Recent Content by e_trader_pro

  1. options . . . very hard to make money

    Options are NOT zero-sum. You have no idea what the person on the other side of your trade has done against it. Options are a tool for risk...
    Post by: e_trader_pro, Aug 30, 2010 in forum: Options

  2. Usfx

    It's been trading, particularyly the Euro contract. Markets look like they are almost always 1-2 pips wide. Price is identical to SPOT, even...
    Post by: e_trader_pro, Jan 10, 2008 in forum: Forex

  3. So tell me why I should trade currency futures instead of forex?

    There is an alternative product to these choices. It's the hybrid FX contracts on USFE. USFE is the old Eurex US exchange. They have FX contracts...
    Post by: e_trader_pro, Jan 7, 2008 in forum: Financial Futures

  4. CME Euro FX

    There is an alternative product to these choices. It's the hybrid FX contracts on USFE. USFE is the old Eurex US exchange. They have FX contracts...
    Post by: e_trader_pro, Dec 26, 2007 in forum: Financial Futures

  5. "Major banks" are also on Plunge Protection Team

    Actually, the team consists of an unknowing public that feels compelled to buy stocks when they go down. These individuals are being controlled by...
    Post by: e_trader_pro, Jun 28, 2006 in forum: Wall St. News

  6. Query on a forced buy-in of a short position

    FYI, most forced short position buy-in's are same day settled, as opposed to T + 1. Often this is why there is a premium associated with the...
    Post by: e_trader_pro, May 9, 2006 in forum: Order Execution

  7. Bar for traders

    In Chicago, across from the CBOE (and Chicago Stock Exchange). Very near the CBOT and down the street from CME. Alcock's. Once a month they...
    Post by: e_trader_pro, Apr 26, 2006 in forum: Professional Trading

  8. BLDP back from the dumps?

    from a high of $130 during the bubble to a low of $4 during the bust, this thing is back to $13, up 26% today. market cap is well over $1B again....
    Thread by: e_trader_pro, Apr 24, 2006, 1 replies, in forum: Stocks

  9. Ice...wtf??????????

    This one had a nice run up with all the other exchanges, but just got hammered with the NYMEX/CME news. Was it over done?
    Post by: e_trader_pro, Apr 7, 2006 in forum: Stocks

  10. CME EURO Futures Market Makers?

    I agree with FredBloggs. Much of the "market-making" for the FX futures at both Eurex and CME are a default of different trading strategies by...
    Post by: e_trader_pro, Nov 4, 2005 in forum: Forex

  11. Why shorting is no longer a viable strategy in the US Market.

    During the internet bubble, every monkey and his brother led every trade with a buy, and you couldn't lose. Until everything got smoked. At the...
    Post by: e_trader_pro, Nov 3, 2005 in forum: Trading

  12. Bloomberg on FX futures pricing

    Chicago Merc to Cut Currency Futures Trading Fees (Update1) 2005-10-05 12:33 (New York) (Adds comment from Eurex US CEO in fourth...
    Thread by: e_trader_pro, Oct 6, 2005, 1 replies, in forum: Forex

  13. Considering a move to futures

    Eurex just launched their FX futures. They, too, have a 1-2 spread in the euro, but the contract is 4 times the size of the contract at CME. Also,...
    Post by: e_trader_pro, Oct 3, 2005 in forum: Forex