not sure what you mean by IV collapse. The most frequent data report is $UNG (every thursday at 10:30 ET).
It seems like the perfect risk free trade, have equal position size long and short right before the data is released, the market is almost always...
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tlow, you might find it helpful to see what other ES traders are doing, I follow traderguynw and mangist on twitter.
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I haven't looked at it in months. The bald headed guy who runs the place, Mike Bellafiore has one of the worst ego's you'll ever see. He talks...
levitation, I think Amp Futures only requires 2K to open an account, but customer service isn't the greatest.. Also, as others already pointed...
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When I started trading ES , I decided $2000 would be my max risk. In my mind, if I lost that money, that would be my indication that I failed as a...
I made 2.5 points today ($114 after commissions), trading 1 lot on the ES. not much, but it beats the paper trading. :)
ouch , if I took a 6K loss, i'd be out of the game right now. At the very least, ask your broker to credit your account with some free trades....
Dont generalize, I've spent a ridiculous amount of hours over the last few months manually backtesting and studying charts to put together my...
Gregk, /ES futures have cheaper tax rates then $SPY, but $SPY has cheaper commissions and spread. Heres the breakdown: Every 4 ticks (or 1...
Its not your imagination, stuff that a retail trader could use years ago, doesnt work now. Level 2 is basically useless, indicators cant be...
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Trading around the time a report is released has its own risks, the market can spike extremely quickly, and you might not be able to exit at your...
GatlingGun, this will sound rude but I think your full of BS, no one with any amount of trading experience is dumb enough to trade the ES without...
everything was screwed up when I logged in today, the buy and sell mkt buttons were in the wrong place and DOM wasn't working. I asked tech...
thats not a bad rate, I'm currently paying $5.5 RT.
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