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    Is there a website that shows how many contracts traded for the day?

    I was wondering if there is a website that lists the total volume of contracts that were traded at one time during each day of a emini s&p 500 contract? What I am looking for is not the total of contracts from every single trade put together, but instead the highest period for the day where...
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    What's the name of this order type, forgotten the name!

    Many thanks for the reply MTE Hi nazzdack, Thank you for the explanation, so with this OCO once I placed the limit order to buy, then another OCO with a sell stop - can this sell stop be executed at the market price. Then the sell-limit as a limit order. Is this possible? It's my...
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    What's the name of this order type, forgotten the name!

    I think it's called a stop market order, but let me explain a bit more I want to buy a contract(s) at a limit price, then place a stop market order to get me out at say 10 ticks, but place as well in this same stop order a limit order to trigger if my contract rises above say for example 6...
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    Having a litte trouble understanding maintenance margin?

    Hi Guys, I am new here, please go easy on me It's my understanding that you fund your new brokerage account with some minimum account balance. Let's say $2,000. Then when you want to trade say the emini s&p 500. You then purchase 1 contract at $500 Then the maintenance margin is 75% of...
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