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good volume. I like the Micro NQ best, especially if your trading involves scaling up or down:

light volume and open interest on PA future options but you may be able to use futures with options strategy to hedge some of the risk. Be happy to help:

it was posted/settled into the software at 7:22 Am pacific but all instruments stopped trading at 630 AM

Yes to the best of my knowledge on quarterly expiration or what we call Quadruple witching ( futures, futures options, stock options and single stock futures all expire) there are no weekly options for that Friday. So tomorrow all expire 930 Am est I am very familiar with the GAIN platform, if...

All is good EXCEPT both futures and options expire at 9:30 AM EST There is a special settlement price the CME publishes before 10 AM EST and based on that BOTH futures and Dec. quarterly options are settled.

Hogs and Live cattle are good markets for swing trading as well as options in my opinion. Not so much for short term trading.... At this point a break above 71.55 basis the February contract can start a short covering rally:

Yes, you can be long the ES and be short the MES and that is legit and fine with exchanges, brokers and regulators.

I like using our FREE order entry software which allows me to easily program preset exit strategies that may a bit advanced with multiple exits, trailing stops and more but you can set it up very easily....

Ever since the Trump Tweets phenomena...I have been using this tool to read out his real time tweets with digitized voice just in case...like last Thursday with China deal....

Heiken -Ashi are very nice visually and do help filter out some noise but if you are backtesting, be careful as they have an inherent look back affect which will make results much better than they really are....

Excellent for: 1. Transition from demo to live, so now you can go demo > MICROS> large contracts 2. For traders who like scaling in and out 3. testing new strategies 4. Long term positions 5. If you really hate stops, you can take opposite positions to lets say short 1 ES with long 5 MICRO ES at...

Almost all good trading platforms/charting software will offer a S/R tool. I like the following 3 below BUT I actually draw mine manually based on levels Publish daily. CQG Sierra Charts: And our free software, E-Futures Int'l EFI

It all depends on some stats, mainly worst drawdown? max single loss?

Rollover is today officially. I personally dont change to March until tomorrow/Monday when the volume on March is higher than December. Right now the Dec. volume still higher.

Good to see you diversifying with longer term/ swing trades using the MICROS. Stick to your game plan.

Great market, not too many US clients know of, good liquidity. I like the market as long as there is volume. Looks like 2 Am EST to about 6 AM EST.

We offer $1000 daytrading margins for crude oil futures. Multiple platforms.

go live with 1 or 2 micros and get a feel for what percent of the time you get filled and how the times you are not affect he model. if good move to 1 ES and progress. what software you use to design system?

Should be more than fine with liquidity, the question is the other assumption for the model, avg profit target? what happens if you factor in commissions/slippage of $10 or so etc.

As we see natural gas prices trading just above 2.50 per one million British Thermal Units (MMbtu), basis the Jan. NYMEX futures contract, it’s good to keep in perspective that the U.S. has been the largest producer of natural gas in the world since 2006 and in 2018 it achieved new record highs...