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    Gold futures for Friday

    GLD ( the gold ETF ) will be trading ( or should be trading ) as far as futures go ... ECBOT has futures in gold ( and silver ) and they are open for trading right now and will be until early friday afternoon ps ... comex is trading overnight and if the "pit" ( open outcry )...
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    IB helpdesk closed tonight ?

    I am based in the USA so that number is no good for me anyway ... I called the GLOBEX control center myself to ask some questions on trades executed tonight
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    IB helpdesk closed tonight ?

    I am confused ... usually when USA office is closed either HK or Europe office is open for customer queries tonight ... all offices are closed ? let me double check my phone numbers for IB :)
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    The Oil Bottom Trade

    oops ... looks like the API #'s were not so good ? bloomberg has this headline -Oil Falls on Report Showing U.S. Oil, Gasoline Supply Gains-
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    comex members to join the party

    more news from nymex www.nymex.com -New York, N.Y., November 21, 2006 — The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. announced today that it will expand COMEX metals electronic trading to include side by side trading, COMEX miNYs, Asian metals, and London metals futures contracts on the CME...
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    Hey IB , how about a new highs/new lows scan

    is there a way that a TWS user can remove any "Bad HI - LO" data from his page? ( i.e. GLD today shows a high of $66.25 ) this is perhaps as much as $4.00 higher than the "real high" at this time of the day
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    Platinum

    curious what the gold / plat ratio chart is looking like these days by the way ... lease rates for platinum have jumped !
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    comex members to join the party

    I guess once the members saw NMX trading $130 yesterday they had to vote yes ... seats were going for 50-100K only a few yrs ago ... but then gold was trading sub $300 www.nymex.com -NEW YORK, NY, November 20, 2006 — At a special meeting held today, COMEX seat owners voted to approve a...
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    Will you leave a legacy?

    your trading legacy only matters to traders your non trading legacy will matter more to the world at large
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    Anyone have experience with Bloomberg?

    thanks ... I will try this month to visit my local bloomberg terminal and test out the CORR function ( or call the help desk ) :p
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    NMX : Is it worth putting in a market buy order?

    ok ... perhaps my thinking here is wrong as the float is so low compared to the other exchanges NMX is being compared to ? :confused:
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    Anyone have experience with Bloomberg?

    can one do correlation studies over say a 6 month , one yr or longer time frame with any financial instrument against another using a Bloomberg Terminal ?
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    NMX : Is it worth putting in a market buy order?

    I have no sour grapes ... but this IPO will fall back to earth at some point in time the question is how low can it go and from what high point ? $150 * fridays high * , $200 , $250 ? ( in the early 1980's more than one person told me that NYMEX membership was cheap - heck who...
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    NMX : Is it worth putting in a market buy order?

    just curious what the spread was and slippage friday $50 cents - $1.00 wide spread ? did the specialist in NMX keep an orderly market in the first hour , or later on in the day ? ( i.e. could someone have routed to NYSE instead of ECN's and not have paid up to get in or out of a...
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    How about NMX?

    goog was done dutch auction ... you cannot compare NMX to GOOG in my opinion hopefully though NMX will open steady or trade higher monday am as I nibbled on ICE late AH :p
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    Correlated futures pairs

    gold / silver is another example ps I do not think crude / nat gas is so highly correlated as crude / heating oil
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    Daily Trading Strategies on Gold/Forex

    those XAU sell programs sure can be something ! and if it was not a sell program then what the heck was it ? that was some of the longest sustained selling I have seen in quite some time in the miners today :eek:
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    searching for squiggles

    is there some sort of A.I. software or pattern recognition software that lets me tell it what type of T.A. pattern ( I shall call it a squiggle ) I am looking for and in what time frame ?
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    What happened to gold at 6:39EST (13 nov)?

    this my friend is one of the problems of screen trading "hidden stops" were most likely triggered and those cascaded onto others ... like a pebble skimming a pond the reason why the markets bounced back so quickly is obvious ... the markets should not have gotten that low in the first...
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    Percentage of Successful Trader

    its even harder to find a trader who is successful year after year after year ... sometimes markets change or traders change
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