Suggestions for futures to trade

[globalarbtrader]

You are staying away from ICE exchanges because of fees, i think you said in the past.

How much would they be charging you each year?

It's $250 per month for financials and commodities, through IB. No non-pro discount.

That's 0.6% of my account value per year. A rule of thumb I have, is that a return increase should at least be three times the value of any cost. Would I expect my CAGR to increase from ~20% say to 21.8% through adding these ICE markets? Probably not.

GAT

 

[MacBookProHo]

It's $250 per month for financials and commodities, through IB.

That's 0.6% of my account value.
GAT

That suit in your avatar fooled me, a bit. I thought you would be bigger, your trading.

 

[globalarbtrader]

That suit in your avatar fooled me, a bit. I thought you would be bigger, your trading.

I meant: That's 0.6% of my account value per year

But it's true that my trading account is only a fraction of my net worth. Most of my money is in long only investments. I trade mainly for fun.

GAT

(Mind you it's really me in the picture...)

 

[globalarbtrader]

Just found this, could be useful for others:
https://www.barchart.com/futures/most-active/all?orderBy=volume&orderDir=desc

GAT

 

[hilmy83]

Just found this, could be useful for others:
https://www.barchart.com/futures/most-active/all?orderBy=volume&orderDir=desc

GAT

i dont think they include the micro equities. it would be interesting to see how they fare

 

[virtusa]

Yes, got both of them already - rows 134 and 135.

???

 

[R1234]

It's $250 per month for financials and commodities, through IB. No non-pro discount.

That's 0.6% of my account value per year. A rule of thumb I have, is that a return increase should at least be three times the value of any cost. Would I expect my CAGR to increase from ~20% say to 21.8% through adding these ICE markets? Probably not.

GAT

You can trade ICE futures without data at IBKR.

 

[Overnight]

I've decided to look again at adding more futures markets (basically it's too hot to do anything substantive today). Here's a list of what I've currently got. Am I missing anything major? A few futures might have been launched recently that I missed?

You could try VOLQ on the CME, which is basically a VIX-type future for the NQ. I have not been following it so don't know it's liquidity/volume, but it IS fairly new.

 

[treeman]

Disagree. "You follow 160 markets... and you follow/trade them well"?

I call BULLSHIT!!

You can call whatever you want to. Others are doing it. Jerry Parker runs Chesapeake Capitol, and is otherwise famous anyhow for being a turtle trader. I believe he does over 160 markets. 100% rules based. 3 time frames for each. Great returns. Nothing manual. Nothing crazy complicated other than not deviating. Since none of it is a secret per se, it’s not without imitators who are also successful.

 

[maxinger]

I day and night trade futures

Time for you to include China exchanges like Shanghai INE.

I guess you are a swing trader, not day trader.
Because grain, meat, food... .. Futures day range is rather small.