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My dad had that one memorized. I know I had a place "in the round tower of my [his] heart."

And that's what makes all our efforts worthwhile doesn't it. Couldn't but help think of this: The Children's Hour Poem lyrics of The Children's Hour by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's...

I like that. A lot.

Too hard to trade those two at night. Like watching the paint dry.

When we hit 1250.

Great thread.

My explanation is a rather oversimplified one to say the least. There are farmers who actually trade but I believe they use options to hedge their basically long position with the crop they have in the ground. December is the new crop month for corn (the crop that is in the ground right now)...

Futures are basically an insurance policy for the guys who use the stuff and the guys who provide/grow the stuff. If you worked for Kellogs and were in charge of producing Corn Flakes 6 months from now wouldn't it be nice to have the price of your corn locked up? If you were a farmer and...

Please enlighten us.

There are several live trading webinars on IB's website conducted by pros (I'm not) that explain this much better than I could. Works for me. Hope that helps. Best to get in with a limit order.

The way I use it is I watch the number of contracts being traded at the current price. Are they hitting the bid more or hitting the ask more? Watch the number of contracts offered above and below the current price. If there is a large number at a certain level what happens when the price gets...

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I'm not saying buy now by any means. There may well be more downside action. Or a quick bounce up then slammed lower than today then off to the races like after the last big drop in March. Who knows (who cares). With more money around and inflation we will eventually break 1600

We're just taking a breather for another run at 1600 (or higher) in the ES. We will get there eventually. Monday/Tuesday should be a rockin' day.

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The stuff that Stealth is talking about is right on and it works. The best way to learn how it works is JUST WATCH PRICE. Turn off all indicators and just have a bare screen in front of you with price and volume on it. After a while of watching price you will start to develop opinions...

There is another thread just now about the minimum wage. It seems these two threads go together. When the minimum wage goes up companies that depend on people in that wage category have two choices: do with less help or raise prices. It's a profit deal. If you had a business and your costs...

Joe, you may well be right about the 3x thing. I am not a follower of his particular methods, I just read some of his comments from time to time. That particular one that I remember has opened up my thinking about the markets. Advice about avoiding excessive risk is always good advice so I...

One thing that Jack Hershey said in a post somewhere here has helped my trading immensely. It was along the lines of just step back and take a look at how much the market is offering every day thru all the rises and falls. Then ask yourself how much of that are you getting? What things do you...

You would be right. Weather is king this time of year in the Ags. Neither Ben, the WSJ nor the Gov't can control that, but the market definitely responds to it. The market responds very quickly this time of year, every year. This is always the most volatile part of the year for the grains.