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Maybe you are just thinking about this the wrong way. I'll give you quick and dirty traders' view on why these bonds might be rallying above their derivable discounted forward coupon payments and redeemable value. So, the bunds are trading above their net present value, fine. Here is a list...

If you want to swing without exposing yourself to the trump tweets and trade war then you have to use advanced concepts. Things like 'market neutral strategies' and other techniques to 'mitigate systemic risk'. In other words you want to trade a smaller risk profile. If you just go long...

Hardly. Go ahead and quote the article. I dare you to make an argument against anything he says. (out of the top post) You will be in a very tough position. That guy is the realest futures trader there ever was. Traded with the godfather of futures and the CME, Leo Melamed. You are going...

Tradingview is cool, you know I might just try to get something going with that because they have intra-day spreads, but (it's not free) you have to subscribe to the data feeds and the website. ThinkorSwim thinkScript is a free programming language for building studies and is very powerful. You...

I think that there are a couple things at play here. On the one hand, TA always works. Markets almost always behave and react in a similar and recognizable pattern. (e.g. rally, break, consolidation, chop / rally / break....). But, there is more going on and so you can't just say that a...

NQ has the largest dollar volatility and the largest ($20.00) tick size of the index futures. UB is the largest dollar volatility rate future, and both ZB and UB have the large $31.25 tick size. Also, rate futures traded on ECBOT have LESS exchange fee than CME and ECBOT index futures.

Personally, I think you should have an unfair advantage (an edge) first. I like index futures and rate futures personally. There are a lot of things you can check to make sure you are not gonna get blindsided. You can watch the related instruments and chart and check all kinds of spreads and...

Index trading is a professionals game. Pro's know all the TA but they know everything else too. When you day trade the indexes you are trading with the professionals for a bunch of reasons. can lever the index for huge size can spread the indexes index is traded against rate futures on ECBOT...

Basically, this is the wrong question. You are going to get more profit from looking at other things than just minimizing fees and spread. The dollar volatility is important for this, also the tick size is a factor. For 1 lot trades ES, UB, ZB, NQ, YM are all good. But, if you can get...

You have to say how much notional exposure (size) you are talking about per trade.

In the cash stocks the market will usually have to trade through your limit order right? Isn't this because there is so much sub-penny orders/dark pools/multi exchange routing etc? I'm thinking liquid issues here... Isn't their counter to this that they are providing liquidity to the other...

The problem with support and resistance lines is that it's too simple. Look at the volumes, I circled interest rate in red and index in yellow. There is huge amounts of money moving through the rate futures. 7.5 TRILLION DOLLARS (AVERAGE DAILY VOLUME) Think about that for a second...

LOL! I'm sensing a bit of sarcasm in this one gauss!

I used to watch this guy's videos. It seemed like there is some kind of edge in what he was doing. I remember him using tick bars (volume bars) and applying Andrew's pitchforks to the pivots (highs and lows). First off this is just kind of a 'time at price' screening tool. The bars show...

How big is the account? You can buy and sell the indexes so that the maximum volatility (tail risk) is mitigated. It's called an index spread. They do the same thing in the interest rates market. Buy and sell rate futures of different duration to swing without wide open tail risk.

The OP did call this a statistics question. The problem there, is that once you start using technical terminology, people will begin to interpret what you say technically. So him saying that SPY is a second order derivative implies that his assumption is incorrect. However, it is not clear...

Money is invested to solve a problems like Need to fund a retirement Need to protect against inflation Need to diversify returns Need to make a return above cost of capital Carry trade needs a domestic investment and so on. Think of what you want to do, then consider asset class and strategy...

Noob traders are scared of the hard stuff. Here is a list. Cross-Hedging (volatility adjusting offsetting positions) Advanced techniques (spread,hedge,working orders) Know how/when to use all instruments (option,future,EFT,stock) Program your own software/hardware (yourself) Knowing markets...

I'll just comment on this. Since some nice spreads are not exchange supported, you will have to leg them. Examples ES/NKD NQ/YM YM/RTY NQ/ES In general, if you want to trade index spreads or spread rate futures against indexes then you will be legging the spreads. This is one of the reasons...

SPAN is calculated in real-time, so if you close one leg of a spread, the new maintenance margin will be the maintenance margin for the other leg, without a discount (margin relief). However, (AFAIK) closing one leg is the same thing as sending an order to initiate the full position of the...