Yes, you can initiate new shorts for Sep, and yes you can cover your shorts. But they won't let you initiate any new longs.
Welcome to ET, jcgcap. While including the overnight action worked well today, it may also negate otherwise valid entry signals. A sideways...
I appreciate no_pm for sharing his method by starting this thread. Thank you. You've detailed several ingredients essential to a solid trading...
Hi OffShoreTrader, very interesting journal so far. Thanks for sharing. re the above '1-2-3 low breakout', can you describe the method? I see...
AFterburner: That's a great quote. As I read your journal, I regularly find myself smiling and nodding because I see so much of myself in your...
FutureSource http://www.futuresource.com/charts/charts.asp
I got this one from Theresa Lo's new site (this is not a link to her site, nor an advert for her, just giving credit where deserved):...
They reported a single trade of 973.10 at 10:57:12. So 973.10 looks correct for that 5 min bar. I say 'looks' because the only way to really know...
Per Time and Sales, 10:47:24 a 973.50 trade was cancelled and replaced by a 973.00 trade. (good 'ole pit price reporting!) The low for that 5min...
Yes, methods and techonology change, and we adapt to survive. But the one thing that doesn't change is PEOPLE. People are the market,...
The electronic currency futures are misleading. The CME offers their full sized currency contracts side by side in both the pit and on Globex....
in the 10 year the commercials are LONG!!!! http://www.softwarenorth.net/cot/current/charts/TY.png
It looks to me that the small specs got long big time last week. The commercials covered and reduced their exposure but are still net short....
Here's a chart of the Dec 1987 Bond futures. They had peaked about 6 months earlier in March, and were crashing into the October period. Then note...
We've had a runaway one way up long bond market, now followed by a severe one way down run. What does that lead to? nervousness (i.e., fear!)...
Just curios: where was your original initial stop? Thanks.
Try entering 'EUR' then choose the Futures -> Month/Year -> Globex from the IB menus. That should give you the larger sized Globex executed...
That's because Globex shuts down for maintainence then. See http://www.cme.com/about_cme/about_tradinghours.cfm
Thanks a bunch!!! I used it tonight for a new laptop. :)
take a look at http://www.briefing.com/FreeServices/fs_bonds.htm
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