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................Grandpa, please tell me more about these people known as "floor traders"...................

Keep both eyes on the put option. If the Dow Jones "dips" hard, the implied volatility on your straddle will explode and give you some sleepless nights. Historically, October is one of the worst performing months for the market. Maybe history won't repeat itself for your sake.

Oh God! Stop trading!! The 10-year note futures contract has a 6% coupon. The cash 10-year note you're looking at has a smaller coupon. They're both priced in such a way to provide nearly identical total returns. If you bought one and sold the other, you wouldn't earn any money.

What are they doing? They're looking at the Fed Funds contract to determine what they should do.

Hmmm, interesting products...............Hopefully they'll make for good contrary indicators. High trading volume should occur at price extremes that correspond to the S&P and Dow Jones.

So, you're really up ~50% the past six months? Anyway, If you're doing that well, you don't need to waste your time accumulating additional news and information. Just keep executing your system. As you do better, you'll want to avoid CFD's. You can trade other instruments more cheaply.

KC Wheat is "harder", it has more protein per bushel.........I think

Your brokerage firm should know about stuff like that. If they don't, ditch them.

According to the Fed Funds contract, Sep & Oct should remain at 3.5%. Nov is expected to be at 3.75%. March or April could see another tightening to 4.0%.

FADER.................From a floor trading perspective, there are four categories of traders. "CTI1" are locals. "CTI2" are commercials. "CTI3" are brokers. "CTI4" is speculators. Generally, locals transact between 70%-80% of daily volume. Commercials do 10%-15%. Brokers do no more than 5%...

............NO BEGGING!!!!!.........................

This might seem like "confirmation of the obvious" but daytraders are responsible for transacting ~80% of daily trading volume. The large speculative and commercial traders are responsible for the ~15% of daily trading volume that MOVES THE MARKET. When the market is moving, then you know that...

Translation------"Small crops get smaller & big crops get bigger"

Ticker symbol----RMS?

Confirmation of the Obvious....................(1) Focus more on what your system has produced recently in the lower-volatility environment that we're in. What happened 2, 5, 10 or 15 years ago may not occur again for a long time. (2) Regarding the percentage-of-profitable-trades "number", of...

Stop wasting your time. Like you said--------"the markets are arbitraged fairly". Therefore there's no "free money" to be earned. If you're focused on currency movements, concentrate on trading currency instruments instead.

It would be a shame to take the loss now right before the big seasonal repatriation rally that takes place usually around October.

Volume Proxies???...............(1) You can estimate volume by way of the "TPO Count" off of the Market Profile. (2) I don't remember the precise name of it but the CBOT had/has something called the "CTI" page. It shows an intraday breakdown of volume by the four primary market participants...

For shorter-term trading, an arithmetic scale is fine. For the longer-term, give consideraion to using a log scale. It can "compress" parabolic movements and give a better representation of larger trends.

Freddie..................is your last name Goldenberg or Hehmeyer?