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His motive? He owns alot of stock in Shell and wants those fat profit margins. Cost of extraction and processing don't justify the move.

welcome to the conversation daxdestoyer. i trade the same indexes as you at times...generally spread against ES, NQ, YM or R2k during the early us market.

TT allows you to view your transactions / fills or fills / transactions. i use autospreader all day and live off this as it allows me to stay within the exchnange mandates. as for crossing yourself, use the avoid orders that cross feature or you're gonna have big brother on your doorstep.

I don't think there is one anymore. CBOT offered MB futures ten or so years ago. I don't recall when they stopped.

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Leverage. Options on futures are a derivative of a derivative. You an control, or have rights to, $250,000 worth of stock for a few hundred bucks and your only risk is what you put in (no margin).

We aware of the underying contract you're trading. It sounds like you made some paper trades on thin markets and thin markets in options are very dangerous as the bid ask spread can get real wide.

Live auditions to trade for energy firms. Very cool.

I'm open to discuss. BTW, They have a support website for developers. I haven't spoken with anyone there but you can access sample code on their development support website. The documentation is pretty straight forward http://devnet.tradingtechnologies.com/DevNet/ProductCenter.aspx

as described above. use a slicer. configure it to join the bid with each slice and if the slice is not executed, go to market at the end of the interval. you may beat the closing vwap using this method.

Doesn't your software prevent that? That's one of the first things i learned to use with xtrader. they have a button you can can check in the properties page that prevents you from trading with yourself.

go to the source. tt has a website dedicated to development support. http://devnet.tradingtechnologies.com/DevNet/Downloads/GettingStarted.aspx http://devnet.tradingtechnologies.com/DevNet/ProductCenter.aspx

Sydney Futures Exchange has the SPI 200 Index and the Tokyo Commodity Exchange has the TOCOM Futures Index. The Singapore Exhange has Hang Seng. There's always an active index somewhere.

That's they way I see it as well. I'm using a 5 ES / 12 VM ratio....today the first attempt and I'm wondering about my ratio...on a tic per tic basis i'm $60 per side now, but es tick soo much more, it's opening up a lot of opportunity.

I've been playing around with a spread between CBOE VIX futures vs. CME emini futures. Anyone else in that arena? Any thoughts on this?

cme is a great source too. http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/fx/ http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/fx/files/FX-199_OptionsTraderHandbook.pdf

Sheldon Natenberg has an excellent book. http://www.amazon.com/Option-Volatility-Pricing-Strategies-Techniques/dp/155738486X

I don't know much about the bespoke db but i've used zacks for ten years and recommend it. good screener, good tools, good price point. zacks rank is a derivative of the zacks indicator which was created the the company founder when he was doint work toward his phd. it's based on earning...

Drag and drop from the QRM screen? Are you talking about managing open orders? can i grab and order and reprice it? and do they not have a dom at all. im worried about using a dom with moving prices. i prefer when the order book moves and the price ladder does not.

30 seconds to enter an order? you've got to be kidding. that can't be right. any why don't you like the dom? does it jump around or stay in one place?