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I think it should be clarified here that there is a big difference between derivatives contracts with a clearing house as the counterparty and contracts where another bank or insurance company is the counterparty (OTC). The clearing house has a large pool of capital to draw on and forces...

Here's something I found that should be of interest to all who trade forex. Regulatory ambiguity resulting from the Zelener decision is one of the major issues the CFTC is addressing in its reauthorization this year. The NFA and forex firms weigh in. When the Commodity Futures Trading...

Here my take on CAD. The Canadian dollar is tied to a better economy than any of the major currencies. Both a trade and government surplus, neutral oil exposure (although a perceived positive exposure) and strong consumer demand from consumers that have not destroyed there balance sheets like...

I love scaling in and out of my treasury futures position in the overnight market. Let say I want to be long three futures. I will put limit orders in at one point down from the 5pm close, down 1.5 and down 2 points. I want to make at least on point from each trade so if I get all three filled I...

Okay cloned from god, I am suggesting that you use futures to offset you option position during the night. Once you option is in the money you can reduce you overall risk by taking the opposite position in the underlying. Say you bought a put on the euro dec futures with a strike of 1.2000 at...

I think that your system may work just as well on the short side. There are not many nights were going short at any price above the 4:15 close and trying to buy back for a half point would not of worked by 9:30 open on ES. When you say "futures never go down overnight at least not with any...

Boy when people start saying things like this it make me think that there is a trading bubble

Hold the presses!!! I just came up with an IDEA! What if you put out a limit order during the overnight session so that it the future rises above the strike price of you call you can offset the position with a short future! You could even make it a bracket order so you can buy it back at a...

This is for those of you who have been trading Eurodollars for a long time. I am currently long a spread dec 06/march 07. I bought for -0.10 and it is currently at -0.30. Historically what is the biggest inversion ever seen with eurodollar futures? How large did the inversion get during the last...

I am really curious if the open interest on ES went up our down today. I am pretty sure it went down on short covering.

At Christmas time people like to decorate their houses. Often they will put fake snow and lights around their windows. portfolio managers are the same. At the end of every quarter they window dress their portfolios by buying stocks and driving the markets up.

With the VIX at about 12 and equity markets that tend to retrace itself over and over I feel that using a long option to limit risk is far better than using stop loss orders. There are thousands of posts here complaining about "chop", meaning that that people keep getting stopped out before...

With IB 1000 shares carries a $5 commission. With Scottrade 1000 shares is $7. You should only trade 100 shares at a time anyways until your really good. With IB 100 carries a $1 commission. Also with IB you get direct access to the market. IB ever shows you how they route your order. With...

you guys maybe doing enough trading that you could get hooked up with a firm that offers rebates from ECNs. Although if you are good and trading that much you should really look at prop trading.

I can't help but think that Christmas spending will hold up as consumers destroy their balance sheets. This could lead to a severe drop in consumer spending in 2006 as people get their credit card and heating bills at the same time.

Have a look at the calendar folks, it is not 1999. If you want do make money trading you have to make money from "noise" Market simply to not run and trend very much. Beside your drawdown and trading stats will look much better if you make your money by squeezing out ticks in sideways market...

You guys may find this hard to believe but IMHO the best thing to trade out side of bank hours in the Teeswater time zone (eastern) is the mini S&P 500 future (ES). Here's how. Buy both a put and a call at about 4pm. Now trade the in the evening until you get sleepy. Use bracket orders...

Okay but think about this. Since the stock only has to move half as far to get out at a profit as it does to make a loss is it not twice as likely to get to a profit first?(Although you do need risk management, I think stops are a poor way to do it) Why would anyone trade with Scottrade? All...

If this keeps up I am going to build a terminal for LNG at Hudson's Bay Port and build a pipeline heading to major markets.

I not sure that refco has all the bucket shop characteristics but I am pretty sure that they provide all the liquidity internally. I will ask you since you have traded with them although I think I know the answer; are you allowed to split the spread?