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$2.25 per contract.yeah I’ve been told it’s high, but don’t care much, first off it’s a minuscule % of the trade, second , more important I’m not trading a lot. I may not trade at all, I’m just feeling my way thru it with a paper money account If I ever get serious about it I would look for...

OK, I could use some help understanding… trading paper money, just screwing around trying to learn from experience. ( no wise ass comments please I know this will be an abortion if I start treating real money in the next month or two. I won’t do that until I know wtf I’m doing LOL)… sold short...

maybe it’s because I’m not a professional trader or don’t trade that often. But it doesn’t bother me. If I buy (or sell) 5 contracts, I’m putting up $7150. Transaction costs are $34.80 round trip. That’s just under 1/2 a %. Who cares. of course if I was a professional, or otherwise doing 50...

LOLOL Well done DD. And frankly, I could not disagree one bit.

$2.25 + $1.19 exchange fee. I don’t even know if I’m gonna trade them, just got approved for the hell of it. May trade futures may not. Right now I’m just doing PaperMoney

Thanks. What am I supposed to do with it.

ok, yes, I get that it’s possible. Extreme conditions. Which I know I can’t count on never happening

Thanks for the response, I’m still learning. Not really a trader, more a hobbyist. (Retired CFP). at TD margin requirement is $1530 for micro e mini sp500

‘Sprain how with an example. It seems to me if Theyve got a minimum margin maintenance requirement, I’m going to get a margin call way before I am negative equity, I don’t meet the call, they sell me out and I list my investment in that particular trade (which would never be a large part of the...

ok, so what you are saying, is if for exa,ple, I buy a futures contract today, /ES, /NQ, /MES, whatever, I’m going to basically pay the value of the underlying index, there won’t be a time premium, as in options, correct? I actually just looked at /MES and SPX and the difference is minuscule ...

spend some time reading his tweets watching his videos. Your ignorance will become less apparent

futures expire every 3 months how is that not an Expiration, which means you will have time decay. Not debating, just trying to learn

correct me if I am wrong… my understanding is if you by (or short) futures, and you get a margin call, you can just not meet the margin call and they’ll sell you out, so you CAN Limit your loss to what you put in. No?

Not necessarily, use of /ES could be speculation rather than hedging. I’m learning about futures, and that’s why I posted it here, the focus of my question was futures. The use of OEX , I don’t know where that came from, I used to trade OEX options decades ago, so it’s the first thing I thought...

Or QQQ or SPY Options. OEX IS S&P 100, I assume your question was a joke, my using it as a reference was a error, meant SPY.

Even a few long term investors, who just want to protect capial using charts. But yeah, i agree with the OP, NOT THAT ANYBODY WILL OR SHOULD CARE.

Can you mark up this chart with SoyUnGanador/Peradors market calls?

I'm learning a little dangerous knowledge about trading futures. Went through a learning module on TD website for the basics. Here's what i am not clear on.... What are you accomplishing trading, for example /ES vs OEX options?

There is so much close mindedness in this thread. Books may not get you anywhere, but everybody learns differently and May get profitradingjourney far along in the path. How do you know how he learns. maybe he learns from books because he enjoys reading books. as far as a Minervini and the...

Well said