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More details would be helpful understanding what you refer to.

@ironchef, LMFAO

poorboy, 'Experts' don't do paper money trading. If you are proud of your skills, then keep going. You won't do any money but at least will be proud of yourself.

To be more precise, that 'Trade' of 16000 contracts was an Order of 16000 contracts that got filled on multiple trades, or transactions. Happened at 13:21:14 that day. You won't see a single print (or trade or transaction) of 16000 contracts.

I do use it. Works like a charm. I have 1 computer with 3 screens that I use for trading and 1 computer with 1 screen for development.

I got your point, but you're comparing apple with orange IMO.

You made a mistake, and that happens. You lost a few bucks, and that happens. You got screwed, and that happens. Now what? You want to continue spending time trying to get your money back? I wouldn't do it, not worth it. But if it is for you, then fine, keep going and good luck. It's your time...

Correct, my mistake. But it makes the fat-finger error hypothesis even more valuable. 2 clicks instead of 1 click, not a big physical difference. Bottom line, you should always keep track of your current position in the market and not only relying on what you think your position is.

Why do you care that much about a few hundred dollars loss? I'd say forget that and move on, unless a few hundred dollars means a lot for you...

For the ones who think trading is gambling and/or the ones who don't have enough money to trade.

12 secs difference between the 2 Buy orders, it seems like a fat-finger error to me.

Check your trade list and order status list and look at the price you entered (sell order) and the price you closed (buy order). The graph you provided is not really helpful in you situation because it doesn't show what you did. You just added some comments on what you think you did. If you...

If you went short @2002.75 and you manually closed your position @1999.25, you should have made money, unless you think you were short but you were long (or you're mixing Buy and Sell and Long and Short). But anyway, if you put an order to Buy @2001.75, there is no way not to get filled if the...

Could you post real numbers? Not sure I'm following what happened.

Let's say you went short @1996.00 and you put a Buy order @1995.00 to make a profit while the market was 1995.00-1995.25. There is no guarantee that your Buy order will be filled. The market might reverse up and your unrealized profit may become a loss. Unless I misrunderstood what you meant.

How about looking at the CBOE website??? http://www.cboe.com/micro/trading-hours-and-holidays.aspx

??? Can you elaborate?

My 2 cents: Leverage is defined as the maximum amount of money you can make from the same initial investment. Not sure the SPX gives more leverage because it's 100X the index. You have to take into account the initial investment cost. The SPX options ATM 6 months expiration (March 2016) are very...

What do you mean exactly by "work fast"? Any idea of your maximum response time you are expecting? How much gain are you looking at compare to the speed you would get by trading from your home (assuming you're in North America)?

Are you short or long on this position? You said short but your stop seems to indicate that your long.