Recent Content by MacDRider

  1. Never Traded Futures: Advice?

    As I mentioned, I have watched the July contract a lot as that's what DTO trades on, and I've watched the front two months mainly for trading with...
    Post by: MacDRider, Feb 20, 2009 in forum: Commodity Futures

  2. Never Traded Futures: Advice?

    Well I appreciate your honesty. For whatever reason, I have not done well with trading anything other than oil. I've been looking mainly at macd,...
    Post by: MacDRider, Feb 20, 2009 in forum: Commodity Futures

  3. Never Traded Futures: Advice?

    That's interesting. The reason I started thinking about trading oil futures per se is we were talking about oil ETFs on the ETF forum and someone...
    Post by: MacDRider, Feb 20, 2009 in forum: Commodity Futures

  4. Never Traded Futures: Advice?

    I'm more of a day-trader at this point. I enjoy watching the price of oil all day long and scalping it both ways :)
    Post by: MacDRider, Feb 19, 2009 in forum: Commodity Futures

  5. Never Traded Futures: Advice?

    I have an IB account and I watch the crude oil futures a lot as I like to trade the DXO/DTO ETNs. All of this makes me think about just trading...
    Thread by: MacDRider, Feb 19, 2009, 27 replies, in forum: Commodity Futures

  6. Exchange Traded Notes & Credit Risk

    This possibility of DB going under, however remote or real, is why I like daytrading with DXO and DTO and not holding them overnight. A nice...
    Post by: MacDRider, Feb 19, 2009 in forum: ETFs

  7. Best Short-Term ETF for trading crude oil spot price?

    You could very well be right. I doubt it goes that high unless the market recovers, though. If the broader market is doing well (let's say, Dow at...
    Post by: MacDRider, Feb 19, 2009 in forum: ETFs

  8. Best Short-Term ETF for trading crude oil spot price?

    I may have hit the $43 or $42 target right on the head with the bottom on the July contract. Of course, I didn't take my own advice, though, and...
    Post by: MacDRider, Feb 19, 2009 in forum: ETFs

  9. Oil/Energy ETF's

    Like I said, DTO uses the April futures contract which expires on March 20th, and DXO uses the July contract which expires on June 22nd. Link...
    Post by: MacDRider, Feb 19, 2009 in forum: ETFs

  10. Oil/Energy ETF's

    With DXO you have to look not at the current contract, but the forward month. So for now, DXO moves according to the April contract (which expires...
    Post by: MacDRider, Feb 18, 2009 in forum: ETFs

  11. Oil/Energy ETF's

    I'm not terribly knowledgeable, but from what I know, yes USO would gain value very well if oil spiked up and went in the opposite direction, but...
    Post by: MacDRider, Feb 17, 2009 in forum: ETFs

  12. Top Performing ETFs

    DTO is a double short on oil, and oil has plummeted from its highs last summer to the present. Yes, that would've been real nice to buy where it...
    Post by: MacDRider, Feb 17, 2009 in forum: ETFs

  13. Oil/Energy ETF's

    First thing: I wouldn't be overconfident about oil going up over the short term. There have been $30 and $25 projections. There's a ton of supply,...
    Post by: MacDRider, Feb 17, 2009 in forum: ETFs

  14. DXO/DTO Traders out there?

    I'll stand by the rest of what I said above, but this last part is not necessarily correct. I compared previous DTO prices during that first week,...
    Post by: MacDRider, Feb 17, 2009 in forum: ETFs