hitting the bid

[Javier]

Sometimes that 200 is just what is on the shelf !!. There are more in the storage. It does not mean that if you buy all that 200 contracts the price will go up one point. Any purchase will create a buying pressure even a minute one but market is more fluid than your trades. After you buy all 200 contracts, because of market condition, the price might even drop 10 points ore more (just the second you are buying). As a small trader, you don't buy to push the price up (specially the futures). You buy it because you believe it is in a trend that you hope or that trend will happen in the near or your target future. The 200 order might be an iceberg order and 200 is only the tip of it. In this case, when you buy 10 contracts, you would see that 200 does not change.

Well ok that was more or less what I though was happening. But in the xtrader, I watched a row also saying some kind of limit orders,,, (with a different number than in the normal DOM). That was couse I was confused. Tx

 

[TRS]

200 contracts was just an example, right? The number is irrelevant to your question-- why these jokers don't get that is why they consistently lose.

Now that this is clarified, ill step aside and watch the stupidity or maybe intelligence start -- answering the question.

Good luck. Surf

You're such a self righteous tool.
Anyone that actually trades sees through your bullshit.
I hope this facade you present is just for a giggle.