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This is a very interesting book. They found the holy grail, leveraged it, and of course the market was irrational longer than they could stay solvent.

Chicago, IL – December 1, 2006 – OneChicago, LLC today reported that 790,076 security futures contracts traded at the Exchange in November, a 12.4% increase from November 2005 volume. Average daily volume (ADV) in November was 37,623 contracts. Don't have December #'s yet. If your...

C,mon...you can't judge the volume on the Friday before Christmas. Dec 8th : 33,944 Dec 15th : 18,396

It isn't helping that your username is HeywoodJablome.

They might, I'm not sure. You could check with MB Trading maybe. I think they have a pretty good product offering.

You can open a cash account. Must be 21 or older to open a margin account. Must be 18 or older to open a cash account. This is under Accounts, New Accounts, Individuals, then Account Information, on the main page.

For those who don't know, buying (and holding) a mutual fund or ETF in December, sometimes November can be dangerous tax wise. If you buy DDM Friday and hold it, you'll get that 6.80 cap gain/dividend and potentially haven't made any money on the fund. So you want to keep an eye on distributions...

http://mutualfunds.about.com/cs/taxes/a/distributions.htm This might be helpful too.

The shareholders on the date of record, which is Dec. 22nd. The fund, like any fund, will drop in price after the distribution is done. That's why looking at a chart of a mutual fund can be decieving. The capital gains gets shed off to the shareholders, making it taxable to them. The price has...

http://www.proshares.com/funds/distributions They have a total of $6.80 distribution coming. If people don't want it, they need to get out of the fund. That may cause some imbalances in the price. ??

Thanks for the info. NYMEX really trying to diversify their product offering.

Still fine here in Phoenix

My feed is back

VIX futures (VBI) volume typically is in the hundreds. Their is quite a bit of volume in the options (VIX). They are available at IB.

TIP, SHY

You'd probably want TIP or SHY.

For example, Euro, EUR, the trading class is 6E I believe. The trading class XT is the European expirations. EC is pit traded. Not sure what the YTs are....pit traded weeklys maybe.

Yeah, I would think these should do well since the contracts already exist, but now also electronically traded. Hopefully we see more volume than the euro expiration options.

They weren't available at IB today. After a chat and a few emails, found out IB should have them up tomorrow.

No 60/40 tax treatment. Taxed like a stock. For me, it's smaller contract value vs. e-mini futures contracts.