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I'm thinking the USD didn't drop more because the market still isn't convinced the fed will cut by 50.

I'm not a Tradestation user/customer but I'm under the impression that it's a very simple and user-friendly (albeit limited) platform to use. I'd be interested in hearing your opinions as to what makes it easy to use as it's not possible to demo without opening an account (which I won't)...

IB goes down for short periods from time to time. But what can you expect? ALL brokers have downtime, and I'm pretty certain IB is among the brokers with the least downtime. Look, even exchanges have downtime - so it's totally unrealistic to expect a broker to have 100% uptime. Anyone beyond...

Kosmita, please please pleeeeeease tell us what the strategy is :D I'm also offering to take the other side of your trades, and I'll shave a few cents off atticus' rich prices :)

Wow! My two remaining open spreads got stopped out: Sold 2 Apr RB RBOB Gasoline / Bought 2 Apr HO Heating Oil @ 0.0198 - CLOSED - LOSS of 0.0044 which is 370 usd. Sold 1 May RB RBOB Gasoline / Bought 1 May HO Heating Oil @ 0.0680 - CLOSED - PROFIT of 0.0020 which is 84 usd. And just...

Guys, I haven't forgotten :) No positions yet and it might take a while if the spreads continue to head downwards. Positions won't be taken until (if?) things turn around. I'll try to answer questions/comments one of the next few days.

The remainder of my position in Feb/Jun RBOB Gasoline fell through my stoploss, and I just closed it at -0.1470. The other half was sold a few days ago at -0.1270, so the avg price is -0.1370. I didn't sum it up then, so the whole thing is added up now: Sold 4 Feb / Bought 4 Jun RB RBOB...

Natural Gas has tagged along with Crude Oil, so I've closed my spread for a small loss. This spread did not really work, and it's now breaking down from it's slow uptrend. Sold 1 Jun / Bought 1 March NG Natural Gas @ 0.150 - CLOSED - LOSS 0.010 which is 100 usd.

Love this answer! I've always suspected this, but never bothered to do the work to prove it.

Here's the current status at the end of December: As you can see, December was a very good month. Started out with getting in too early in the RB calendars and RB vs HO spreads, and too late into Natural Gas. SOME STATS Return since April is +221%. (Closed and Open profits)...

Glad to hear you've got so many profitable spreads kahai! During the open I closed out my spread in wheat. It was pretty obviously going for a retracement, and I figured why not just take the profit since it's already at 142% of my profit target. So I closed it at -116 1/4. Sold 2 Jul 08 /...

Reminiscences...

Up until a few days ago the limit was ONE system. I think OpenQuant looks very good from a programming point of view, but am worried about QuantHouse's institutional grade platform which gives them an incentive to hold back features and not push OpenQuant any further.

As long as it's not your equity curve I guess everything is just fine :)

Today I exited the spread in interest rates, as it went to break even and even in the red. It's passed my stoploss, which has a time element as well, so this trade isn't working as it should. Sold 2 Mar 08 ZT 2-Year Notes / Bought 2 Mar 08 ZF 5-Year Notes @ 100.015,625 - CLOSED - PROFIT 14...

Thanks for that link, bt116 - a truly fascinating read. In addition to learning a lot more about the NG markets I was also impressed that US taxpayer dollars could produce something that's so straightforward and available.

Sold the two remaining contracts of my Jan/May RBOB Gasoline @ -0.1650, which gives me an average exit of -0.1715 on all four contracts: Sold 4 Jan 08 / Bought 4 May 08 RBOB Gasoline @ -0.1715 - CLOSED - PROFIT 0.0117 which is USD 1.966. Both the RBOB Gasoline spreads were entered...

Just sold out half my position (2 contracts) in Feb/Jun Gasoline at -0.1270. Not posting profit until it's all closed out.

Added one more contract of Jul/May Wheat, this time at -129 3/4. This makes the total position: Long 2 Jul 08 / Short 2 May 08 ZW Wheat @ -145.125

I sure hope this thread continues as it started. It was interesting to hear about scalping the RTS, and it's always interesting to hear others perception of scalping European and US index futures. Just ignore Ssss completely.