Cash, continuous... potato, "potatoe" :)
I think that they use the continuous contract, you're using July's, hence the difference.
Just my two cents: I think the price went up because the weather forecast was 50% chance of a cyclone forming in the Atlantic and moving into the...
Delta, I cannot define your comfort level with volatility and capital, but if you're going to be trading oil with a small (futures) account and...
Hi Delta, welcome to the world of trading oil :) Just a thought: if you check how much CL can move over a weekend, you'll see that it can move...
See this chart in case it helps: (my broker is Interactive Brokers and my computer clock is lagging 1-2 seconds the IB server timestamp)...
Have you/they rolled over to the August contract? (about $1.30 higher)
??? .88 .77 (July)
At the risk of sounding like an analyst (yuk! :D ), I would say that while gold was behaving like a commodity, USD weakness was bullish (as for...
And on a 1-hour chart: [img]
Seems random to me, but see it for yourself: On a 5 minute chart: [img]
Before data is out? You have some balls... I used that strategy at the beginning of my career and averaged 10% a week for a while (in hindsight...
Nice Natty play :) Were you just playing for a rebound? Inventories were actually bearish.
They just published the FED Beige book, which at first seemed poor, then good, then not so good and then who-knows. I was expecting a break either...
I think I just got seasick - thank goodness I stayed out
Not really, API doesn't really move the market that much and the consensus is already a -1.4 draw, so unless it's an outlandish report we're...
I was going to say the same :D Then again, I saw why you bailed - Still, you had some nice trades today
Consensus is trend is down in many instruments, but then many of them are probably oversold and people are afraid of sharp rebounds, so...
Nice entry
Coming from FX you'll do fine, just remember to keep an eye on the euro. Equities turned after the euro, which was jumping up due to (presumably)...
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