Arcade is an actual term used to refer to professional shops in the futures industry. I think the term started in the UK, where these types of...
Sorry, I don't know exact specifics about Refco. I work for a different firm. I only made general comments on the contracts because you have...
mschey, Do you ever take a look at the 'Pro Firms' forum? Alot of the threads in there these days are about futures prop firms. There are...
Yeah. Know anything about them?
You can get your size up alot faster than trying to build your own account. And if your at a good shop, you should have access to extremely fast...
I don't think there are any. Or at least any that know what they're doing. If you find one please post it up on this thread. If you look up...
Not just the desk fees, but the percentage of your profits they're entitled to through your agreement. Theoretically, they can stop you from...
You are supposed to stay for 3 years even if you get a better offer.
If rolling a loser worries you, and you're looking for something else to trade, why don't you just trade stocks?
If you have enough money in the account, you can hold it till it goes to $0 as long as you keep rolling.
It's like getting out of your long and then getting right back in at the same price, but in the next months contract. However, futures are not...
Brent crude is a light sweet crude that comes from the North Atlantic region, thus, it's traded on a UK exchange. The light sweet crude that is...
You have to do something. For example, you are currently long 25 August Brent contracts and it is going to expire tomorrow. You go to the...
Here are the specs Nymex - 500 barrels http://www.cme.com/trading/prd/env/nymex/nymexspecs2760.html Brent - 1000 barrels...
You can roll your position over to the next contract when the one you have a position in is about to expire. It just consists of closing one side...
Oil markets are easy to access. You can trade the Nymex crude emini and IPE Brent Crude Oil futures through most futures brokers. They are both...
I think it would be great if more shops did this.
I wasn't saying it should be easy. I was responding to joeyata being skeptical of mk for posting a method that was currently working, since...
I would guess that the strategy he's using requires some sort of discretion or 'feel' that is not easy to duplicate.
It's usually 50% if you are new. With a track record your percentage can go up much higher depending on the shop. 50% is not a bad deal...
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