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Keep it up, Tony. Learning to spread trade correctly is truly a valuable skill to learn. I welcome all constructive inquiries and questions.

Intercommodity spreads like ZF H6 vs ZN H6 (the FYT), or ES vs NQ will almost always use the front month, since these are spreads between highly correlated (both statistically and fundamentally) but different instruments, and the product's open interest and traded volume will be dominated in the...

Tony, here's some more information on the implied treasury spreads: https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/files/Treasury_ICS__Take_a_Closer_Look_July_2010_FINAL.pdf http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/intercommodity-spread.html I would suggest that you watch the webinar...

New CBOT Treasury Futures Price Ratios for the March 2016 Contract, effective Sunday November 15 open for trade date Monday November 16: http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/files/ics-ratios-2016-03.pdf

Tony, you are correct in stating that there is a very large population of spread combinations. We segregate our inter and intramarket spread combinations by product and spread type (calendar pair, butterfly, condor, etc.) - and that makes the task more manageable. We also have some rules with...

New client webinar distributed today.

Probably the most useful thing that in retrospect I had done was to backup my program files, pictures, documents, downloads, etc. directly to an external backup 4TB HD (not using a third party program, just copied over). In the end, both Acronis and Macrium images proved unstable, and I ended...

Call the TT help line and ask them if they know of a Chicago FCM that satisfies all those requirements. My WAG is that you might need more of an investment bank omnibus account or New Edge (Soc Gen) - which has a multi-million dollar minimum.

I would like to welcome another long time ET'er and options trader to my program. He hails from the great state of Texas.

I encourage my clients to start out trading one lots live and to to lever from there. We also talk about levering when your account capitalization and trading record improvement dictate it. Clients will typically have a few to several positions on at once and in just about any product suite...

Well, you have senior lawmakers on both sides of the aisle with long standing ties to the CME. Which means that CME will be given a chance to clean things up for themselves before the CFTC steps in. I personally think it's a bit of a red herring to draw attention away from the HF electronic...

2016 Natural Gas Butterfly was a very quick hitter.:) 2016 Grain Butterflies have been languishing in a trading range for a few weeks now, but are starting to move our way.

I would like to welcome a new client to my training rotation. You know who you are ( long-time ET'er )

IMHO it would be tough for an individual trader to link specific spoofing circumstances as a direct causal link to their own financial harm. Not to mention embarrassing as hell too.

I would suggest going to the CME website and trying to search for listed electronic member firms. Once you get that list, you can google their names and look for a website with contact information.

I copied all of my files ( Windows 7 Pro 64x ) to an external hard drive, started with a clean steel internal HDD, installed W-10, installed all programs and drivers fresh via downloads or flash drive, then copied over personal program files from the external drive. So, for example, I...

I heard my old firm, International Trading Group / DE Trading in Glenview IL, closed very recently. They started in 1997 and were one of the most prominent Chicago prop firms.

There's been a great deal of upheaval in the Chicago Futures Prop business model the past several years. Firms (especially Goldenberg-Hehmeyer) used to train newbies - now, nobody does that I am aware of. Don't expect another trader to teach you anything - quite the opposite. Most of these...

There's been a great deal of upheaval in the Chicago Futures Prop business model the past several years. Firms (especially Goldenberg-Hehmeyer) used to train newbies - now, nobody does that I am aware of. Don't expect another trader to teach you anything - quite the opposite. A firm like DRW...

I have recently found out (the hard way of course) that images and backups (both Acronis and Macrium Reflect), even if tagged as "successful" by the third party software provider, can be very chippy when attempting to restore them back to your internal HDD.