I traded 8 ES minis yesterday morning and was COMPLETELY wrong -- first time in a long time I was 100% off in my analysis. Took a decent loss,...
"Breaking News" = what passes for "news" IS broken these days. :(
With the exception of fixed stops on an ER2 and ES shorts yesterday morning, I went manual....too much weirdness to leave it to the computers to...
Geebus....knowing how GOOG moves, that sounds like a hell of a risk -- though the potential reward might be worth it. How tight are your wings...
You're thinking a rate hike instead? Anything otherwise (no cut/some cut) I think will be bad for the USD....
No kidding....though it's more like "just go long and have sensible stops" :)
Ok, then it wasn't me --- there really isn't any liquidity on that contract. At least I know I'm not crazy when I saw the lack of volume!...
Greetings -- At the moment, the only Asian index future offered at my broker is the S&P Asia 50 contract. I've looked at the CME site,...
I think if the Fed holds or cuts rates, fx will be a good trade for a day or longer since the message would be that it's still okay to short the...
OptionsXpress lets you papertrade a bunch of minis w/o funding an account
So what's everyone doing/thinking going into the FOMC next week? I trade fx futures now and then.....so as for me, right now I'm torn between...
I'm an IT consultant and I have a hard time believing that Vista is such a blowout seller that they made it out to be. NOBODY I know is using it,...
Again, I could do something with single stock futures.......buy 1 ISRG SSF and buy an ATM/ITM put. As long as the spot price of ISRG rises past...
join the club -- i had a bunch of long calls on it back in july and closed it going into earnings.....at which point it exploded and I'd missed a...
I'd feel better playing the NQ futures.....BIDU, like GOOG or AAPL should move the futures and you can trade it after-hours. :)
You know it's bad when the Put Chains only go down to $50, and they're all ITM......wonder if laying on some bear call spreads might not be a bad...
FBI raided 'em in an investigation into stuff. Run the ticker symbol thru Google or Yahoo Finance to get the full skinny, but it ain't pretty for...
I tend to do earnings on a lower-risk directional gamble rather than try and profit from either direction. IE, I bought an AMZN SSF and an...
Though you need an Intel (ugh!) - based Mac to run bootCamp or Paralells Workstation, it won't work on PowerPC G4 or G5 systems.
Hey --- it's never bad to take profits and preserve capital!!!!
Separate names with a comma.