Quote from increasenow:
don't want to miss out on the "best contract to trade"
CL is the best contract to trade. Price moves a few ticks off every possible level you can think of, meaning that even if you have no idea how to trade, you can just buy a support level or sell a resistance level with a 3-tick stop and rarely lose more than 4 or 5 ticks with slippage, but every now and then catch a really nice move.
I've never even looked at QM. Mainly because I can't figure out what "QM" stands for, and that disturbs me. I can't trade something whose symbol makes no sense.
Symbols that make sense, so I will trade them:
6E = Euro (E for "Euro" and 6 for "there are 6 major European countries I can name, 5 constantly needing bailouts and 1 constantly rolling its eyes at the them")
AAPL = Apple (the fact it has 2 "A"s instead of 2 "P"s is merely whimsical, not disturbing)
CL = Crude, light (totally sensible; the only symbol that would be more sensible would be "OIL")
ES = Electronic S&P500
Symbols that make no sense, so I will not trade them:
X = ?? (I actually used to trade this stock until it caused a severe brain infection one day involving 40 trades and a max daily loss)
QM = ??
YM = ??
RBOB = ?? (What were they thinking???)