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I traded 8 ES minis yesterday morning and was COMPLETELY wrong -- first time in a long time I was 100% off in my analysis. Took a decent loss, hit my stop, and was done for the day. Didn't even do a trend-following buy in the afternoon to avail myself of the PM buying spree, waiting for the...

"Breaking News" = what passes for "news" IS broken these days. :(

With the exception of fixed stops on an ER2 and ES shorts yesterday morning, I went manual....too much weirdness to leave it to the computers to figure out. My technical signals provider generated a buy signal at 0930 and instead the ES went down hard and my order never got filled. So...

Geebus....knowing how GOOG moves, that sounds like a hell of a risk -- though the potential reward might be worth it. How tight are your wings on those spreads, and is this something you do Fri morning, or at the 1559 moment before close? Reminds me of a chat I had with someone @ my gym a...

You're thinking a rate hike instead? Anything otherwise (no cut/some cut) I think will be bad for the USD....

No kidding....though it's more like "just go long and have sensible stops" :)

Ok, then it wasn't me --- there really isn't any liquidity on that contract. At least I know I'm not crazy when I saw the lack of volume! Supposedly we're getting N-225 and HSI futures next month, which will suit me just fine. Thx for the clarification, all!

Greetings -- At the moment, the only Asian index future offered at my broker is the S&P Asia 50 contract. I've looked at the CME site, downloaded the S&P brochure for the contract, and just started paper trading it to see how it acts. I bought one SP5Z7 (Dec) contract for at $4040.50...

I think if the Fed holds or cuts rates, fx will be a good trade for a day or longer since the message would be that it's still okay to short the dollar. As would gold. The major indicies might get a short-term bounce for a day or two, but I don't think it'd hold for a longer term.

OptionsXpress lets you papertrade a bunch of minis w/o funding an account

So what's everyone doing/thinking going into the FOMC next week? I trade fx futures now and then.....so as for me, right now I'm torn between going long on the JY and EC now and/or have similar long orders queued up to fire IF a decision comes out to cut rates. Same goes for the DX. I...

I'm an IT consultant and I have a hard time believing that Vista is such a blowout seller that they made it out to be. NOBODY I know is using it, and many retail folks buying PCs recently have trashed Vista and installed XP. At least 1 USG agency I know of refuses to run it, and if they...

Again, I could do something with single stock futures.......buy 1 ISRG SSF and buy an ATM/ITM put. As long as the spot price of ISRG rises past the price of the put, the it's all green - but the 340 put is $23.20 and that's a bit costly given what I suspect might be a soon-to-appear short-term...

join the club -- i had a bunch of long calls on it back in july and closed it going into earnings.....at which point it exploded and I'd missed a $50K profit. now it's still on fire, but i am hesitant to dive in, given how much everyone is paying attention to it nowdays....but sure looks strong!

I'd feel better playing the NQ futures.....BIDU, like GOOG or AAPL should move the futures and you can trade it after-hours. :)

You know it's bad when the Put Chains only go down to $50, and they're all ITM......wonder if laying on some bear call spreads might not be a bad idea on these guys.

FBI raided 'em in an investigation into stuff. Run the ticker symbol thru Google or Yahoo Finance to get the full skinny, but it ain't pretty for them!

I tend to do earnings on a lower-risk directional gamble rather than try and profit from either direction. IE, I bought an AMZN SSF and an ATM put. They moved in tandem; if AMZN exploded up, my breakeven was the SSF cost + price of the put. Anything higher and it was profit. In this...

Though you need an Intel (ugh!) - based Mac to run bootCamp or Paralells Workstation, it won't work on PowerPC G4 or G5 systems.

Hey --- it's never bad to take profits and preserve capital!!!!