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Does anyone know anything about a firm called Black Diamond Futures, a proprietary futures trading firm which, according to its website has offices in Chicago and London? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.

From the mouth of Nison -- paraphrased: usually it is a good idea to wait until the signal bar closes. However, let's say you are looking to get into a long trade on a bullish engulfing pattern, and there happens to be another candle some bars back, say a rising window or a southern doji to...

who want's to know? PM me. . . . .beans to be spilled. . . .

One of the things you will hear Steve Nison say himself -- I just attended one of his seminars -- is that candlestick chart patterns are not necessarily signals, in and of themselves. Rather, they often indicate trend terminations, as opposed to outright reversals. Moreover, some of the candle...

Another interesting little factoid. . . . . . Eurex is owned by Deutsche Boerse. . . . . . which, in turn, is a publicly held company in which a relatively large interest is held by US and UK institutions. Go figure. . . . .

There is something very interesting as it relates to the products Eurex plans to launch in the US and the idea of market share. Think about the volume of interest rate futures traded in relation to the volume/size of the cash market for interest rate products. I don't have the exact...

Anyone catch a nice piece of today's quick rip down? The Dow went down 20 points in about a minute at 1:13 CDT then proceeded to fall another 50 within the following 20 minutes. The S & P went down about 7 handles in the same time. Yeeee Haaaaaa! Let's have some more of that!

Was considering trying this market out. Anyone have any experience trading the CAC 40 future?

Why on earth would anyone want to trade the e-mini Dow? The only thing that it is good for, possibly, is to learn discipline, i.e., to quickly get out of a position when it starts to against you. It behaves erratically. And even if you are using a super-fast platform, i.e. TT's X-Trader...

holy cow! from 1030 to 999 in an oh so short time. . . . . . . wheeeeeeeeeee! was someone recently saying that the SP was going up?

some one else said "how high?" My question is: "How low?"

a point of clarification. . . . . X-Trader will show as many levels of the market as the exchange in question will transmit. For Eurex and CBOT, X-Trader will show 10 levels on each side. For the CME, it goes five deep on each side. For the JGB, I have heard, it will show only three levels on...

when you are in Chicago, check out The Martini Bar. Right behind the CBOT and immediately east of the CBOE, on Van Buren Street there is a newsstand right on the corner. The Martini Bar is kind of hidden across the street and immediately to the south. Nice place. One of the bartenders, a...

one of the books you should definitely read is The Disciplined Trader, by Mark Douglas.

I know that if you call them up, you can easily get some time on their simulation system at no cost. Beyond that, Im not sure about what it might take to do much beyond that.

the range in charges for x-trader varies not by broker or firm (unless they up charge you), but by the number of markets viewable at one time. If you have two markets, it's around 950, just one 650. With x-trader pro, you get four markets, the auto-spreader and auto-trader. the pro version...

anyone around here have any experience with the LIFFE/Eurex pit-screen arb they made a killing on in London a few years back? any predictions as to whether similar fortunes will be made on a CBOT/Eurex pit-screen arb? Eurex gave it's kick-off presentation today. $0.30 a side, moving lower...

or how about this idea. . . . . . . . . in your charting, what kinds of patterns have you seen in the kelts? have you seen any patterns or confluence with other indicators that lead you to believe that it might be useful?

I've been looking at the er2 and it looks like a sweet little trade. As previous posters have stated, it trends very nicely and has enough volume to get off a 5-lot (maybe not in the afternoon). Only thing is, for a clearing/commission rate of 2.32, our company won't let us trade it. Imagine...

hard to get into. . . . they typically hire very young, hyper-educated types with high-gpa's, etc. meager draw, profit-share starting at 30 (trader)-70 (house) then moving upwards as you make more $$. . . . . and, a portion of the trader's profit share is held back.