futures are a pure supply/demand vehicle. that is why i trade (on an intraday basis) YM almost exclusively. stocks i love. I INVEST in...
PREM: "It's a real-time Ticker of the Arbitrage-Window values....You already have it in TWS but your clients want it in an Index-Ticker-format"...
PREM symbol... did i already say that? :) love the IB improvements, btw. it gets better and better
i REALLY want a PREM symbol in IB so I can better play the program buy/sells on the indexes. This is the only piece of data that I am sorely...
i use interactive brokers, and it's very easy. just enter the symbol. on their account options page, you gotta sign up for the exchanges....
trading the Nikkei through Singapore is a great thing to trade. opens at 3:45 pm pacific time this is a very smooth contract to trade, with...
have u tried the IB site's webinars? they have a pretty detailed video on advanced order types via TWS
yes. enter them in manually in the indices section of QT
yes. go to symbol search and search for indexes under the AMEX exchange, in IB as for getting rid of holidays, go to the holiday timeframe...
in regards to the RTH session vs. globex. Bolter, i think sticking to regular trading hours for your MP calcs is arguably a good way to go. i...
arzoo, you are correct in your estimations. er2 is fine, but the reality is that Nikkei is trending like a mutha. day after day. 100-250 pts...
in brief, a 5 point move (1 tick) in the nikkei is $25 USD a 1 pt move (1 tick)in the hang seng futures (HSI) is about $5 USD my...
just for the record, i'm not trading today. not saying *i* got that money. but some traders did :)
awesome 225 pts. that's over 1k per contract in the first few minutes in*sane
5 pts is one tick BECAUSE it is the minimum movement. but on a 15,000 pt contract it is too thick a spread imo, since I am used to trading the YM...
"screaming sell signal" lol. Nikkei is significantly undervalued vis a vis the S&P. it's been a looooooooooooong bear market. i've traded the...
I would like to see: a put/call ratio symbol that I can graph (i use QT for charting) a prem symbol that i can graph (so i can piggyback on...
For longterm investing, in general, i'm a contrarian. With that in mind, Nikkei is looking mighty appealing to me. Coming out of a basing...
i like ben's commentary and i like the raw S&P pit too. frankly, i don't think i've quite figured out how to interpret the data from ben's calls,...
http://www.realtimefutures.com/ has a free trial. you can try the "raw" pit noise and/or the version with a barker who talks over the pit...
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