They don’t trade 24 hours which is not good for me
trading help
- Thread starter Mdtbyk
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Out of curiosity: why is this? What hours do you trade? I assume that you don't trade 24 hours per day.
I usually place my trade in the morning when I wake up in the morning in Europe and I don’t like it that I can’t sell or buy when ever I want
This means that you have the risk of trading during illiquid hours when the spread between bid and ask prices is larger. Instead of focusing on US markets, would it be better to focus on European markets if you live in Europe?
I always want to trade the Dax but sometimes the sp 500 makes a big move but I could be out of the market at that time cause it closes at 16 pm what do you trade?
I run an automated trading system. It does not trade intraday though. As it is automated can it track some equity futures on the Singapore exchange, EUREX exchange (DTB) and the USA. Besides equities does it also monitor various other asset classes such as forex, commodities, bonds.
The German DAX contract is a bit large for my trading account. I focus more on these two European equity futures:
http://www.eurexchange.com/exchange-en/products/idx/stx/blc/EURO-STOXX-50--Index-Futures/18954
http://www.eurexchange.com/exchange-en/products/idx/stx/bmc/STOXX--Europe-600-Index-Futures/18042
May I ask if this is just your hypothesis or have you actually traded this method and are profitable long term? My experience is diagonal/calendar spreads are difficult to analyze and difficult to profit?
I rarely touch options. Not enough experience with them. I don't really understand how people manage the spreads. You start every trade in the bucket. Having said that, I'd be willing to sell out of the money calls all day long. That's a suckers bet. Even if it hits, the owner usually loses money.
