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futures are a pure supply/demand vehicle. that is why i trade (on an intraday basis) YM almost exclusively. stocks i love. I INVEST in stocks, and even swing trade or occasionally daytrade them. But for intraday trading, imo, nothing offers more opportunities, return on capital and pure no...

PREM: "It's a real-time Ticker of the Arbitrage-Window values....You already have it in TWS but your clients want it in an Index-Ticker-format" Correct. I use IB, but I do all my charting through Medved Quotetracker using the IB datafeed. Since I trade mostly YM, I use TICK, TRIN...

PREM symbol... did i already say that? :) love the IB improvements, btw. it gets better and better

i REALLY want a PREM symbol in IB so I can better play the program buy/sells on the indexes. This is the only piece of data that I am sorely missing via IB

i use interactive brokers, and it's very easy. just enter the symbol. on their account options page, you gotta sign up for the exchanges. some are free, a very few are like $10 a month for market data. but most are free. and you just enter the symbol into the trading program and set it...

trading the Nikkei through Singapore is a great thing to trade. opens at 3:45 pm pacific time this is a very smooth contract to trade, with nice trends. or Hang Seng Index futures through Hong Kong (HSI) is good too. this is more frenetic and arguably harder to trade than Nikkei...

have u tried the IB site's webinars? they have a pretty detailed video on advanced order types via TWS

yes. enter them in manually in the indices section of QT

yes. go to symbol search and search for indexes under the AMEX exchange, in IB as for getting rid of holidays, go to the holiday timeframe (edit timeframe) and insert the holiday hours

in regards to the RTH session vs. globex. Bolter, i think sticking to regular trading hours for your MP calcs is arguably a good way to go. i haven't seen any data one way or the other about whether the 24 hr data is useful for MP but... since (if i understand correctly) you use volume @...

arzoo, you are correct in your estimations. er2 is fine, but the reality is that Nikkei is trending like a mutha. day after day. 100-250 pts moves are relatively common. this offers (imo) better opportunity than the ER2. furthermore, i find the movement smoother. my favorite is still...

in brief, a 5 point move (1 tick) in the nikkei is $25 USD a 1 pt move (1 tick)in the hang seng futures (HSI) is about $5 USD my understanding is that US citizens cannot legally trade options on these indexes. i have traded the hang seng and nikkei futures for some time. they are "fun"...

just for the record, i'm not trading today. not saying *i* got that money. but some traders did :)

awesome 225 pts. that's over 1k per contract in the first few minutes in*sane

5 pts is one tick BECAUSE it is the minimum movement. but on a 15,000 pt contract it is too thick a spread imo, since I am used to trading the YM which is 1 pt spread on an 11,000 point contract. because the nikkei is particularly volatile and has big trends right now, it kind of evens out (5...

"screaming sell signal" lol. Nikkei is significantly undervalued vis a vis the S&P. it's been a looooooooooooong bear market. i've traded the SGXNK product *(singapore) and it is very tradeable and very trendy. my one qualm is that the spread sux. I won't trade the ES (i only trade YM)...

I would like to see: a put/call ratio symbol that I can graph (i use QT for charting) a prem symbol that i can graph (so i can piggyback on buy/sell programs) the lack of PREM symbol is my biggest (about only) complaint with IB. IB's charting is still horrendous imo, but I could not...

For longterm investing, in general, i'm a contrarian. With that in mind, Nikkei is looking mighty appealing to me. Coming out of a basing pattern of a nice looooooong bear market. And historically speaking, on a ratio basis, it is exceptionally undervalued in comparison to the S&P. I...

i like ben's commentary and i like the raw S&P pit too. frankly, i don't think i've quite figured out how to interpret the data from ben's calls, but even @ this point it's helpful. the raw pit is definitely helpful on interpreting moves, and even predicting them at times.

http://www.realtimefutures.com/ has a free trial. you can try the "raw" pit noise and/or the version with a barker who talks over the pit noise and lets you know who is buying and how much... i like MP because it is pure price action. pure supply demand. i feel the same way about...