Futures are a very efficient/fast market and dominated by professionals and bots. I do trade both, but I find a lot more inefficiencies and information in stocks plus the ES is a nice leading indicator for stocks.
Well the bottom is not going to be a V bottom like in some equity charts. Prices will bounce around for a bit at the bottom, you'll have plenty of time to get in. My guess is mid 2009 before we see any uptick in prices.
At my old shop I had the same issue. Some guys would subscribe to Sirius to get CBNC really time.
BTW I do agree with you that CNBC DOES break some tradable news stories.
net up ~ 50
was it a holiday today, such light volume on the es.
i'm going to be taking a lot of days off this month. i'll be doing some admin stuff, because i'm in the process of launching a remote group in jan.