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Breakouts are for the 90's!

I scale both in and out of all futures trades over a very small range of 2-3 ticks. I don't trade equity index but rather bond futures

Bump Lets keep the best thread ever on ET going!

I will admit that I do often punch with futures options. The way that I overcome the spread though is by trading the underlying and use the long option as more of stop loss order. With a lot of futures options the volume numbers don't look very good but remember there is liquidity spilling...

I stopped trading equity options because the market structure heavily favours the market makers. Can you believe that you can't have orders on both sides of the market? You Americans should write your senator to complain. The structure of the US equity options market is just plain un-american. I...

If you want to be first in the queue one way to do it is to put a good to cancel limit order in a about 4:10pm. Not many people do this and you are like to get filled first thing the next morning. Check the futures to make sure you still want the fill. I used to do this all the time with qqqq...

My cousin who is a grain trader just sent me this after a tough week. The AI Report MyAgri Market Commodity Report for the week of Aug 15 - 19 This weeks markets started off steady, but quickly tanked faster then then Mikey McCain could rape the closest hog farmer and his daughter...

Sorry, I should know this stuff cold. (I don't trade either product)

Phil, ES would have a delta of .5 versus the full sized contract (the big contract has a multiplier of 100 and the small one has a multiplier of 50). However if you are trading ES options then of course ES has a delta of one against whatever the options delta is. Thanks for all you help in...

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I use protective puts and calls instead of stops. I find that they eliminate most of the problems that have been mentioned in the previous posts. The downside is of course that you have to pay for this protection. However with the vix around 10 and the tendency of retail option traders to be...

It appears that this is such a poor attempt at pumping and dumping that it doesn't even warrant flaming

Could I please get more information about DBKFX trading, it just came up on my tws today?

You missed Cambridge as well, although maybe you just decided that it didn't need to be on the list

Okay here is what I think. Averaging down is a good thing to do in congested markets(I think the ET word is "chop"). For example if you want to scale in to ES positions between about 11am and 1:30pm (GMT -5) you will be fine most days and take alot of half ticks. However if you were to use the...

"The Secret of my Success", what a great movie!

Did the Chinese tell the terrorist about the revaluation? The pound has been crazy today with retail sales numbers, revaluation, terror and Greenspan. If you wanted to profit by shorting the pound you would probably want to pick a quiet news day so you know that your event will be the one...

Also gold would be more expensive to store

Can you believe the people the Americans send to congress? They sound like buffoons when they argue with Greenspan. It is scary to think that they make important economic decisions.

How are the carry traders making out today? I bet a few of them have had bad days. servant, how are you making out. I feel bad for you today is just about the worst series of events that could of happened to you.