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Water This may seem a little old fashioned but why don’t you just look up the open interest and decide for yourself?

Commodities for newbie’s What’s that Johnny? Are you saying that you found something useful on the exchange site? My point is not that the information is not there. It’s just that it is not designed for traders, newbie’s, or anyone else that has not already sat through four years of...

Commodity & Futures markets See: Commodity Markets . Leo Melamed on the origins of futures says: Johnny has it right. In all cases it initially starts with a paper contract. Privately negotiated, based on the exchange price at the time. Yes! They can deliver when they are short...

Aloha Radolym, So you are coming over from stocks..? The real basics of the game is revealed in something like Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Illustrated Most of what you learned trading stocks will carry over. So, it depends pretty much on where you are at and where you want to go...

Spread Trading: Low-Risk Strategies for Profiting from Market Relationships Have you ever heard of any of these traders? F.McCoy Coan John Newhouse Girard Miller Steve Moore Margery Teller Jeffrey L . Silverman

Smoothing When I dealt with this I was getting my data from C.S.I. Try using continuous charts 91 days out where the bulk of the volume should be for your analysis. Trade the more volatile near contracts, using stops on the near. CSI perputual data.

Seasonals Would you mind telling us about the three? I think Spread Trading was from the floor. A comprehensive list can be found by searching Google for Seasonal Spread Traders Library. Some of these books are reviewed here on Elite.

Euro$ What happened to my chart?

Euro$ Seasonal patterns suggest this spread this time of year.

Melissa from MRCI has posted a new report for Traders. Jerry discusses the stability of seasonal patterns.

Total Volume and Open Interest ....281,969 ..…978,502 Crude Oil Total Volume and Open Interest ..…56,206 ..…630,333 Nat Gas Total Volume and Open Interest ..…61,289 ..…322,061 Gold Total Volume and Open Interest ...492,045 ....9,248,802 Euro$ You need Moore Research...

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ThatÕs one way to put bugs in an Apple?

Hybrid Thread Tony, can you please elaborate on this. Did you think the market was going to stay inverted? That is, did you think that long-term rates were going to stay below short term rates thru tax season? I ask this because, trading spreads we see this normalization is about a...

Spreads Traderjb> I'm looking to get into spreads myself. I did one or two of those before and made some money, nothing special mind you, but it was nice to have made it. Been reading that Keith Shapp book. I feel sorry for you. SchapÕs book has no place for beginners (see review). You...

"Complete Guide to Spread Trading," by Keith Schap ISBN: 0071448446 The greatest American chess champion still alive once wrote a book on how to play chess. After explaining the game, he simply teaches you how to kill. Similarly RossÕs Spreads & Seasonals teaches the game simply, and...

Aloha Cnms2, Welcome to the discussion. Hay C2 you can search on my posts. You will see I am consistent. I trade Spreads. What can I explain to you about my post or just spread trading in general. If my posts contained as little content as the one you posted here I would have a...

Aloha, itÕs nice to hear from you again. I use a lot of charts in my emails. Can you read charts ok? Ok let me get this right, you are asking me if it is OK to Kill your winners. My guess is that Joe has a lot of students who will not stick around unless they get some winners, right away...

You will probably have to put up full margins on both sides. You might lose out on one of the main advantages of trading exchange recognized spreads. The reduced margin is partly responsible for the tremendous "returns on margin."

Pretty much you get your signals and stops, everything else on the perpetual charts, then use the basis on the actual contracts "closing price," to place your orders. CSI says: ÒPerpetual Contract Data can continuously focus on the center of market volume and liquidity, and effectively take...