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Was just wondering if you could do this. I imagine you could but am not for sure. Seems like a nice stratagy to just sell options on most of those type of stocks.

Well had an order in to buy 2 march corn at 375 before I left for school this morning and the damn thing went down to 375'4! Maybe if I put a pit order in the broker could of talked somebody into selling me that corn at 375 but who knows lol! Thought about selling some march 350 puts today...

Hello everybody im back from my journey of intra day trading. To put it simply I lost! This has been the second time now that I have burned through some money in order to try to trade intra day profitably. I tried trading the overnights on the grains and that didn't work then I went from...

clacy thanks for the compliment but don't some prop firms offer you a base salary and so much % of what you make? I just am wondering if anybody would hire a trader that position trades not just day trading. I would eventually like to go on my own after that if I can build up enough capital to...

Hello everyone I have been position trading commodities for a little over a year now. I am currently a junior in high school. I tried day trading during the summer because I thought that in order for me to do this for a living someday I better be able to profit intra day and not just have...

Im in not quite the same situation as you guys as im only a junior in high school. Have been trading since I was 15 and have learned basically everything through the school of hard knocks. Just recently starting to trade the currencies in very early morning trade before school and have to...

I agree with you and spooz. My trading experience has been from the school of hard knocks and thats just about it. I have read countless books but nothing works better than watching the markets and looking at countless charts to get a feeling for whats happening. I used to think that...

Im taking an accounting class in high school actually had a test today that I must of forgot about. Although I find it fairly easy (one of the few classes that I can actually say that about haha) it still absolutely bores me to death. Seems to be a correlation between accounting majors and...

I heard Sadists make the best trader. I have heard that the best traders are the guys that really want to stick it to people. That you don't really need to know much but crowd phycology and that actually being really smart will hurt you. The guy that said this traded in the swiss pit in the...

swissy is good but I think the pound is the ultimate currency to trade for beginners. 6.25 tick value is hard to beat when starting out. I have recently moved from trading the grains overnight to trading the pound, euro, canadian dollar, yen, swissy in the morning from 4am-7:30. I am still in...

Ok somebody earlier mentioned taking the other side of this trade (its way more fun to go against the grain). I think this all is total BS. You guys can't try to quantify every piece of the market. It can't be done because it has no rules and anything goes. If that guy is telling the truth...

That doesnt make any since with the cups. Why would you switch cups? Wouldn't that just be second guessing yourself? If you picked that cup in the first place and then you have the opportunity to switch how can you determine that you have better odds picking the other cup? Its a 50-50! That...

Anybody heard of this? Its for only fully electronic contracts. Sounds like as momentum and volume increase noise get louder. Buy em and Sold are heard when bids or offers get hit. Bid and Offer are constantly being shouted out. Just wanted to know if anybody has heard of this or is...

country average is 40s for beans and 150s for corn most years.

I think we are basically going to be rangebound in the old crop from now on. Obviously we can not support any higher prices but remember we are actually scraping the bottom of the barrel of the worlds wheat supply so prices will be supported. Remember you cant cull the human herd like you can...

Who is Joe Ross? Some guru? I can't think of a book right now as most of my experience with spreads and trading in general has been the advantage of knowing the grains in and out because I live on a farm in Iowa and the school of Hard Knocks! Im sure I have a few books lying around...

Funny thing is when these things were doing so well earlier and I was putting them down saying that they had no right to be in this business and that eventually when you get a market that doesn't make since mathamatically or scientifically these guys will go belly up. Come on now im only 17...

I find spreads to be very appealing. They represent the true supply and demand of a product without all the crazy erratic moves that are hard to explain sometimes. They also are free from limit moves which is always nice and keeps your hair its natural color. The new crop/old crop spread is...

I recently started trading wheat intra day on the overnight sessions and am off to a decent start. One thing that has me stumped though is the open of the market or any market for that matter. Most of my trading is looking at the orderbook and keeping track of certain price levels. When the...

Sorry everyone about not posting on hear lately. Have been trading wheat on the overnights after school and am pretty content with how it is going. Not much to say as for a post on it though because they arn't big trades and I just manage to grind out a few bucks on the overnight session. Wow...