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Yes CQG has this feature

Yes, like if you had a position valued at 75K... or a 50K position with a beta of 1.5. There are many reasons to have a smaller contract value. 5yr

They wouldn't all be in equities.... there aren't 50 viable equity futures markets. Only one position per market is possible (long short or flat), despite what some people on this site seem to think. We tried to trade every futures market with enough liquidity. Typically the market value...

Yes, typically 50 positions and some of them small. If you are trading the Nikkei, Hang Seng, SPI, Eurostoxx, Dax, CAC, FTSE, Dow, Nasdaq and S&P you need to limit your exposure to any one of those markets, otherwise you would be way over exposed to equities. If the exposure is 10 times that...

Thats easy, it happened all the time. We based all our positions off our fund, and our posted returns were the funds returns. Individually managed accounts expected their returns to exactly match the posted returns. (Investors would complain all the time if they were off by more than 10 basis...

Huh? why would it be more volatile than the current contract? It would offer more flexibility, which would be great for anyone with an account under $10MM. I used to trade for a CTA that managed over $100MM, but we had it all in seperately managed accounts. The smallest accounts we could...

Yeah, I would switch firms... they obviously don't value your business. I also use Fortis and they are excellent, they have a really solid 24 hour desk. What markets do you trade? 5yr

Don't know the source, my broker sent it out when gold was rallying... But I think this story might explain it more Barrick Gold to eliminate hedges, plans offer http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Barrick-Gold-to-eliminate-apf-3397141647.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=1&asset=&ccode=...

Author: Lawrence Williams Posted: Wednesday , 02 Sep 2009 LONDON - Several reports are coming out of China that there is pressure on state-controlled organisations - notably the country's main sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corporation (CIC) to rapidly build investment in...

This is one of the worst discussions ever. You can't be long and short the same instrument at the same time, you just have no position. If you set-up two different accounts to do this, you are just generating commissions with no chance of a gain for yourself. 5yr

Did you get short? 5yr

This is a very telling post, from the day you wrote this sugar has become one of the best long opportunities of the year. Classic... just buy it and stop over thinking. You should re-think your setups though, maybe look to buy stuff thats going up. 5yr

If you actually achieve those returns they are spectacular. Like better than any other fund manager ever. I would get data for markets you have tested on and run it on that. Like if your current portfolio and the data you tested on is US from 1999 to 2009, get date from 1989 and forward. Also...

In futures, for every long there is a short... you can't have a net long position or a net short position in the market, its always equal. If index funds are buying a ton of contracts, you have a bunch of pit traders short. In all futures markets true hedgers make up a very small percentage of...

Ok, lets say you have convinced me that speculators are responsible for the oil price spike to $148. So who was responsible for the fall from $148 to $32?

Look, if demand is greater than supply the price goes up until they are equal. If the price goes up 400% and demand is still greater than supply the price will still go up until that last bit of demand is met. There is no rule that says the price can only go up 10%. It has to do with the...

Didn't you follow my link? http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/info_glance/petroleum.html The data from the US government clearly shows demand higher than supply for 2.5 years, supply kept going up but so did demand and at a faster rate than supply. World oil supply has never been...

Overly complex reasons like demand outpacing supply? Or overly complex reasons like some sort of conspiracy lead by traders, investment banks, pension funds and the general public (by the way of ETFs) in which they all bought futures contracts at "bubble prices" and then bought up all the...

The crude spike has to be caused by speculators, right? Why else could it go so high? And Goldman Sachs must be involved, because they always are. http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/info_glance/petroleum.html Scroll to the bottom and follow the "World Oil Balance" link under...

They paid $14,000,000 in tax on over $2,000,000,000 of profits. Compare that to Exxon that paid $3.1 billion in taxes and made $4.7 billion (after tax) Its good to be the king 5yr