I disagree Don. An opening gap can be played in any market including those that are traded 24 hours. It's up to the trader to back test a strategy...
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The "Raw Gap Play" for the ES showed a loss of 18.75 points for the month of August.
This is true. I should have said that the reason that smaller traders favor the ES is because... I'll correct this - thanks.
Depth Of Market. Most trading platforms offer a DOM or DOME (DOM Execution) screen so that you can see the volume bid/ask at the five closest...
this is true - and if we lose the market makers then we lose a lot of liquidity which isn't good for the market. What would the market makers...
That's really not unreasonable. With electronic trading you should be able to select any (reasonable) price to make a market at. You could have...
although that car comment is true, i don't see why the market authorities (read exchange) should come between two people wanting to trade inside...
You could get a custom made trading platform that could group the bid/ask in the YM and ER2 into a coarser grainularity which would simulate the...
Perhaps it's late and my brain has disengaged - I still don't understand why the ES ended up being 0.25 points per tick instead of 0.1 given what...
I agree jem. There's no reason why we shouldn't be able to bid/offer on any reasonably divisible price. If the market is trading at 1230.0 -...
This Elite thread asks the same question but no answer: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=41969
I've been using google to try and find the answer to the question "why is the ES tick size 0.25?" and am amazed that I can't find an answer,...
It was actually the article called "Is Day Trading Gambling?" that had that analysis but you got me re-reading some of my articles to find it :)...
Why not? Think of the ES as a market with a spread that is forced to 2.5 times the size of the SP market. So it is forced to simulate a less...
Do you think that the tick increment in the ES should be changed from 0.25 to 0.1? Would you like the tick increment to be changed?
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Thanks for the comment omni :) Since you first tried it I've changed it so that it only gives the most recent day to the aggregator and not...
I'm testing a new RSS feed for Daily Notes. This is the feed that you stick in your aggregator: http://www.deltat1.com/DailyNotes/dnrss.aspx...
A company called Netcraft (www.netcraft.com I think) provide a toolbar that will warn you if you try and enter a phishing web site by mistake...
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