A friend has a trading corp - a limited liability corp to be specific. He told me that his FCM requires double margining from him because he has...
I was a member of the CME. You're looking at Rule 106.H,I and J at the CME, I think. I don't think you can lease a seat - I think you'll have...
And to put it another way: Institution does 12% of the biz / day in forex $1,000,000,000,000 / day in transaction Makes 1/5 pip profit...
HTrader, et. al. I've traded fx for some time (15+ yrs now, yikes!) and maybe I can give you a bit of perspective about what goes on in this...
It's always worse than you think it is. Commish is stable but slippage estimates (by people new to this stuff) are usually very low. To be...
Systems trading is a difficult subject and is made more difficult by a lack of robust software to test an opinion. A few observations, fwiw:...
Well, I don't leave stop orders in the market. People have been "picking off" orders for years. That's part of the game, I suppose. There's an...
So what's wrong? The multiplier is the same, $20 * future or index, whatever, there's a basis, but the equivalency is always the same - 800...
I think information flow is created by price discovery and is directly proportional to the number of trades executed, so I'm not surprised that...
GA: It's always exactly 800 qqq's = 1 naz e mini 1 e-mini ndx point = $20 qqq price = ndx/40 1 emin point / 40 = $0.025 equivalent...
Certainly greater price discovery activity through e-mini; efficiency perhaps as well. THey are parallel mkts, imho, and I'm know that local...
Sure, the arb profits are small, but execution costs are minimal and potential opportunities are continually present. I started trading on the...
No problem, my pleasure. There are e-mini terminals on the floor, right next to the pits and elsewhere. Some local traders have teamed up to...
Yes, indeed. But what most locals do is try to scalp a full size contract on the bid side and scale up a few offers in the mini's one at a time...
Used to trade on the CME and my friends still down there attribute high local-to-local trade activity to arbitrage between mini and pit traded SP...
GO to tools, click exceptions, scroll down to acn and delete it! MSFT trying to be helpful, I guess Marc
Gave up on TS a long while back. My partners didn't, though and were constantly plagued with freezes and TS's predilection to hog all system...
The busiest people on the credit derivs desk are always the lawyers! Or so goes the joke... In talking to my friends still involved in said...
We've traded a few messages in these forums; I ran a derivatives book (including all types of "exotics") and as usual, the increasing complexity...
There are exploitable moves out there, but they are smaller. I've done some analysis of the NDX and have found that (for the past six months)...
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