Dow Emini: how tradable is it?

It was tradable today. Easily moved in and out of the market with 2 and 3 lots. Nice range also.

 

Heh, heh. I got even today. Big time. Of course I would've had my best point day ever if I'd gotten my fill at 818.25 just before the news hit.

--opm8

 

CHICAGO, March 13—The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) today announced that a new daily volume record was set for mini-sized Dow Jones futures with 43,416 contracts traded on March 12, breaking the previous record of 36,083 contracts set on February 14, 2003

 

It's just a matter of when the institutions decide to get involved in this contract when we will see the number go from 5 digits to 6 imo.........then it should be good. (I think this is a pretty obvious statement, I am just thinking out loud)...then I'll get to add cbot/ace to my X .....fun fun.

 

There wasn't as much volume as I thought it would be on a +269 day.

 

Volume is not everything!

I prefer cleaner charts to deafening noise.

 

Volume for YMH3 or YMM3 ?

 

You're right, volume was lighter than normal in YMH3 because of rollover.

In fact dow futures volume is picking up. Checking on volume info at CBOT :

 

Dow futures volume is really picking up lately ... according to CBOT volume statistics for the top ten trading days