how are futures more fair over stocks?
in what way does a market maker in stocks have more power over market makers in futures? and why?
but at expiration... if ES is still worth 800 and SPX is worth 805... it's as though I bought ES and sold it at the SPX price level at...
okay :) so now I see a correlation between ES and SPX... I never saw how they had anything to do with each at the beginning... so basically,...
wait.... just to clarify... so if I bought ES today at 800....and SPX is today 805.... and it stays the same all the way upto the...
can you please elaborate on this... For some reason, I find trading index futures more predictable than trading the cash... I've made 130% in...
OHHHHHH! thank you for all those people patient enough to help me out with this.... You don't know how much it means to me to know this...
So you're saying that if I bought 1 ES contract right now... it will automatically be converted to the value of SPX even if I didn't choose to...
I don't quite understand how arbitrage is risk-free money... say if ES was 800 and SPX was 805... If I bought both ES and SPX.... what's to...
I don't mind taking the heat for being curious... it's all good
i guess i'm not being clear here... I understand that futures and stock converage at the time when the futures expire... but when you trade...
Thanks for that explaination.... but can you give me an example of using ES (S&P futures)? how would you buy ES and then sell that in cash (SPX)?
Can you please elaborate on what you said "You buy the futures contract and sell it on the spot market the next day when you take delivery. Any...
but how does a bid and ask price get created if there are unlimited supply of contracts that can be created... it's not like stocks where there...
some people just seem to know everything...
how is the lowest offered prices created though???
i guess the real question is, how does globex create a bid and ask prices? So if there is no market maker but there are arbitrager... are they...
I thought I read there was a market maker in futures in any case, how are these price(s) determined (bid and ask price), when there are...
but a lot of people buy the "market price"... in stocks... say you have stock XYZ that has 3 shares total at $10 each... because there are...
Who creates these contracts? Is it the buyers and sellers or is it the farmers/producers of the commodity? If someone could clear things...
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