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I did read your post but would like to hear more about these spreads and others. Thanks

Dude I am not going anywhere I truly want to learn more about these kinds of spreads. Sorry I probably was not specific enough. The truth is that I want to learn more about options and spreads in options basically because they are about the only chance I will have to be able to trade on...

Hi I would like to know more about trading options spreads. First what is the advantage of spread trading options versus just putting on an outright option? Is it just to reduce the premium costs? I hear guys talking about butterflies, condors, ratio and bull call spreads what exactly are...

I am not sure what you are really asking but spreads are not just made up of carrying charges, they also represent the real supply and demand by the end users in a paticular market. In extremely bearish markets the spread might trade at near or full carry. In very bullish markets the spread...

I currently position trade grains and energies. But I am looking to get more involved with trading livestock. Are there any livestock traders or livestock floor traders that could help me out hear? I understand the longer term forcasts as that is what I usually base my trades off of but...

I hear that lately due to the manipulation of this market it is not worth trading. Unless you are more of a longer term trader.

Guys, no I am not a millionaire nor do I have a lot of money waiting for me later in life. Like I said I am a farm kid from Iowa who knows the agricultural markets better than most and has had a fair share of experience trading them. I am a position trader who usually executes spreads...

Can anyone tell a young want to be pit trader just what they think the future holds for the pits of Chicago and New York? Is fully electronic the future or are we going to see half and half trading for sometime now or will the pits live forever? I am currently a grain and energy trader in the...

I have heard what you are saying from other people so that must be the way it really is. Like I said I am only 16 now and have the rest of high school and college to get through before anything serious happens. What I am thinking about doing is getting a job as a clerk or some entry level job...

I do hear a lot about the options pits. Almost all of the options on the agricultural contracts are done in the pits and a lot of people expect the majority of them to still be in the pits in the years to come. It seems to me that if you want a floor job this is now the place to go. I even...

I sure hope you are right. Especially with the thinner traded commodities like lumber, milk, and HRS wheat if these markets just went completely electronic you would get terrible fills. I have traded lumber before and got terrible fills in the pit. I can't imagine how bad they would be if...

I live on a farm near Carroll so I have a pretty good understanding of the grain and livestock commodities and have had about 2 years of experience position trading them along with some energy trading. I would like to go to UI or ISU after high school and then start trading on the floor at the...

Im 16 years old right now and my family owns a seat on the mgex. I would love a job in the pits but am extremely worried about how long they are going to be around. I thought about getting a job working on the floor this summer but what could I do? The runners have been replaced with...

Are hedge funds more intra day traders than longer term or the opposite? It seems to me that the more successful hedge funds are longer term so why does there seem to be so many quant and programming people that the hedge funds are looking to hire?

SO say that what your saying is true. Does that mean that the average joe can't get in there and day trade a few contracts? Will the whole trading society have to be a quantitive genius or a great c++ programmer in order to be competitive in the markets or do you think that there will still...

But what happens when everybody has the same technology and everybodies system is the best? The humans no longer will trade because they are at such a disadvantage. The systems become so smart that they won't take the other side of the trade because their too smart to do so. Sure it would be...

Also what about physical commodities everybody? Commodities are pretty much the only market where fundementals actually mean something. Do you guys think computer trading will be able to handle trading things like corn, crude oil or lean hogs like they handle the financial markets?

COME ON!!!!!! I know you guys have more to say about automated trading than this. These things might take our jobs in the future I want to hear some opinions.

Ok, Ok I know now that my system is on its way out fairly quickly. But really besides the initial big economic report the bonds pretty much trade in a straight line the rest of the day. How do you day traders make money in the bonds if there is vertually no volatility after the first few hours...

Hey everyone I finally started trading the 30 year bond futures. I have to say that I am a little disappointed though. The bids and asks are so huge that I can never get filled. This is the only market that seems to have this problem on every other market I can trade the bid/offer spread and...