Recent content by Ryan58

If you are interested in trading Silver Futures, you can trade the full-sized silver contract with $1,500 day trading margins. The full overnight margin on silver is currently $11,000 per contract. Please note that the leverage associated with futures is extremely high and with increased...

I would request time and sales from the broker as well as a trade log. Most online trading platform keep a log of not only all trades but all key strokes and mouse clicks made on the trading platform. Many of these logs are erased at the end of the day so be sure to do this ASAP.

The floor traders definitely had a significant advantage before electronic trading gave retail investors the ability to place their own trades from their PC. Now many of the floor operations are extremely thin; especially those with an electronic counterpart. The most robust pits are still the...

Futures contracts roll because you are trading a speculative contract on the underlying commodity. When you trade the March Emini S&P, you are speculating where the underlying contract will be priced at expiration in March.

Sierra Chart offers a cheap alternative. They are $24.00 per month and you can het the markets you are interested. I know they work with TransAct Futures and Infinity Brokerage.

I think it is very difficult to tell who is doing what from just looking at a Level II screen. When looking at the bid/offer volume, there is no way to get an accurate picture of what is going on because you don't know how many of those orders are legitimate and how many or going to be...