Quote from raker:
First off as a previous poster stated it is hard to make a comparison between this period and last January , we have just experienced unheard of levels of volatility over the past several months.
You have to remember what the e-mini or regular sized index futures contracts are primarily used for ; short and long term hedging by institutions for their portfolios , it is also used on a intraday timescale by broker/dealers and institutional execution desks to hedge institutional stock buy/sell orders/lists as they are executed thoughout the day.
The volumes may drop off a little from time to time but the futures contracts are very much needed by the institutions to help minimise the market impact costs of trading in baskets of different underlying shares .
So I wouldnt worry about it too much...
Quote from ranger64:
i just had a look at the average daily volume of cme index futures january 2009 compared to january 2008.
volume is sharply down in es, nq and ym. the nq was hit worst, average volume dropped to 285000 in january, volume was 552000 one year ago. if volume decline continues at this pace, daytrading eminis could be a tough task in the near future...
Quote from SethArb:
GC SI PL HG CL NG EUR AUD CAD GBP CHF JPY ZS ZB ZW
are some of the markets I have been trading recently
I do of course trade YM ES NQ when needed
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Quote from moarla:
hahaha you funny...
all those instruments doesnt have the liquidity of ES...
hahahahahahahahahahahahah
you can make from 80 - 120 ES points/ day , so trading with 100 lots, calculate, what a nice living you can make
coments like yours are senseless
Quote from moarla:
hahaha you funny...
all those instruments doesnt have the liquidity of ES...
hahahahahahahahahahahahah
you can make from 80 - 120 ES points/ day , so trading with 100 lots, calculate, what a nice living you can make
coments like yours are senseless