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Equities go down fixed income goes up - been that way since forever.

There have been at least three limit days in lean hog futures during the past ninety days. On August 16 the Oct contract was limit down. Hopefully you can get out.

You do realize that they never get washed and they are essentially sweat rags with ink blobs and malformed dicks scribbled on the back...

Obviously it was not “messaging decency” if so many took offense.

Yes, you’re correct and I meant “highly negative” when I originally worded that post / thanks so much for the correction.

It’s a proprietary technical indicator coded for use with the eSignal or CQG charting platforms. A few clients have adapted it for the Bloomberg Professional Terminal. As I mentioned previously - the indicator has to agree with four other rules-based conditions in order to take a buy or sell...

True... with an important caveat. If you can find HIGHLY negative instruments (like >90% negative daily close-on-close for at least six months otr) then that is most useful as well.

True. :thumbsup: I put out HH/HL’s and LL/LH’s out there because it has really held up well over the years and from my experience it has withstood the test of time. It is by no means a “holy grail” (no such thing) but I consider it to be one of the better trading concepts I’ve come across...

Yep, options on futures gets you blended capital gains tax treatment which is significant

Again, look at the daily close-on-close correlations relationships between each of the products you listed in your OP and you will have answered your own question and learned something valuable in the process

FUTURES SPREADS Yes - there are quite literally many thousands of exchange supported intra market futures spread combinations. And several hundred inter market futures spread combinations. Intra Market example: Mar20-Jun20-Sept20 Crude Oil Butterfly (CME Nymex) Inter Market example: Dec 21...

This poll requires LGBT compliant gender pronouns for today’s inclusive society. Zir Zirs :D

Barclays for sure :D I’d guess the sale has more to do with improving capital leverage and liquidity ratios.

Which should tell you all you need to know about the profitability in being an Options Market Maker in today’s automated and crowded options markets.

Do a deep dive into both futures and options for yourself. They are different beasts. Different personalities with different competency levels are going to give different answers. One isn’t “easier” than another - but you have quite a bit of flexibility with options; especially with options...

If you did your homework using the correlation tools so generously provided by other members in your thread - you’d understand that the positions you described in your OP are just compounded Delta directional risk.

You don’t necessarily need to interpret complex candlestick formations or have a tricked out indicator package in order to have higher reliability when it comes to anticipating price action. David Ellis - one of the best traders I’ve ever met, taught me an amazingly effective trade rule. When I...

It’s been AWHILE since I have day traded. A couple of things I used to try to guard against were: 1. Over trading, or 2. Waiting for a “lull” in the market in order to buy a bid or sell an offer and flip it for a tic or two - it’s a false sense of security. As you are painfully aware -...

In order to spread trade inter market positions with options and futures you will have to execute separate trades. Each individual component of a spread is called a “leg” in trading parlance. You want there to be seconds - not minutes, hours, or days during the course of getting into then...

If your positions are live I think you should now get out of your spread at an advantageous level and start paper trading / modeling.