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Some thoughts/insights from my colleague John Thorpe: am very spooked by the rising VIX with stocks here.... Looking out at the next few month contracts ...they are all elevated (surely due to election hedges)...they will either converge up or converge down...or in the middle...who knows not...

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@Con1991 , what is the reasoning? What specific markets? they all have different dynamics, Cash settled, deliverable?, are these "illiquids" you are trading in the delivery period? Does the particular market have price limits?no price limits? what is the point to trading these markets? what...

Joe Easton is a senior broker with Cannon and had the following to share: Scalping is considered short term trading. This could be thousands of times per day or 1 or two times per day, the definition is more about the period of time in the trade. Typically scalping is is for smaller risk and...

Day Trading 202: Tight Stops? Wide Stops? Which One Should I Use? Entry Signals Are Very Important But Just As Important If Not More Is Trade Management. By: Ilan Levy-Mayer, Cannon Trading Commodities Broker & VP Today I decided to touch more on an educational feature rather than provide a...

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Further metals margins increases - August 11th, 2020: GC from $9570 --> $10,230 SI from $12,650 --> $14,575

SP futures only trading at night time ( globex session) for the full size. SP options work and trade on the pit during the day session. The ES options and futures are definitely the way to trade SP500 versus the old "big contract"

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From my colleague Joe Easton: Nasdaq futures are trading at an all- time high. I would suggest trading with limited risk on these instances. By either buying puts or buying protective calls. Being naked short is very risky. Look at weekly options look at possible spreads with the ES or YM

another opinion, this one from my colleague John Thorpe: You have to own things that survive currency debasement. Precious metals and U.S. Treasuries. Bid to covers should increase during the weekly auctions for many reasons in this current environment. The Fed’s own Jay Powell had said in...

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can you send a screen shot of the chart you are using? Some markets trend better than others at times. Pick out a few different years to test out. Assume enough for slippage and commissions. I am happy to assist in private if you like.

what years have you tested so far? for indices try using 15 minutes or 30 minutes hourly on euro

Time frame you are using? Many markets will go between trending periods and consolidation periods. The better mix you have more chances to catch a few trending markets. What are the indicators based on?

Hello Millionaire_Raj The answer to all the above is yes. You can do vertical, calendar, sell premium etc. all with exchange minimum margins. Day trading on ES with $1000 day trading margins. Anything else is exchange min margins. I am happy to discuss privately as well if you like.

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Using correlation only is not a trading technique in our opinion. However, noticing short term correlations or negative correlations as they take place and using it as a secondary confirmation/clue is something worth exploring like the following out of memory that I noticed for short term...

I asked my colleague John Thorpe on his thoughts: The inter market correlations that MRCI puts together over the Past 180 days are correlative values or Negative correlative values on a daily closing basis only, not over the course of a few days. The grid shown several times in this thread...

I wish I would have bought at 1200 lol....I did not. put on some option spreads around 1600. My model been showing buy signals only for past 3 months or so