That's exactly my point. It's easy to understand why we should do this but emotionally it's difficult to handle when we leave points on the table....
Very impressive $COSTAverageMAN - thanks for sharing.
Don't forget Rollover tomorrow. Change contracts from M to U. If you forget to change the contracts on both your charting and trading platform...
Grob109 - you about?
Very true. It begs another study and poll. May I ask: How often do you end a day with more points in your pocket than the day's range? (As a...
Don't forget: Rollover on Thursday this coming week.
Philisophically perhaps but I would not call your trade perfect if it loses money - which could happen in this case. Perhaps you are talking about...
I agree.
I recently wrote The Perfect Trade. The concept is that the perfect trade is almost unattainable yet a lot of traders attempt to pull it off and...
If you want to see them on eSignal then use the appropriate ticker: CUS=Composite Index BOS=Boston CHI=Chicago DEN=Denver LAV=Las Vegas...
So you're saying that the components of the index cannot be arb'd against the future?
I don't understand what you mean "exchanging price risk for basis risk" - can you give me an example?
These are valid points but I feel that you are ONLY looking at the contract from the point of view of a trader. These contracts allow institutions...
You don't develop strategies around shock events. You use insurance for shock events and strategies for market moves - in both volatile and benign...
The problems that I see with new futures is a catch-22 and not what you describe. The catch-22 is that no one will trade them until there's...
I believe that S&P now "own" the CS index. No room for fudging index because it is based on second sales at arms length.
http://emini.deltat1.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1016 What do you mean liquid? How many contracts have traded? I see only 1.
From what I can see so far there has only been 1 contract traded in the composite index in the Aug and 1 in the Nov contract and those were both...
I believe that there are options on the futures so you can.
CME launched its Housing Futures yesterday. I have done a little bit of research on it and posted some charts and spreadsheets in this topic - I'd...
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