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With CBOT bonds and notes, it's ~2 or 3 business days before the first day of the delivery month, i.e. September will "roll" into December on August 29th or 30th.

Longer-term breakouts tend to attract more stop orders from "breakout players" because they're all aware of a "critical" price level in a market. That source of volume should generally give more follow-thru to the initial surge through the price level. That same price level should be able to...

(1) Will your losing day-trades become swing-trades? (2) Instead of looking for follow-thru with "news reports", expect reversals instead if you're making scalpy trades. (3) You'd want to use a limit-order above your buy-price if you buy a stock and want to sell-out quickly if it goes a few...

If a currency were to "sit still", the interest earned on a cash position should equal the profit earned from holding a futures position that's correctly priced.

It doesn't smell "right". You have to consider storage and borrowing costs for the physical gold. On volatile days, you have much bigger profit potential on the outright instead of doing calendar spreads.

.........Yes.....yes.........and it's "Labor Day", not Labour Day. You'll get your volatility in September and October. Trust me on that!

The contacts are "rolled forward" before (FND) first notice day in order to avoid delivery.

Since you're daytrading, you want to focus on the most liquid contracts; i.e. eMini S&P, 10-year note & crude oil. The comparison you made with the bid-ask spread versus the average daily range was "arbitrary". One market may seem more profitable than another based on volatility but if you take...

miramar-research.com. , greentradertax.com , tradersaccounting.com?? They might be of value. I haven't used them for anything. Talk to your clearing firm about setting up the proper type of account(s) based upon the number of investors and amount of assets under management too. They should be...

Allow me to save you ~30 bucks.-------Chapter-1: When stock prices are making new-highs, money supply and international economics are okay. When stock prices are making lows, money supply and international economics are in disarray. The End.

(1) Go Buckeyes! Congratulations on graduating from OSU. (2) With corn, soybeans and cotton, you're wasting your time with having a time horizon longer than one year. Too much changes from one growing season to the next. (3) Oil, gold & sugar are correlated too much. The three should trend up...

Go to CME.com and bop around the website for info. The bid-ask prices are very wide on one of their option spreadsheet pages. Nobody is in a rush to hedge with these contracts. If Miami gets some hurricane strikes, it'll be interesting to see if that contract does anything.

Lunch with Warren? It'll be a chicken salad sandwich, a Dairy Queen chocolate-dipped ice cream cone all washed down with a Coke. You can do better.

Keep an eye on the stocks that are making new-highs, day after day, week after week, i.e. GOOG, QCOM et al. That's what the 10,000-banger stocks look like. The tough part is holding on for the entire ride.

"Emerging" markets will tend to be more volatile. They'll tend to move around more. When emerging markets become "submerging" markets, you can make great money on the short-side.

It might be that Europe "goes on vacation" during the Summer months. It might be this way until after Labor Day weekend.

Contact the exchanges that you're interested in. They might be able to assist you.

In a well-defined uptrending market, pullbacks/dips occur off of the highs. When a dip "stops", you expect the market's uptrend to resume and make new highs. If new highs don't happen quickly enough AND the market looks like it's going to "test" the low of the dip, you'll then generally have a...

What has happened previously when the bearish sentiment rose above 50%? Is it based on a reasonably large sample size? Does the sample include hedge fund managers who live in Stamford or Greenwich?

(1) Chicken and egg? I don't believe you understand "open interest" correctly. In order for you to sell -short, there has to be a willing buyer for you to sell to. It might be an existing position holder OR a new participant in the market. (2) If 5,000 contracts are offered at-the-market when...