Recent content by gkksmith

Hi all, I noticed a lot of people seem to prefer trading this contract over others such as ES, can anyone explain why? With a lower margin at my broker and roughly the same range (from my limited experience) as the ES, this seems like a good contract too. Cheers

Hello all, I recently noticed in IB BookTrader, the QuotePanel prices and bid/ask get updated faster than the actual book, most of time I can sense the prices changing first in the quotes then from the side of my eye then I would see the actual book updates. This is espacially noticeable...

Hello all, first post on ET, so greetings! I'm just starting to look into options, and I was just wondering for example, I purchased a Put on ES expiring in Jan 09, for 1000 in my sim account, now it's currently in the money based on today's closing price of 810, since premium was 15, making...