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Yes, absolutely. However I found it much more profitable trading lower size, and capturing larger moves. Now that Amazon has been relegated to lower price movement, it seems size may be the only saviour.

When Amazon was trading at over 2000 dollars per share, it was much easier to capture heavy movement, either outright or through spreads. Now with the price trading at 123 or so per share after the split, movement is not sufficient enough to capture such volatile moves. This strategy is all but...

I hope this little fact has not gone unnoticed amongst the general trading community. I always stick with credit spreads, mostly for their ability to often fill at the mid price, as well as reduced risk of course. Therefore my preferred stocks are those priced high, such as Amazon, Google...

Yes the volume is mostly zero for these swaps. However, I do believe there is much OTC activity for these products.

So I am still continuing my research into electricity futures such as PJM, Ercot, Nyiso, Caiso etc. I have discovered that the margins for many of these contracts can be as low as $8. Since these products can be extremely volatile, I am wondering how it can be that these margin requirements...

I am looking at a range of off-peak PJM products on the CME website, and the tick size for these particular markets seems to be 0.05*5*number of off-peak hours in the contract month. Minimum price fluctuation is divided by 0.05, so between 88 and 106 dollars (352-424 off-peak hours depending on...

I am looking at a range of off-peak PJM products on the CME website, and the tick size for these particular markets seems to be 0.05*5*number of off-peak hours in the contract month. Minimum price fluctuation is divided by 0.05, so between 88 and 106 dollars (352-424 off-peak hours depending on...

Thank you.

So in other words, if the price movement of the contract is say from 21 to 26, the difference of 5 is 5*408*5?

Recently I have been analysing some electricity/power futures contracts, and I am attempting to figure out the value of tick sizes etc. In particular the PJM contracts. I have looked at the CME website, but it is not very clear on these particular products. The trading unit, for example, of the...

I am wondering if it would be possible, if one had the money and the risk tolerance of course, to open a million or more options contracts in indexes such as NDX, SPX, Russell 2000 etc. These all have pretty solid liquidity, but of course it depends on the strike price of the option among other...

Welcome to a world of negativity here OP. I would take zero notice of many of the comments here. Well done to you and best of luck for the future. Whenever someone is successful, others will do their level best to discredit and/or find reasons of why a system or strategy will not work in the...

Ok, that is a fair analogy I guess. I'm mostly watching from the sidelines lately, not contributing much to forums and such like, but still watching and analysing the markets. Trading is different for everyone, there is no one size fits all approach, nor strategy. I just found a few of the...

Well Mickey, I am replying as you seek one seemingly so badly. Yes I saw trader221's post, and no I am not particularly interested at this time in getting involved in any potential discussions publicly on this forum, as past experience has taught me it can be a paradise for negativity and...

Indeed that is a valid point.

Does seem to happen a lot on demo accounts, giving a false illusion of profits. I can't work out whether it is deliberate on some brokers part, to draw clients in, or whether it is as you say simply system glitches.

Yes that is what was happening. In the case of Brent/Gasoil spread, the entry price was showing a figure of 600 or something like that, and the last price(bid/ask) was showing the actual Brent crude price of 45 or so at the time. Thus creating an enormous profit immediately.

I was using the Firetip web based demo. Took my account to 34 million in a few days trading mostly futures spreads, which I thought was quite unrealistic. For example the Brent/Gasoil 3:4 ratio crack spread upon opening would show an immediate profit of 1 million +. I have no screenshots at this...

Having tried the Ironbeam demo platform, there are a number of glitches present, such as trades immediately showing massive profit etc. I pointed this out to Ironbeam customer service over a year ago and nothing was ever done about it. I don't think the futures prices, at least in the Demo...

I'm still learning about futures trading and in particular spread trading. What has me confused for awhile now is this...When you see a chart (attached) of a futures spread go from + to -, does this 'add up'? In other words, I have a Silver spread trade between Sep 21 and Dec 21(SIU21-SIZ21)...