It depends on the futures contract. Oil is straightforward. Interest rate contracts like ZT, ZF, ZN, ZB are more complicated because the tick size...
Yes, order flow is used by spread traders, although your transaction costs need to be very low as you pay commission on each leg, and a lot of...
S/he's probably doing what Paul Rotter used to do to the DAX. Market is trading at "x." Plant an enormous bid of, let's call it "1000," at x-10,...
Go to tradingschools.org and type in whatever "trading course" you have heard of. This guy pulls no punches. Very Very Very few are legitimate....
Trend following CTAs are probably 35%-40% win rate, average win 3x-4x the average loss. Scalpers/Market Makers are probably 70%-80% and 1/1 or...
Yes, it's about sales and networking, but building an online presence will help in the long term. I strongly suggest you go to Michael Kitces'...
You seem to be right down Interactive Brokers' alley. They are scooping up a lot of small hedge funds that have been turned down by the larger...
The markets that GENERALLY move the most intraday are Crude Oil, Gold, Nasdaq and GBPJPY. S&P 500 (ES) could also be on the list, but it has been...
If you like Al Brooks' basic philosophy but find his writing incomprehensible, try books by Bob Volman or "Mack" (who has an excellent youtube...
Optimus clears Wedbush and has the platforms you want. I am not a customer, but they seem to have very low commissions. (Lower than IB). @MattZ...
5 and 15 year seasonal chart, if you're into that sort of thing. [IMG]
Here is a continuation for 10 years back on GOX-GOZ, from seasonalgo. [IMG]
Does ICE give size priority like CME? Maybe someone is offering 2000 to get to the front of the queue to get filled on 200.
Notional value of an ES contract is $123,600 at the current price, and required margin is $4,200, which is about 30/1 leverage. During the...
Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar, by Al Brooks. It is very hard to read, but many people got value from it. Not my personal preference, just...
If you want more excitement in your life, WTI Crude (CL), is a great cure for boredom! Natural Gas (NG) will drive you completely insane. Edit: I...
Or do what the Chinese do, and launder it via bitcoin/ethereum/etc.
Thomas Bulkowski did a pretty detailed analysis of Wolfe waves, and found them to be underwhelming. He also found some inconsistencies in Wolfe's...
Reach out to @fullautotrading He is active on here and does a lot of python development through Interactive Brokers. (he also trades real money...
You can trade forex. It definitely has some drawbacks (most of the time you trade against the broker, although you can also find ECN-type...
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