Recent content by elpepelucho

So any more opinions here ? It seems volume died down before xmas and just never recovered. It's making trading very difficult for me, and slippage is up. Does anyone know if it's just TF or if other contracts are also way down in volume ? Maybe everybody's out waiting to see what the...

Hi y'all, I've been trading TF (russell 2k on ICE) and have been having an issue of slippage. I have my profit target set as a limit order, and sometimes (specially recently) the price will hit but my order wont fill. Since my strategy hit its target, even if I am not filled, I'll...

mmm, I stand corrected, I just looked and they do indeed charge short of $5 per roundtrip on TF. I think I just hadn't noticed yet since they were ICE was discounting their fees for the first few months in order to lure traders back. thanks for the replies !

nope, I am absolutely certain that tradestation's total cost is a bit less than $2.50 roundtrip. Been trading through them for years, so I know. If you doubt it, go to their website and check out their futures commissions. They claim to have one of the cheapest. Not cheerleading for...

mmm, maybe I dont understand something. According to Mirus, they charge about $4 per round turn trade (enter and exit). Tradestation charges $1.25 per side, so total of about $2.50 per rountrip. or do I have the wrong figure with mirus ? I signed up for a demo account, and was...

I'm wondering if anyone can offer an opinion about platform : I currently use tradestation to trade TF (used to trade ER2 before going kaput). I am thinking about moving to Ninja/Zenfire since I hear it might have better fills, but it seems Mirus' commissions are twice what I pay with...

Parliaments ? No self respecting trader would smoke those ! gay.

I don't know if it's just me, but it seems that this last week the bid ask spreads were a lot more reasonable and less jumpy.

Dell 24" and 22" monitors, dell 17" laptop, macbook pro, ergotron monitor arms, anthrocart desk.

Has anyone had a chance to test TT or zen with ICE's new mini russell (TF) ?

the funny thing is, volume is lower than even before the ICE switch, this contract traded under ICE before the switch, and after it has lower volume than it used to have. It just doesn't add up, either everybody who traded ER2 deserted the russell2000 or no one is trading until this economic...

Yea, but that has more to do with market conditions than then symbol

thanks for all the feedback everybody, at least your opinions are making me feel better about this. I was bumming hard since I was starting to suspect that I would have to give up a strategy that took me 2 years to develop just because of a lousy exchange switch. I plan on keep trading for...

faith4more, what are you using to trade ? my connection is quite fast, and I'm trading through Tradestation which is also quite fast. I discovered that part of my slippage issues are due to a setting I have on my automated trading system in TS - if the limit exit is hit but my order...