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I never believed in the govt manipulation in the stock market until the mid to late 90's. Remember the Asian crisis? Hong Kong went in and bought their own stocks. They admitted it. That was a first. I believe folks attached with our govt do the same. But they do not admit it. I think the...

Well, I do get up early. But according to my shorts ---it moved quite a bit after the NFP as well. It collapsed! The Euro futures can also move alot in the evening hours during the Asian openings. edit: You said PST!!! Get your ass out of bed! That is 8 am out east. You are a lazy...

You said it. Thank God I had the Euro futures and Bund up. They are moving down nicely. The stock indexes are dragging ass today.

This is the whole entire point. It pisses off the powers that be---to see folks trading etf's and refusing to trade mini's. So they are giving them the same damn thing in a futures. With all the retail brokers offering futures this may work to introduce the masses to futures. We will see.

We maybe and maybe not. These may take off and there will be market makers lining up for these. They are very efficient for option market makers as well. We will see. Paying 30 percent less in taxes and getting traders status off the top will get attention!

Partially true, but from what I am hearing the Merc has figured out that alot of institutions/traders out east are pissed the etf slippage and nonsense intraday. These could be a better deal than the ETF's ---or at least they will have to run a tighter game on the ETF's. The AMEX Specialist...

I agree with you but you don't understand the product. It can be delivered. They will most likely kill the big contract and let the emini go all you can eat before they let it trade on Globex all day long.

They had to redo the futures tax status when they introduced the SSF's. If I remember correctly congress/cftc etc. decided that any index containing more than 30 or so stocks was considered a futures or something like this. These indexes are above the limitation whereas the DIA is not...

Well this is some innovation. It gives stock traders lower margin and FUTURES TAX BENEFITS. These are deliverable and that is a first for stock index futures. At first glance, these may seem like no big deal. However, many stock traders and average joes do not like or understand stock index...

Well I have moved some position trading to Eurex US. The US fixed income is indeed dead. However, you can trade the Russell products without to much of a problem. It is better for position trading because they do not tie up as much capital as the CME with those jacked up margins. They need a...

TSE is where you want to get the data from. You can trade them at the TSE. That is where the BIG market is for JGB's. However, you can use the TSE data (better because of the liquidity) and trade the mini jgb at SGX. The Mini JGB is only 1/10th the size. The JGB on TSE has a 10k margin in...

Oanda can and will go wide. I cannot give you anything exact but on big numbers they can be as wide as FXCM or worse. Just depends. You can run their FXGAME demo account for free and see for yourself on the next number ---try to hit'em and see how bad the fills are. FWIW, I now have an...

Joey, If you are holding postions for longer than a few minutes ---look at the ER2 on Eurex US. The Russell 1000 is the same as the spoo (it is a close beta of the sp 500). Better margins and dirt cheap commissions ---1.41. I have been getting in and out of 15-30 lots on the Eurex US...

OH no argument from me! Seeing as I am trading the ER2 this minute! I believe a traders time is much better spent in the ER2 than the Spoo. Cheers. Oh and look out for the EurexUS products. They are doing their margins correctly. CME keeps it's margins artificially high for political...

I wasn't exactly calling you out bro. I have just heard this opinion so many times. And I was wondering where it comes from. All new traders or "newer traders" tend to have this opinion. The idea that big volume is bad in other products because of what happened to the spoo is flawed...

I have heard this same opinion from other traders. Out of curiosity, how long have you been trading? And on what do you base your opinion? Rising volume hurts the product? Is this your opinion? I have found that rising volume always helps IN BULL MARKETS. In bear stock markets I have...

Thanks good info---as I suspected a BUBBLE. Who knows when it it going to pop tho. Buying Realestate in Shanghai or Beijing over this next decade will IMO be like going back in time and buying realestate in Manhattan 100 years ago.

I have seen these surveys for years and cannot remember one that did NOT end up a great fade.

I have heard real estate has been bid out of sight in some parts of China?? Do you have any numbers? I would imagine realestate there would be a great long term investment ---especially if you get a panic over something happens to buy on the cheap. China will see a panic or hard times or...

I talked to Def via PM and he says any day. There is something to be programmed in the system and it is not quite done. As soon as it gets programmed they are dropping them. So any day now. Someone will post it ---so be on the lookout.