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The advantage of Electronic over pit is that with Electronic you see a reliable bid ask quote and you get feedback on the fill in less than a second. Don't know how it works at Xpresstrade since I use IB for electronic orders. I could be wrong but I believe that electronic volume has...

Thanks, that is BS...definitely not any question there that it was their fault. Looks like I need a new broker.

Can you provide any details? I use them and haven't had any problems but like to stay up on what might happen. What instrument, how much was the slippage. If you lost a lot on small slippage because you held a ton of contracts thats a different thing to huge slippage or order error...

I use Xpresstrade....no problems....mostly trade softs. Sometimes take a while to get a fill confirmation but that is probably just the pit. Customer service has been very helpful. My fills on stop losses have always been fair. But I don't use any complicated strategies...just limit buys and...

I already posted that I covered a couple of hours ago ES = 1487ish Shoulda gonna longa

My reasoning WAS that the Fed cut news would be priced in by now and that, after the barf fest that was early to mid Aug, longs would be ecstatic to sell out on this bounce. If the situation was so bad two weeks ago for these grown men to be whining and crying like two year olds and begging...

It seems pretty clear (like spooz was sayin) that they're just gonna push this up into Fed announcement. Shitty volume but that's more of a function of the shorts just standing aside until then. Wish I'd come to this realization a week ago. :D

Makes more sense to compare Aaron to other futures accounts than the SP. http://www.barclaygrp.com/indices/btop/ Favorable comparison.

+1. Was going to say something longer but that pretty much wraps it up.

Thanks...but I thought it worked the other way around? They follow us don't they?

Hmmm....what's up? ES and NQ up 10 points. Someone getting long for announcement of Bernanke Put? Any news?

Thank you!

Does anyone know of an easy place to find a calendar of upcoming announcements such as USDA estimates? Thanks!

no way man....there's still a minute left! :D

Don't do drugs....drugs are bad....ok?

Markets are efficient? Coulda fooled me. Where exactly was this efficiency over the last three days? I guess the net worth of the economy changed 1-2% on those days? Efficient Markets is the mantra used by academics and quants to complain when things get inefficient. Where was the market...

What does everyone make of this strength? I'm short based on my gut (good idea huh) and in the green. That nerve gas story comes out and we don't sell off at all...remember the days when that would shoot the market down? Objectively I'd say we are going up up up. But who wants to be long going...

OK, thanks...I was in Beans back In October and was trying to figure out how to pyramid that move but the sucker never pulled back! Makes sense now since it was such a strong up move. Corn, on the other hand, hasn't broke out of its downtrend yet so I should probably not add yet.

Yeah...insane. Probably seem great if I was in it. Was looking to short it a couple days ago at 7.50 but luckily didn't. I'm not saying anything of substance so I think I'll shut up now. :D

Thanks, good points. Definitely a little wired. Yeah...I shouldn't judge my decision by the fact its up a few hours later....it could have been down. I still have my long term position on but i added a short term one at the close yesterday since I like Corn long term and I thought we had hit...