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This paper seems weird to me. First, they found that kurtosis is more important in spreads than outrights. In my understanding, kurtosis in distribution is what makes trend methods work( because of large exceptional winning trades ), but they said that the moving average method worked better...

I've been having only 3 level deep DOM on ICE products for one week now... It's intriguing and only on the bid side. Will reinstall TWS in the WE.

There is a pretty famous thread on this site called the P§L thread... Each contributor posts copy of their daily P§L blotters( and no, they don't fake it ). There are at least half a dozen guys right now that for sure make more than 100 K per year. The guy called nordik must be making 100K...

Hello, I am sure a lot of clicked on this ad on the ET home page. Great way to gather attention.I was thinking it was for a dedicated black box broker. Good stuuf, TSSUPPORT...LOL.

What about people that actually feel the contrary state of mind? I sincerely think trading has made me a more stable, balanced person than before... I wasn't made for the brutal change between physically and cerebraly motivational youth/school to boring relation-based model of corporate...

Geez, after reading this thread, I've got to save some extra ameros for the apero.

A swiss bank needs help from US fed?

physical activity is the most important...I am doing a lot now and I can't recall a time when I 've been that healthy( and thus happy ) in years... I stop trading from 1 pm to 4 pm and I always run at least 30 minutes. Usually it's more like 1 hour. In addition, 2-3 times a week, I go...

I hope you're right, guys. I trade US futures but live in Europe. I had a hedge in place that I covered watching the top formation. I will reestablish a hedge if it goes to 1.6

- Kerviel 's whole trading record was a recipe for disaster : cut winners and let losers run with billions of dollars for 1 year...LOL - The guy from MF Global that shorted 17000 contracts of wheat in the overnight session and "decided" to cover it at market, provoking a gigantic spike, is...

Do they offer 1 month free trial?

It seems TS hasn't made any real improvements for some time( last was forex automation ). They're not offering new markets like ICE, they don't give access to a lot of ECNs for stock traders, they are just creating some useless order entry macros... Even the cruz brothers are not implied in...

You must be kidding... Are you comparing with yahoo finance? LOL... TradeStation has one of the crapiest data feed I know. I scalp with TS Matrix and I have to use IB Booktrader in conjunction to be sure there is no size missing in the book... Watch TS matrix for any product and compare with...

Yes, I am not an expert but I think producers, if they have to enter the market prior to expiration , get hedged asap( in an other expiration ? ). Producers don't like risk at all.

It's part of the new globex policy. Some people were advocating for a smaller tick size on NQ while other wanted it to remain as is. Instead, CME decided to triple 1 level out of 2.

:) For real, why do you enter trades so far ahead? I just watched ZCZ10 against other ZC months of 2008 and 2009 and I don't have a clue of any spread/relative value play here or any advantage to trade ZCZ10 for outrights... Thanks .

Yep, I posted it in the retail firm forum. I woke up this morning( GMT ) with positions I didn't have yesterday( for 6K losses ). I was sure to be flat yesterday at night. The tricky part was that even my statement for yesterday was false , so I was really afraid. Finally, I called the trade...

Hello, If you have unknown positions appearing on TS, don't act on those, even if those positions appears on your daily statement... It's a bug. I just called the trade desk. BYE.

For ag inter commodity reduced margin ratios, here it is: http://cmegroup.com/CmeWeb/html.wrap/wrappedpages/clearing/pbrates/PBISInterCBT-AG.htm?h=2

Hello, I have problems to create shortcuts with IB Booktrader. Whenever I create a shortcut based on booktrader field, it never works. When I create one based on a keyboard key, it works if I restart TWS, but after a few times trading one particular contract, it stops working. This...