll their market making books don't work in these illiquid volatile markets especially in options. options are pretty illiquid. in futures and stocks. how these market makres make a living dealing in options. they...

cause they won't be chasing you for your losses in gaps or illiquid markets.