Hello,
The VIX & $ Index are two important markets but their volumes seem low.
If you are trading these markets please share your experiences with respect to liquidity, spreads, etc.
I see that the $ Index always has good side bid-offer volume, but actualy daily traded volume is low...
And it required incredible courage, convinction, preparedness, agility to benefit from that fat figure. Plus he had the capital available to participate in the opportunity due to previous successful trades.
As I think atticus is trying to imply, he should be commended ..and we should not...
I don't question that larger returns can be obtained on $1MM as opposed to $10B. I just think that too many new traders focus so much on generating incredible returns that they assume undue risks which prevents them from even having the viability to continue to trade and generate returns of 10%...
That's true Alan Howard is an old Credit Sisse hand...
Alan Howard & Michael Platt teach me three things (that frankly any good trader should have learned form Paul Tudor Jones in the 1990s. Have a laser focus on losses, cut losses quickly, focus on risk management very very strictly...
I mean "new trader" as in traders who came into limelight within the past five to ten years not a brand new rookie trader!
Perhaps Alan Howard of Brevan Howard and Michael Platt of BlueCrest fall into this category of "new traders in the mold of Bacon, etc"?
Thanks ralph, for sharing this wonderful profile. Bacon, Druckenmiller, Jones, Kovner, Soros were the greats that inspired me.
Are there any new traders in the mold of Bacon, Druckenmiller, Jones, Kovner, Soros?
I have an active trading style, so I need to be able to continue trading without any interruption.
If I issue an order to transfer the accounts, can I continue trading in the account pending transfer completion, or must trading end once I issue the request to transfer?
I'm a little...
Hello,
I am thinking of transferring my futures acounts from one FCM to another.
I am curious as to the logisitics of this:
1. How long does this typically take?
2. Do I get charged transfer fees by receiving FCM, transfering FCM or both FCMs?
3. Should I conitnue trading in...
Thanks, heech for the quick response.
No need to be embarrassed.
I know the feeling..the amount of paper work, bureaucratic hassles required of traders for account opening and other issue can be so time consuming and frustrating!
Quick question:
The CME has 106.H which you can get...
Just refreshing this thread as I am considering getting CME membership
Heech, did you ever get the membership? Did you lease or buy? If so , how has your experience been. How was the application process? Are the savings worth it?
Any others who care to share their experiences with CME...
Thank you! I downloaded the program at: http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/its.cfm
and it seems to work. It updates my clock every hour.
Many Thanks!
I was able to change the time interval, but there seems to be no change. My time is still wrong.
I also noticed that if I manualy click on my Windows clokc and try an dmnaually upate the time by synching to time.nist.gov I get a error message: "An error occurred while Windows was...