Buying Sugar

[ballsofgold]

RJO has a platform MACD where u can trade electornically, but it is a little outdated..............the are currently upgrading and should be launching there new platform soon.

YOu can trade ANTYING on it, bc it even routes orders to the floor where their brokers take the orders on their wireless devices.

 

[rosy2]

has anyone looked at the sugar etf traded on xetra?

http://etfsecurities.com/en/welcome.asp

 

[bunkinc]

Quote from huge230:

I dont trade commodities at all but am interested. I am looking at sugar futures SB on IB and i go to pull up a chart and it looks as if it hardly ever trades and with very small volume. I know this can not be the case but why does the IB chart show up like this?

NYMEX softs clones bid/ask spreads are getting better through MMs, though still very light on volume. Was enough for me to have a go with a one-lot sugar If the mm's go away in the middle of my trade, damage will be contained.

Apparently IB will not (for the time being) be offering nybot/ice softs. Shame on them.

Here's coffee earlier today (and cotton, sugar #11 were just as good):

 

[bunkinc]

coffee:

 

[Drew Klein]

Quote from huge230:

Thanks for the reply. If I was to wet my whistle with some commodity trading what futures offer decent volume which i can trade at IB?

Electronic softs (ICE, NYMEX) are getting bigger and bigger by the day...last estimates was that they were about 20% of the total daily volume...

So you know, sugar #11 is a heavily traded contract and is quite liquid. The May contract (SBK7) as of today had an OI of 264,000+ and a volume of 56,000+

 

[bunkinc]

Quote from bunkinc:


Apparently IB will not (for the time being) be offering nybot/ice softs.

ATTN IB users: go here to vote for adding nybot/ice softs:

http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/poll/poll.php

They're already getting plenty of action:

"NYBOT Softs Set New Electronic Trading Record Of Nearly 95,000"