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Do you have a plan for hedging? I'm assuming you mean you shorted 2x on the put side.. if something messed up happens/had happened were you just going to eat the loss?

If there is a downgrade of US credit what time is it likely to be announced at? Pre/post or during market hours?

What "really" happened to DGIT at 3pm this afternoon?

If I create a Futures brokerage account with Tradestation does that let me run backtests on stocks/stock options? Or do they restrict your historical data access to whatever account type you have setup? Thanks in advance!

No I wouldn't use a technical strategy I am interested in trading just based off of the news but in a short term timeframe (eg not long term fundamental analysis).

Is there anyone out there who makes a living trading based on news alone? Is having a good source of news, getting it fast enough, and learning to interpret it enough to constitute an edge?

that's only funny if the URL doesnt give it away

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What charting/execution software do you use to trade futures spreads?

thanks for your replies, i'm using interactive brokers and i sent it to SMART. it wasnt premarket...it was probably around 10:30 am EST.

i figured doing 100 shares would avoid this problem...but does anyone know what actually happened? i was surprised i could get a fill so far away from the market

Today I submitted an order to buy 1 share of VWO at market when it was 58.05. My fill came back a few seconds later at 59.05 but the price was still 58.05... is this some kind of penalty for submitting so few shares?

Hi, I've been a lurker on this forum for quite some time and I've just recently started trading myself (less than 1 month ago). I thought I would make a post about my experiences and where I'm coming from, just in case anyone has any advice or my experience matches with anyone else's. So...

Thanks for your responses. He definitely doesn't use eurex and only trades the ES at CME. Any other theories?

Hi, I was talking to someone earlier today who said he was getting $1.90 RT (yes, RT, not per side) commissions on trading the ES. I'm not sure how he is doing that since he is a very low volume retail trader and moreover he is really a penny pincher (so if it's anything involving paying a...