How can you be allocated the shares without putting up any initial margin? Surely the OCC would like to see some initial margin?
Yeah best to stick to plain stocks in a cash account. Trading futures you could end up taking delivery of 40,000 pounds of frozen pork bellies...
Even though there is enough to last 40 years. Production slows down as the oil runs out: 2020: 30 billion per year 2030: 25 billion per year...
There are 1000 billion in reserves. So that lot should last 30-40 years at current production rates. However the price will go up, so...
200 billion barrels. At $100 a barrel, Saudi oil would be worth $20 Trillion! The US national debt is only 7 trillion, and the Wilshire...
If you can watch the screen, then use a stop limit order with say an extra 20pts as the limit. And exit manually if the move down was a real...
LOL. I will adopt this salute when i make my 1st million trading.
Any news that moves the markets is a blessing, given the sh1t equity markets weve had over the last few months. The consumer can afford it...
With 600 contracts?
This is why i dont trade YM. Its been around longer than ER2 and EMD but liquidity still sucks. Its not suitable for serious trading imho.
ECBOT should not let YM move more than 100 pts in any sub one minute period. The market should have locked limit down at 10350 for a short time...
Has this ever happened with ES or NQ, in hours spurious spike of like 15pts?
I was going to post earlier today oil at $80 bucks, should be enough to do it. Seems like if it continues to make new all time highs over the...
Yeah, but probably over half of the high volatilty days for this year came around April. Every days range was like 20pts. Would nice for it...
Some one will get fined by CBOE today. Trades were outside the bust range for sure.
These moves kill newbies, you can bet there are some doubling up all the way down. Hyponotized and imprinted by this weeks rangebound action,...
If only it was that easy. Any such filter is likely to cause whipsaws (it will lag the state of the market) and also reduce overall system...
This is a shakeout. It could last another week, or another year. Who knows. All you can do to protect youself against it is to trade...
The Holy Grill TS does not come cheap, me took many years to find. I can explane you for $10,000.
When i was fifteen we saw this film on TV called 'Smart Money' (it may have made it to the big screen here in the UK, i dont know) Anyway the...
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