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yes, they've advised me not to close it out until they get the mess straightened out, although they have eliminated the possibility of it being someone else's phoned in order, because all of their phone orders matched up, and none of them at the price I was excecuted at. They are looking at a...

I trade commodity futures for a living, and have never had this problem until today. I opened up my electronic account statement tonight, and found that I was holding a very sizeable (for my account anyway) position in March corn. The trade showed to have been executed today at the market...

Depends. 80% of my trading in the grains is chart based, with a seasonal bias. I will, however, look at fundamentals and weather and such around big USDA reports and try to take a more fundamentally biased position, or at least hedge a chart based position. Mostly though, the chart and trend...

Wow...I'm a PA trader in the commodity pits...and normally not prone to get into such musings...but this is TOO MUCH!! HAHA.... "I cant talk about his trading or himself, he asked everyone who learned from him to respond the same way"......anything about the way she said that sound CULTISH to...

I use ProphetX as well...I assume thats what you're using. I've noticed the same thing too, although I get EVERY bar starting/ending at the top of the hour. The only one I ever show to have a "30" start or end timestamp is the Friday afternoon close. Otherwise every other bar starts at the...

Without going into individual budgeting for ranches/packers etc. (I grew up around all of this so I have a fair amount of knowledge), you can derive some of this information from typical cycles and posted reports/information (available from USDA site or from DTN, CattleFax, etc). To look at...

what in the hell?? are you serious?? Think about that...what point would that serve??

You forgot Frontline...FRO

not sure why my chart didnt post, but pull up March RR.

rice may try to pick up a bit here:

Thanks for checking out the blog ciracadian, hope you found something useful on there! As far as the meats go, wow...what a breakout today! I was planning on spreading hogs over cattle today after Friday's action, but today blew that possibility out of the water. Also circadian, to answer...

If you are just trading on the screen, Advantage is the best in my opinion. Low rates, top notch customer service and tech support, and a great client liason who will work his/her ass off for you. One drawback is they don't have anyone on the floor if you ever decide to trade in some of the...

From personal experience this seems about right...been at it now for 4 years...second year fulltime now. Did I blow out an account: Yes (2), Am I profitable now? Yes (enough to make a living, nothing extravagant). Am I a master trader? Not hardly (still working at that daily) But hey...half...

Ditto that...first couple of years will hurt...you'll likely lose money even with an edge...you'll blow out first 2 accounts...so don't sink all of your capital into it. Have 3 years of living expenses saved up, because it'll be then before your profitable...unless you're a prodigy and thats...

I am sure this question has been asked before but I couldn't find it on here after searching. I use Ninja Trader for backtesting a few automated intraday strategies, but I use a TT feed, so not much historical data. I currently buy historical 1min bar data and import it, but a new my question...

Minni H has been out of whack for a while, starting with the Z/H spread

yeh...nokomisjeff would be the guy to talk too...for the really big order I would almost be more in favor of going to the pit IF you have to get it done right then...as the big boys will do 1-200 lots pronto...but if you have a few minutes working the screen is much easier, and the liquidity is...

Corn hands down on liquidity, followed by the beans and sugar. If you look at the front month corn DOM, you can usually get 40-60 bought/sold in the first 2 levels at any one time (at THAT second)...thats probably an average...better obviously near the pit open/close, a bit worse mid day...

I remember when the three fertilizer contracts came out in 2003-4 ish...but never traded them. Had a guy ask me today whatever happened to them so I went to the CME site...couldn't find anything. Anybody out there know? Not an important question...just curious to know.

I caught it, have been in the Feb hogs since Tuesday, but was spreading them against the cattle....so..I didn't catch the whole move I guess....but did exit the cattle on the open in the pits after I saw what the electronic had done, so caught more than some.