ES vs ER2 vs NQ vs YM?

[stevegee58]

Now that's kind of funny about ES. I've heard that there'd be a great pissing and moaning if they changed the ES tick size. Apparently some folks are making money faster there with things like they are.

 

[reno4nook]

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[mtzianos]

Quote from stevegee58:

Now that's kind of funny about ES. I've heard that there'd be a great pissing and moaning if they changed the ES tick size. Apparently some folks are making money faster there with things like they are.

Where have you heard it and who would be those folks?

 

[trade4succes]

Quote from stevegee58:

Now that's kind of funny about ES. I've heard that there'd be a great pissing and moaning if they changed the ES tick size. Apparently some folks are making money faster there with things like they are.

for the bastards in the pit it's an easy arb

 

[StreamlineTrade]

Quote from stevegee58:

Now that's kind of funny about ES. I've heard that there'd be a great pissing and moaning if they changed the ES tick size. Apparently some folks are making money faster there with things like they are.

I agree.

The way I see it is that the a lot of the sell side big money is only looking for a quick tick. A larger tick to point ratio would make this more difficult in my opinion.

If ES was 0.1 rather than 0.25 then it could well be a lot more volatile making it harder to scalp, and lean against size when spreading against another index contract such as the SPoo (large S & P 500), Russell, YM etc.

I could be wrong though.