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Ok much clearer now. ;) It's at 14 now. Does that means gas will go up or oil will come down? I just went long nov oil after seeing it trade at a premium.

I noticed it too. A while ago I noticed gold's decline was like 20% but silver's was closer to 50%. So my thinking was that silver would outperform. This is pretty much opposite of how everyone else usually thinks especially about stocks (they say to pick the stock that went down the least)...

Sorry I'm not sure what that means.

Can I ask how you figured that out? I'd like to be able to see that kind of thing myself. I've never done spreads before. Gas has reversed. Do they run stops with futures like in stocks? Because it dropped down big time and then reversed. Glad I held on.

Gas broke out of its down trend and is currently pulling back. I'm long gas from 7.28 & 7.91. I'm considering adding to my position as soon as it turns up again. We're heading into the season for natural gas, and oil is taking off. Why does gas seem to be out of gas? ;)

i want to second the motion to ditch fidelity. I originally went there for their mutual funds & stocks all in one place. As I got into trading their $8 commissions got expensive quickly. So I called them and asked for a better commission, they said no. So I said I'd have to do my trading...

1 - makes sense. This was my idea earlier this week when I went long the euro. But it wasn't everyone's idea. The euro went down and the dollar went up. But now it looks like the euro is in the right direction (up). 2 - This is precisely why I went long gas. I could see the support on...

Is it because adding dollars causes inflation? I'm pretty new to this (just started swing trading futures last week), and believe it or not this was my only my second week trading currency futures. Today the euro went from +2000 to -1000 now to +1784 for 1 contract. That seems crazy. It did...

I just started swing trading futures last week. Thursday actually. I was up quite a bit by wed and then the dollar, euro, yen, pound, oil, gas, and gold all reversed on me! What a case of bad luck!! I will finish today positive but only at 1/3 of what I had topped out this week. If I...

What's going on with oil? Is this a short squeeze? Or is it a trend change?

It means the sellers all sold and there is no one left to sell which means the price then reverses. Once it goes higher than either more sellers will be attracted and it'll go back down, or the rise will attract more buyers and it'll go up. Best to sit back and see who wins and enter on a...

It's been a long wait but patience paid off! Now my question is can I add to my long position? Will price pullback? Believe it or not this is my first gold trade and I'm not sure what to do.

Finally the dollar sinks. This makes sense. My intuition was just a few days early..

I don't understand. I wanted CRB futures which I understand is CR. I can't get any data for CR and IB says they don't have it. For CI I do get data. I'm not sure what CI is, if it's similar to CRB index or not. so for now I don't mess with it.

I spoke with IB.. they do not offer CRB index. They only have CCI. Apparently it's not the same but I'm not sure.

Sorry, it was my first time doing an attachment and the forum doesn't allow one to modify the attachment once it's made, NOR preview it. I suggest writing to the forum administrators to ask for this feature.

The dollar is back to where it started (-0.55%) and the euro almost back (0.45%). Too bad I went long on euro before it corrected. :(

What is market PRT? I thought IB had the lowest commissions. Can you suggest someone better?

This is interesting. I can see people selling stocks and putting money in cash (dollars). But for the dollar to rise, wouldn't people have to sell other currencies to get dollars? I'm not sure exactly how that works behind the scenes. If someone can recommend a book about this sort of...