Training courses might help in making a trader more disciplined, but my experience shows that most of the discipline, or lack thereof, comes through during actual trading in any case.
I except airline stocks to soar when the oil price decreases, but it also decreases due to slackening demand, which does translate into less potential passengers, too... overall, a mixed bag, I don't suspect there's too much correlation here.
I am actually on Skype with my friend and I asked him the same question, since you bring up a good point. He says that he contacted CQG in Moscow about this in the spring and was told that they have reserve servers set up in the main financial centres (Singapore, Tokyo, London, New York...
I never thought I would say this, but it does finally seem that very soon ... the euro may be history. It's like a marriage of 17 people -- imagine how hard it would be to have 16 wives and you'll get my point. :)
My friend uses the Ninja Trader platform with CQG which is available at AMP Futures and he says it works like a watch, to use a russian saying (he was offered Zen-Fire as an alternative and turned it down)... in other words, he says it's seamless, but you must still pay extra for the Chart...
I don't think the S&P downgrade changed anything... it's still the same ol' bonds, only at a higher rate for the U.S... big woop... it's still the safest thing out there when compared to all the alternatives.
You should trade the month which you feel most comfortable with... usually for most traders this means the month which has more liquidity. Near the expiration of one contract the other gains more and more volume until the old contracts goes to delivery. P.S. Yes,if you don't know this you should...
The problem is that no matter what we do, USPS will still lose money... my U.S. friend says that much of his mail is wrongly delivered to neighbours in the next apartment, so if they can't deliver mail properly, they surely can't get their finances straight. Sad but true.
My friend has an account at AMP and he is in a Russian trading group... he says most of the traders in the trading room use Ninja + CQG now, partly because it seems faster and partly because of lower commissions when compared to Zen. I don't know about Ninja + TT...
You should have seen the riots here in Kazakhstan at the end of the 1980s... London pales in comparison to the ethnic bloodshed that went on here between Russians and Kazaks...