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ive been watching silver for 5 years and i'm pretty sure it's only reached the limit ($1.50) once. maybe twice. they were around spring this year. mid april it was down more than two dollars one day. the comex just paused for a few minutes at down 1.50 then reopened and down it went. so...

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what was interesting about this spike was that it lasted so long and went back and forth several times. usually it's just a spike up and rapid drift back down to equilibrium. this time, it went from 652 to 657, down to 655, back up to 657, to 655, to 657 then down. it took five minutes...

you're probably buying one that is expiring. try buying the march contract

Not a jab at you or your thinking pabst, but what do you think happens in the high pe markets if sbux, mcd, wmt etc start to turn down?

i gotta be the lone dissenter (as often) I don't see what's so fantastic about this current bull market. overall stocks are up maybe 50-75% off the bottom, and russell is up what 125%? Not only are these increases pretty weak as far as bull markets go (think post 1932 and post 1982) but...

Rearden... I don't know the guy but I respect him. His posts are sharp and he's reputed to be one of the biggest, most successful traders on elite. I remember him saying a while back that he didn't really feel he was functioning optimally unless he was on some kind of substance. I think it...

it's cause you're trying to buy sept. which is pre front month(dec) so it's getting to be delivery season, which is not allowed with IB

did anyone see a trade of 2300 contracts print at around 2:40 today or do i have bad data?

Rrrrrrrrrrriiiiggggghhhttt........

not sure exactly, but it is the vast majority

this is simply wrong. I don't know off the top of my head, but the comex open interest in futures across all months is maybe 350,000 contracts. this is about 1300 tons of gold. world gold supply in marketable, available form is several times this, maybe 20K tons or so (though the exact figure...

Nik has it 100% right. I am a part time player and part/full time trader. I have had moderate success at each. The guys who say it's impossible to make money playing cards really sound shockingly like those who say it's impossible to make money in the markets because "there's only...

my comment is these numbers seem way off. especially the dow... 100 points range is a big day and i doubt it's the average range of 2005

Fred, I think the increase in volume you are seeing is across the board in stock index futures. For example, those big 5 minute bars in the er2 are showing up as 40-70K contract bars in the es. I think it's a function of the move itself and not something russell specific.

anyone know of anythink like a dow jones utility futures product that trades electronically? have searched but haven't found anything. the closest i come up with is the IDU stock.

for a long with this time horizon (3 month chart) i would probably sell half my position today, watch it over the next couple weeks and look to buy it back if the stock gets to about 18.

IMO this is not that significant. Yes, it is a reversal hammer, and yes there are gaps to fill. But the volume and size of the pattern is simply not significant enough to put a short out based on this. It's certainly possible that it can correct to say 18 or so, but these minor hammers have...

the trades weren't mine. I was curious because sometimes i leave orders open away from the market and am wondering how far away i can leave them and still expect them to hold if and when executed

does anyone know whether/which of these spike trades were busted?