Best trendy futures

In your own opinion:

1) what futures market give the largest and smoothest intraday trends, with good liquidlity?

2) what futures market do you trade? And why do you trade them?

Just list the conditions/situations or state your cases if your answer is a bit complex.

Thank you. :D
 
dax and russel have good intra day volatility, and you can trade anywhere around 10 cars a clip. Dax more like 5 cars. This size assumes almost no slipage.

For large liquidity you have DJ Euro Stoxx and S&P emini, there you can trade easily 50 cars a clip.

redduke
 
Quote from Trader_Herry:
In your own opinion:

1) what futures market give the largest and smoothest intraday trends, with good liquidity?

2) what futures market do you trade? And why do you trade them?

Just list the conditions/situations or state your cases if your answer is a bit complex.

Thank you. :D
Here comes that word 'trend' again. What you are talking about intraday is volatility. Of course if you want to call as 'trends', the gyrations, up and down, that occur that is up to you. A sustained direction is better utilized by playing only the bigger gyration/s of the trading day.

For your purposes YM will give you both liquidity and often
strong volatility.
:)
 
Quote from Trader_Herry:



1) what futures market give the largest and smoothest intraday trends, with good liquidlity?

2) what futures market do you trade? And why do you trade them?

nothing intraday but over a period of days oil, heat, grain calendar spreads all trend well. the NQ(2)/ES spread looks great too.
 
Quote from Cheese:

Here comes that word 'trend' again. What you are talking about intraday is volatility. Of course if you want to call as 'trends', the gyrations, up and down, that occur that is up to you. A sustained direction is better utilized by playing only the bigger gyration/s of the trading day.

For your purposes YM will give you both liquidity and often
strong volatility.
:)

Oh, sorry.

But how about calling them intraday trends? :D

By the way, I prefer a smooth one-way volatility instead of swinging up and down.
 
Quote from RedDuke:

dax and russel have good intra day volatility, and you can trade anywhere around 10 cars a clip. Dax more like 5 cars. This size assumes almost no slipage.

For large liquidity you have DJ Euro Stoxx and S&P emini, there you can trade easily 50 cars a clip.

redduke

S&P E-mini is the most liquid market in the world. I don't investigate much, however, the market seems to be quite choppy.

What do you think?

I have no idea about DJ Euro Stoxx. What is its volatility? How does it perform?
 
the only reason for some1 to trade es is if he's really good at it and can take advantage of the enormous liquidity available or if he's on his way to become really good at it; otherwise this is imo the worse contract traded in us.
 
This was posted by Acrary, although it's obviously not intraday it may still be useful to you.

Trendiness Report starting Jan. 1996 ending Dec. 2005
at least 10 days in the trend

1. Mini Value Line
2. Nikkei Index
3. 90 Day T-Bill
4. Short Sterling
5. Japanese Yen
6. Palladium
7. Fed Funds
8. Australian Dollar
9. Goldman Sachs C.I.
10. Soybean Meal
11. British Pound
12. Platinum
13. CRB Futures
14. Euro
15. Pork Bellies
16. Swiss Franc
17. Dollar Index
18. Corn
19. Lumber
20. Eurodollars
21. Gold
22. NYSE Comp.
23. KC Wheat
24. Mexican Peso
25. Soybeans
26. Natural Gas
27. Cocoa
28. Feeder Cattle
29. Oats
30. Canadian Dollar
31. Orange Juice
32. Muni Bonds
33. Minn Wheat
34. Heating Oil #2
35. Copper
36. S&P 400 Midcap
37. Live Hogs
38. Rough Rice
39. T-notes
40. Unleaded Gas
41. Crude Oil
42. Russell 2000
43. Live Cattle
44. Soybean Oil
45. Cotton #2
46. Sugar #11
47. Silver
48. Wheat
49. Dax Index
50. Emini Nasdaq
51. T-bonds
52. S&P 500
53. German Bund
54. Coffee
55. Nasdaq 100
56. 5 YR T-Notes
57. Long Gilt Bond
58. FTSE 100 Index
59. Dow Jones Index
60. 10 YR T-Notes
61. Emini S&P 500
 
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