Darkhorse, I don't know if it's all dishonesty. I would imagine a high percentage of long only traders would have bypassed the folder because...
I don't think your voting results give a true picture of the world. I would guess that 80% of respondents in a poll would be in the category of...
Dojibear, In general they should, and for larger moves they do, but you can see some significant variances day to day. Personally I watch...
If that were the case, no one would accept a German account to trade futures. To answer the original question: When you trade futures or short...
Go to the library and get a book called the Commodity Trading Manual published by the Chicago Board of Trade. Many universities use it as the...
Uptik, I've been a computer geek for a long time and my record for building a computer is 14 minutes. (Is using an electric screwdriver...
For liquidity, you can almost always see 50 up on each side in either of these contracts. Often there are hundreds on the bid or offer, so I think...
The NFA fee is 4 cents.
Travisdu, The five you mentioned currently have four digit quotes. (until they go up or down) silver - dollars, cents, and tenths. gold -...
Learning how to daytrade has very bad odds. Most people will fail and lose money. And, if you need to depend on others' picks, you have already...
Two things. One, the exchanges won't be of much help because the formatting can be specific to the trading platform or the routing software....
I'll figure out this signature thing one of these days. Matt
Travisdu, Perhaps you could ask your broker to walk you through it. After all, you are paying him to teach you how to place orders. The idea...
There's a reason why morning trading is different from afternoon trading. I'll use X-mas eve as the extreme example. Some people are required...
Commitments of traders. Useful or useless? I've seen arguments on both sides. I think you have to take the data and how it can be used and...
George, I talked to one of my buddies who's a broker at Refco and he says that their old LFG legacy system called LEO can do what you are...
George, PATS does have a point to point feature that allows a broker to connect to a pit guy with a terminal, but you'll have to talk to your...
Sorry about the double signature, I forgot about the automatic one. Matt
George, You won't be able to use PATS to trade the large contract as it's pit traded, and PATS only trades the all electronic markets. You'll...
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