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I got an email from another broker saying both would be down until 10:30 Chi time. How come Globex and Nymex never go down but CBOT is unreliable? They're like the AMEX of futures exchanges. Hopefully the merger will favor the CME technology and not CBOT.

Amateur hour...here's an idea...do updates on the weekend! Brilliant!

Just got this: Due to the CBOT's Electronic Clerks being down all day today, CBOT Grain Open Outcry and E-CBOT trade openings will be delayed! The grain markets will open at 10:30am Chicago Time for both Open Outcry and E-CBOT. WTF....electronic clerks down? Growing pains a year later?

Is there some holiday I don't know about? 9:35 Chicago time and no action in electronic or pits? What's up?

I'd really rec you don't trade options...if you want leverage...why not futures? Sorry I can't be helpful with recs but I don't trade options.

There was also a huge surplus in Soybeans before it exploded last Sep/Oct. Doesn't mean a thing. If we get above 10.60 on Oct...I reckon we're in a bull mkt.

I trade longer term also. I use IB for electronic futures but use xpresstrade/optionsxpress for pit stuff. I didn't want to pay for pit subscriptions since I trade the entire futures spectrum. Higher commissions but since I am a LT trader...I don't really need streaming quotes. I'm old school...

Yeah, great method :) Nice trading, OP only did well, if he reversed all his positions.

Ahhh, I see. I'm a longer term trader (weeks not days) so I don't worry about the different time zone reactions. Plus, I don't want to have to follow it thru the night (I'm in the US). Thanks, good luck to all of us.

You think we're done on the upside? New monthly lows? Or are you just swing trading?

Can someone enlighten me whether this forecasts are a joke. He's been wrong every single time thus far. You could only be this bad if you were trying.

Oh please...even the limit up moves in the last week or so weren't problematic. You could have gotten out every single time in the after hours. Only a problem if you are huge and frankly, you wouldn't be on ET.

Perfect time for it to top. Such bullish news that we locked limit down into the close. Tomorrow should be interesting.

If you were a spec long on Wheat and you saw a lock limit down into the close after bullish USDA report...what do you thinking would be? :) I guess we'll know tomorrow whether the Wheat bull is run by the actual poor crop conditions or the specs. Corn seemed to break away from moving with...

I'm guessing this is a sympathy move with Beans? Now that Beans are about 30...corn aint movin. Literally, its stuck at 15. Strange though since Beans have been on a tear and Corn has done nothing but go down in the last 2 weeks.

Breaking out on bad news (higher yields than estimates) on what looks like it will be high volume. Watching the contract d!ck around in the range for the last week, I figured the shorties had it all under control...especially with the big moves in beans and wheat. Glad to be proven wrong.

It depends on his wealth though. 600 dollars didn't exactly break my bank. If it was credit card debt...thats patriotic.

Not exactly a lot of fear into the close. Rallied 10 points on ES, 15 on the NQ. Maybe just shorts covering but ES had 110K volume in last 5 minutes

Huh? Did he put a gun to your head and force you to buy the iPhone?

Ummm, I thought really bad news was good news these days? We'll definitely get a rate cut now won't we? That'll save us!