Recent content by Patrick Rooney

These are each managed through futures contracts and as the futures contracts rise, or fall the case of UGAZ, the ETF will rise. Investment of the funds could be pure futures or a combination for futures and options. Where you get bit here is the transaction cost of rolling the contacts. If...

I've never traded copper but have watched it for years. Looking at a chart tonight, I'm glad I don't trade it as I couldn't find a directional trade in here to save my life and I imagine vol is so low that writing options is of little relative value.

Liquidity is coming along and it's average over 10,000 fills for the past several days.

Not much to talk about as it rarely trades.

The Australian Dollar is knows as the aussie while the New Zealand Dollar is referred to as the kiwi in my FX trading circles. At CME their symbols are 6A for aussie and 6N for kiwi.

CME offers futures on both the aussie and kiwi and they have a crossrate offering for the pair. You'lll find more liquidity creating a synthetic spread between the two futures than you will in the listed crossrate however.

Volume swells at the open an close because many model based traders wish to capture the opening or closing price as that is what their historical model returns are based upon. As they may model on end of day data, they try and trade these prices. The traders are often bench-marked on capturing...

Glad to hear that Rum Runner.

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Rum Runner, I'm the X_TRADER Product Manager at Trading Technologies. Hopefully your issue has been resolved. If it has not, please contact our support desk. Regards, Patrick