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That is a major jackup by CME Group for YM margin. Before this YM always had more leverage than ES. 16.2% margin for YM to contract value. 14.2% margin for ES to contract value.

Considering that the low of the day was 816.75 and your system was long from EOD 11/11/08, MOC orders are the least of your worries with this trading system. In the 4 trades so far I see way too much risk for the return. Let's see what the next 26 trades are like.

Total nonsense. Tulving.com has 1000 oz bars of silver for $0.59 over spot (about 6% premium).

It is the "carried interest" tax break.

Big demand for gold in Saudi Arabia: "RIYADH: Police arrested a middle-aged Saudi man who robbed 15 kilograms of gold from a jewelry salesman in the Naseem district of Riyadh on Saturday, press reports said yesterday. Officers tracked the suspect to his home in the district and retrieved...

Jérôme Kerviel started a hedge fund to trade the ES overnight.

But that leftover toxic waste is hard to sell.:D

Just update the virus definitions every day or you can be first on your block with a new virus.

Why play with options when you can buy or sell the stock for 2.50? The chart for MF looks like a death spiral.

http://www.cmegroup.com/tools-information/holiday-calendar/index.html

Coppering suckers' bets is an age old way of making money. :D

What percentage of expiring COMEX gold contracts result in delivery? I doubt that even 20% of the current open interest will want delivery. Traders trade gold futures because they want to speculate on the price movement, not because they want the actual gold. Anyone who wants actual gold in...

From the New York Times Nov 10, 2008: "Roy Niederhoffer, founder of R. G. Niederhoffer Capital Management, whose more famous brother, Victor, made and then lost a fortune trading, is up more than 50 percent. To predict how investors will behave, Roy Niederhoffer, who majored in neuroscience...

No problem.

What YM data are you looking at? Over past 10 trading days YM has average daily range of 505 points and over past 20 trading days it is 622 points.

Probably because it was a minor event. "The settlement price on expiry of the contract was Rs 9,622 for 8 gm (including the making charges of Rs 200 for 10 gm). Open interest on the expiry date was 11,839 coins, of which 10,908 coins (about 92 per cent) went into delivery, while the others...

With actual Fed Funds at the 0.23% level for 5 days IB customers are getting zero interest paid on their cash. Sure would be nice to have money market funds available.

Answer #3 has it backwards. You get your sells filled without slippage in an advancing market and your buys filled without slippage in an declining market. In those situations, if the market is moving fast enough you can get slippage in your favor.

The trade went 42.75 points against you before you netted your 15.75 points. Is this typical for this trading system? From just the first trade, I know I don't have the stomach or risk capital for this system's style of swing trading.

Just be patriotic and pay more taxes. Or take some capital losses to offset the capital gains.