things will get worse, it will go like eurex, people will take advantage of the anonymity to spoof the market.
don't complain, the money you're making comes from them! for scalping brent you can't really use an automated stop as the order book is too...
less liquidity + more volume = more volatility. presumably one of them has good liquidity and the other does not. more liquidity = tighter spreads.
try being a trader for 2 years and then if you succeed, continue. if you do not succeed, try becoming an analyst. it's not like you get put to...
interesting point, if you blab about your method you are opening yourself up to attack. that's certainly one way of looking at it and probably...
if you have a winning method and you share it, others will use it too. which means more volume going your way, your method is strenghtened by...
they are Dutch with offices in Chicago, London and Amsterdam and I think Sydney. they do options market making, mostly on Eurex. they are one...
more uncertainty = more hedging and more complex hedging instruments and strategies. leads to higher derivatives volume. a lot of people think...
X trader the most expensive one. if it's good enough for Paul Rotter to make $50m a year on bunds, then you can do well on 10 years too. it...
yeah for WTI crude the pit trades back and forth in a 5-10 tick bid/ask and the screen might jump around a lot - although it rarely ever gets much...
that's a very interesting point, I was unaware that Eurex offered slightly more anonymity than CME I thought there was an industry standard. I...
Goldman analysts say 5.25%. give some pretty good reasons why. JPMorgan guys say 6%, also give good reasons why. place your bets now!
Macro Event based tape reading spreading
the book/tape is hard to read because of the unreliability of orders and the diversity of volume, but as they say, it's good on a chart. not any...
I have the S&P squawk too, and the oil squawk. I use the oil squawk to determine how far to run winners. if I'm in a winner and the pit is...
have traded equities, fixed income, forex, energy, options. prefer spot forex and commodities because I like the volatility, you can run...
sure, it probably does. well the currency strategy anyways. for the fixed income 10 year and 30 year US and bund futures I enter on a 1 min...
anybody else use this? what for and how? it never gets mentioned, everybody seems to love indicators.....
Hi, my boss has suggested that I try scalping the brent oil future on ICE, also the west texas on Nymex. I have previous experience in alg and...
used it for bund, dax and forex and US treasuries. nice for treasuries, especially when they get trendy. try a 2x6 for longer term moves.
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