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Can't trade this thing anymore. I'm not the worlds best trader but I'm smart enough to make a connection between knowing what instruments consistently cost me money. I feel that GC requires stellar entries or huge stops just to make any kind of consistent profit and I'm just not into that as a...

A lot of HFT strategies just flat out front run the market. You can bias their risk downwards greatly.

Further and further into the jungle we go... hope you've got a good machete.

Seeing as one of the major events this year which affected the US markets was the whole Greece thing - and how that relates to the Eurozone, and hence Euro, I'd say this correlation, if any, is dependent and not necessarily relatable on a long-term scale.

Translation: it sells data.

"anticipates that it will be appropriate" Such non-action words. Literally, anticipate, at a later point based on future external data, that *then* it will, not necessarily raise, but be appropriate to raise at that point.

BTW: Am I the only one that notices stop orders don't work with ICS positions? I know they've had issues (and still continue to) with *combo* positions and stops (which IMO is purely because they haven't taken the time to implement it), but an ICS position is not a combo, regardless of what TWS...

Is there a possibility that it's because they're taking on way more risk than most of the volatility selling funds you've seen? I mean these things are 90-95% probability bets - much like the CHF peg was.

Gold at 13000 sounds pretty ludicrous. There's probably all manner of things which would kick in before that. Personally I've just given up trying to trade GC, too many bad trades and other BS happening with it. I don't have a good read on it.

Sounds like another LTCM.

Missed a KC long by 4 ticks and I had been stalking this upside break for a while now. Irked to say the least.

tommo, this brings up an interesting point per our earlier discussions on cancellation fees and how those may affect spread traders. Perhaps the solution is somewhat of a compromise in that cancellation fees apply only to orders that are near the visible book by some n amount of ticks. That way...

'97 Civic motherfucker!

I think he meant sell after the breakout meaning a "on the breakout" occurrence, like a traditional support/resistance breakout.

Anyone know what this is about? I've noticed it semi-often in certain situations (I do see it more often in GBP, like real often) and it seems to me like price trying to be held in place to either ping pong back and forth or for some other reason (the two larger bid and ask levels with...

Currently 95.5 in AH. We'll see how things go tomorrow.

I think we should list all the ICS spreads that CQG offers that IB doesn't and submit everything in one go so we can get this out of the way rather than a 1 by 1 error prone thing. I'm pretty sure they're missing the various soybean ICS, anyone else?

Horseshit market.

I think what cdcaveman is trying to say is that there is literally not many safe avenues from which to make a steady return right now. Most people will say "the market, dummy!" but that's hardly safe. The only people benefitting from this monetary policy are the same ones who've always benefitted.