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================================ Could mention several other technical things why i prefer ES over YM, but think i will not. Also i have seen MANY more trading contests for russel1k/2k; much more than for Dow-mini. So ads do pay. ======================================== The fact...

i guess the only way to trade it is with limit orders. at least you are garanteed your fill or maybe better. i have traded this index with stops and have gotten alot of slippage. with market orders its even worse. you always get filled higher than your price when buying and lower when selling...

i was looking to backtest an emini system using 10 minute intraday charts. i ran a backtest using open tick which is a financial datafeed company and used it to feed a platform called sierra charts. the data i got was mixed and seriously flawed. for the month of jan. and feb of this year alone...

i hear your point and others about the dow being just 30 companies but keep in mind. these 30 companies are by far the largest in the world and have by far the highest market share in the world. if you take the russel 2000 or even the nasdaq 100 i'm sure the dow can balance out. the market share...

ah, so there is another way to skin a cat. so would this work with coffee and silver futures? for example i see a may 105 coffee put option selling for 0.11. the contact size is 37,500lbs. so would this option cost $4125? and for a may comex silver 15.50 call option selling for 0.015 with a...

i have read many posts about recommending the dow eminis. i hear that it has a low margin/volitility ratio, great point spread of 1 tick and $5 low value per tick. it all seems great on paper yet it terribly lags all of the other e-mini products. as of march 28th the open interest on the june...

well there is definetly a problem. the question is can you solve the problem which i would appreciate. i personally took the value of the option premium listed of 0.00015 and multiplied it by the point value of 12.50 which is what they all tell you to do. my calculator answered 0.001875. (...

that option is out of the money and is definetly not worth 12,500. u see what i mean? its confusing. and it doesnt have to be. they can leave the zeros and decimals out and allow you to easily calculate them but they dont. its rediculous and makes no sense.

no. no way you see my point? the option premium quotes are a huge mess. in a japanese yen futures contact its a piece of cake. the point value is 12.50. if i buy a japanese yen futures contract at 8500 and it goes to 8510 and i sell it i make $125. i profited 10 points and its 10 points times...

thats how to calculate your profits when you buy an outright jap yen futures contract. the point value is 12.50. you just multiply the point value times the points that you made. thats simple. 12.50 is an easy number. no zeros and decimals in front of it. its the options premium prices that have...

look i appreciate all your help but if you dont know the answer thats fine and i respect that. you have halped far more than you could have wanted to in the first place. much appreciated. when you see a yen option premium with a price of 0.00330 and you are trying to figure out the cost of that...

thanks for the illustration. however my question was pertaining to futuresources option quotes and other sites that put multiple zeros and decimals in front of the price making it difficult to calculate. they always show zeros and decimals in front of the option premium prices. in particular...

i have another question if you dont mind. i was looking at option premium prices and it may seem simple to you but i find it very difficult to calculate them. i would like to give you an example and perhaps you can give me an answer and demonstrate how you figured it out. i am lookiing at...

do futures options always expire a month earlier than the contract delivery month?

i know from trading futures that the first notice date means the last day you are allowed to be long and the last trading date means the last day you can be short (excluding equity markets that are settled in cash and have the same expiration date for long and shorts) however in options this...

thanks. it is free however their site is terribly vague. i set up an account and they have this page that loads after you agree to all the stuff and there is a bunch of sample downloads. where do i go to actually get the data i am looking for? for example i am looking for historical data for 10...

i am looking to get some 10 minute charts for the ES for the past year. anyone know where i can find them?

sorry i dont get it. if i am looking to sell an april coffee option and want to find out the expiration date of that options i see 3 expiration times for april 07 in that expiration chart. i see an april 07 last trading date expiring on april 2nd. then i see one expiring last trading date on...

hi, thanks. that helped. however if you look under april for example you will see 3 dates listed for coffee options. the first one says from 04/02/2007 KO Aug-07 First Trading Date 04/03/2007 KO Mar-09 First Trading Date 04/13/2007...

thanks for the link but it didnt help at all. i am looking at comex silver and nybot coffee options and i cant find the expiration dates for them at all. do you think my broker would know them off hand? i have a discount broker and i dont think they r going to give me all this info. why cant the...