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http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/energy/natural-gas/natural-gas_contractSpecs_options.html#prodType=AME 2:30 p.m. est is for open outcry but globex is 24 hrs except for a 45 min maintenance period - does this explain it?

look into tradestation and their radarscanner - they might be able to scan for intraday vol. most traders buy a separate charting program and/or data feed and use their broker solely for execution b/c it's hard if not impossible for a broker to be great at all three - and if they were the price...

re calling the bottom, i won't repeat what i already posted but i'll add this - you can put on whatever trade you want as long as you have an exit strategy. NG is at 2.7 so say you say "ok this is a bottom" just put a stop a couple ATR below. re it going back to 14, for the love of God, pls...

i don't know what kinda deal you struck w/ rcg but advantage, besides being known as a small but professional firm for large individual traders, is known also for their rock bottom rates.

since it's settled you're basically not clearing thru gs unless you have a lot of money, look into bloomberg tradebook if you want multi asset trading capability. agree w/ previous poster who wonders why more people can't just pick up phone or call esp when it would take less time than to...

some of us have even less money than that - can we have virtual coffee instead like type of coffee in goog and look at images maybe? i only responded b/c this thread is rapidly descending into the lower depths of uselessness. two people can have diff def of delta and its usefulness but the...

+1 to stay w/ TOS. once the form is in you're set. although you could get lower commissions for options you won't find a better options trading platform. as much as it pains me to say it, i prefer TOS to bloomberg for options.

first off, BAC and MER couldn't find their ass w/ two hands and a flashlight so i don't listen to their price targets. second, as others have correctly said, NO ONE knows how low/high a security will go or how will it will take to get there. if you pull up a 6 month chart of NG you see the...

a couple of thoughts... re nt not doing options or spreads, i agree. it should only be used for futures. re the performance of the actual program, they continue to make improvements (nt 7 the latest release) is a lot better in terms of cpu resource utilization. re bbg, most users don't...

comparing bbg and nt (or any other front end software) is like apples and oranges. bbg gives you EVERYTHING you could ever want albeit for a steep monthly fee (approx $1900 plus certain data fees). it's widely known that most bbg users use less than 10% of its functionality of a daily basis...

it depends how what time frame you trade in (e.g. if you scalp and/or use tick/volume charts then i strongly suggest you buy a separate data feed from iqfeed or kinetick if you use nt). the data feed you get w/ your broker like ib or tda (former tos) is adequate IF you are trading on a higher...

i know how to fund an insurance fund for futures like sipc - whenever a trader makes a mistake, falsely accuses his broker of corruption on a public forum and then claims that his career profession prevents him from ever making mistakes then that trader's account should be "donated" to the...

not to create arguments on a sat morning but here's my $0.02... re "CME is all over them"...my trust in cme is shaken after the mf incident. i still trust that they would be financially able to act as a counterparty to every trade however my trust in their ability to run the back office as...

periods of contraction lead to periods of expansion. as goose would say from top gun, don't get bored or do something stupid during these "boring" times b/c you know a huge move is coming you just have to wait for it.

or more preferable, if you're a billionaire who runs a hedge fund, return all of your investors' money and trade for yourself and have a staff of one:D

are your conditional orders mkt or limit? e.g. if spy hits 126 sell jan 126 call but if it's a mkt order you could get screwed esp w/ illiquid options.

nice w/ the trader monthly reference! i remember reading that every month and all of us here on et would make fund of it b/c it was basically a watch catalog that had a few trading articles in it. although i did find johnny chan's insights from the poker world useful. how many traders saw...

i'm going to stop speculating re pnsn. i have no idea if they're going to go belly up - that's the whole point - no one knows. mf was one of the biggest fcm's before they blew up just like bsc and leh. anyways even using that 12% hypo haircut, it's not just the small haircut that matters that...

bob, while everything you said is 100% accurate, as the poster below mentioned it doesn't protect against a large break in the mkt. this is a topic i have spent a lot of time thinking about and i've come to the same conclusion many of you already have: there is no cheap way to hedge from a large...

it's not just atr that matters it's the liquidity although a high atr usually attracts traders which provides liquidity.