I get plenty of good fills with market mini orders. It's a little more "click and pray" than sending limit orders, but in these wild markets,...
Why would you think the CFTC would regulate a competition? You're not trading real contracts and you had no expectation that you would be trading...
You got the correct answer from Pabst. When you say "treasury falls", what are you talking about? The price, or the yield? If yield falls,...
These are just the overnight limits of 5%. Trading will reopen tomorrow morning. http://www.cme.com/trading/prd/equity/pricelimits.html...
If you buy a put, and sell a call with the same strike price, you are synthetically short the futures. +1 Futures + 1 put -1 Call = Conversion...
This is spooky. "Megacaps" tend to be momentum plays. Selling a call after a 10% up move is only asking for trouble (Look at that MO chart as an...
I was about to post the MO example, and that was just off the top of my head. Surprise rate cuts would affect "mega caps" also. Look back at...
Selling calls in a down market looks like an easy way to make money, just like selling puts in an up market. Whether price increases are as...
The tick size has no impact on the proper ratio to spread bonds to match yield DV01.
Essentially the steps are: 1) Pick any bond which is eligible for delivery. (You should pick the Cheapest-to-Deliver, but Bloomberg's pay...
They are short term options on the red, green, and gold contracts. So, you could buy a June '08 red mid-curve call. While the option expires in...
These are most likely mid-curve options. IB lists them as GE1, GE3, etc.
FWIW, Tradestation shows totally different volume numbers for the same period. 9:30 (eastern) - ~55k shares 9:31 (eastern) - ~84k shares...
Maybe. It might also mean: 1) A pairs trade became profitable 2) An offset occurred for tax reasons 3) A portfolio is being hedged 4) A...
Let's say I've been riding the stock down for the last 50% price move as an "expert". I'm a little worried about a bounce here, so I buy calls to...
Are they buying or selling these calls? Did they also trade stock at the same time? Did the price of the option move when they traded the calls...
All of the above. Technical analysis brings a trade to my attention, fundamental analysis gives me the confidence to stay in longer, and seasonal...
I apologize if someone else has fielded this question. (And the last few weeks have seen some exciting fixed income activity, so the question may...
Do *not* try Man. Wow, what a terrible experience. If you're doing floor trades (or intermarket trades), you might get better from a floor broker....
DTN is pretty clear--they do not filter anything they get from the exchange. It's very likely these ticks came from NYMEX itself. In any case,...
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