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The CME Group does impose strict messaging limits on Globex. This is a very real concern for high frequency traders. Not just black boxes but screen traders running too many spread tools off the market often do get fined. http://www.cmegroup.com/globex/files/CMEMessagingPolicy.pdf This...

I've got X trader pro; esignal; and think or swim running on an msi u 100 that uses tiny xp as an OS. I use it to build new autospreaders, look at charts on the go, and model option positions in TOS. This netbook is one of my favorite technology purchases of all time! I trade off of it on...

Hi everyone! I wrote this article for an online magazine Friday. Thought I might share it with you all... Short term market volatility frequently accompanies the release of the EIA summary of weekly petroleum data. The report which is released electronically on the EIA website is...

The dollar slid pretty hard over the past 10 days and the crude didn't respond at all. Not even the OPEC headlines could hold this thing up. The last commitments of traders was pretty flat but bias was to the short side. Who and why would anyone at all be selling the spread on...

get short ahead of tomorrows dump off? Complain on other forums? Trade the ES instead?

If you go through the time and sales you can see Friday in the Jan/Feb spread book 31,207 spreads traded with tons of +100 lot trades on the bid in the last hour of the pit session with most of that volume happening in the last 10 minutes. That is against 27,236 trades total in the rest of the...

Anybody notice the huge sells that went through Friday ahead of the close and then again today at the close?

Has anyone else noticed that the financial cable stations are routinely behind the pay news feeds by as much as 10 seconds when it comes to statistical reports like crude inventory? So this question is primarily for the day traders and scalpers out there. Where do you get your news...

Yep... We will all be working for Walmart soon enough. Hooray for the corporate fascist state!