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Everything mentioned by others is true, but no one has mentioned the flagship NYMEX NG contract that does trade electronically on the CME Globex platform. ICE offers both physical and financial natural gas contracts, but the size of the financial is roughly 7.5 times the size of the NYMEX...

Yes, definitely demo trade first so you get used to the market jumping 50 cents to 2.00 literally in seconds and sometimes all at once in one massive order. Nkhoi's right, you can use pretty much any front end to trade futures, but Ninja is supposed to be decent and I think they offer demo...

I haven't been there, but I hear Panama is the hotspot in Central America right now. Costa Rica is nice, but perhaps a bit more expensive. I am not sure which would have more reliable internet service, but that ought to be a key component in your decision making process.

I was off a few days...yes, today.

Yes, one business day...if you haven't covered yet you'll be offset at today's settle of 97.88.

The CL contract goes off the board on Monday and the QM terminates one day prior, so trading halts today (I believe at 2:30 PM EST, but you'd have to confirm that with the exchange). If you leave open a position it will be financially settled against today's settlement price in the CL contract...

I had the same problem, but it seems to be fixed, so it should be back up and running for you now...

Jag kan prata svenska...kan ni?

I got my series 3 and worked with a broker for a few years and learned a lot about trading. Take the ET pessimism with a grain of salt...

95% is the statistic I hear cited most often for those who "don't make it", and my definition would be people who leave trading for one reason or another: loss of capital, emotional drain, the thrill is gone, employment is terminated, etc.

No shitting on Pickens here--I actually like the guy--I just said he gets free publicity from the media with which to talk his book. How many times did the market take off after Boone came out with one of his predictions for new highs in oil? You think he might have been long when he said it...

It's called backwardation and typically implies a shortage of the commodity in the near term as compared to the contracts further out the curve. The opposite is contango and it implies more of a supply constraint further out the curve...this is also called a normal market due to the cost of...

Matt Simmons is a quack and has been out talking his book for year's on the media's dime, just as T. Boone has...$300/bbl. oil is a long way off and so is peak oil, in my opinion.

This guy is a tool...all his threads should go to chit-chat.

What is "sb"?

Ha ha, you beat me to the punch. Just from the thread title I knew it was stock_trad3r reincarnate--he just couldn't honor his promise to the ET community...

My last two brain cells are in an argument...please enlighten me on why gold dropped and what we are all too stupid to figure out. While you're at it, why did natural gas plunge ~30% in a month?

...by yourself, I am guessing.

Couldn't have said it better myself...

They talked about it on the radio and then segued into a Boone Pickens story by saying "surely any search result would include a lot of results for this guy" so when I pulled up cuil.com that was the first thing that popped to mind...and there were no results found...