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Totally unacceptable- I just got a 3 pip slippage on stop with USD/CAD in a slow market. Get your act together. Somebody needs to check the software to make sure everything is OK.

If you want to make you living as a trader on IB or any other retail platform you cannot trade US (SEC regulated) equity options. If you get a fill you have paid the gatekeeper to get it. With all their rules;open orders on one side only, cancel fees, no one but designated market makers are to...

I have to disagree. Would there be the same amount of volume on listed stocks if all the trading was done on the floor and there were no ECNs? Different exchanges respond to the needs of trades and in doing so increase overall volume. Your point is more valid when it comes to the indexes...

I think if you take in all consideration into account 7:30 to 2:30 is probably ideal. The problem is that New York thinks it is the center of the world, when really there are three spheres of influence in the trading world, with Asia and Europe being the others.

Don't forget about the smaller spread in the pit. Trading QM is just lining up to be scalped- you only get a fill when someone else has made a profit from your order. It could be a cost advantage for a hedger. If they don't pay pit commissions and get screwed on their order. But for traders...

You could buy a 70 call to limit risk and then sell your underlying stock. If you get a pullback you could then either buy the stock again or buy back your short call at a better price. Does the stock pay a dividend?

The moderators should remove this thread right now. It has no place on ET.

If you were honest about yourself a realized that is the way you are you could cope with yourself much better than if you armed yourself with science and thought you knew everything about the world based on you little equations. Do you really think those charts you see in econ 101 will help you...

Dumping dollars from the sky

Learning classical and academic economics will doing nothing towards helping you make predictions about the way the world's economy works. academics take economics and try to make it fit within the scientific method. The really world is much more dynamic and requires you to use multiple methods...

Sorry to plug Soros again (maybe someone will accuse me of being him) but the best reading I have ever done on currencies is in his book "The Alchemy of Finance".

Has the problem with QM charting been fixed yet? In the past when I opened a QM chart my computer would freeze and I would have to restart it. How about QG-do those charts work.

I think it is the pit symbol for ZT or two year US government bonds. Unless you are taking a currency position it would seem like a Chinese hedge to me

Lobster, Don't give up now. Not many days are like yesterday. I hate days like that. I like days when the market trades over a small range, constantly retracing itself. I think you scalping system will work really well if used during the right time of day. You need to wait until the market...

I'm long $C, hoping for a pop this afternoon

Just a warming about Eurex volume. From my experience trading the Schatz it seems that aa lot of the volume comes from trades negotiated over the phone and then report to the exchange. Many times my one lot order would be preference around and the chart would show a volume spike. The liquidity...

I am some where in between the two. On a $3000 account I have had many weeks in a row of $600-$700 profits. I give some of that back when the markets breakout and gave a lot back during the hurricane. Before I started trading ZF I had worked at swifttrade and traded QQQQ backspreads. However on...

For ZF I trade between 2 and 5 round trips on average plus an option trade depending on what the market is giving me. i don't like risking more than $800 per trade. I also tend to trade more contracts closer to expiry. I trade $C as well making maybe 3-5 trades a day on average. I need...

I trade the ZF (future on 5 year US Government bonds) quite successfully without ever risking more than $1000. To do this I buy an option to limit my downside. Sometime I will trade ES when the options are close to expiry, when insuring my downside is cheaper. The other thing you need to do if...

Some thought on $C. Who need to buy $C. Well with Canada running a dual surplus alot of Canadians need to buy $C. As I have said before my grain hedging buddies do not have enough $C. This is because they remember a $0.63 Canadian dollar and are looking for a pull back. I would imagine that a...