in mini gold as well as access comex gold and spot market gold has not seen $400 in a few yrs with option expiry this week it could be interesting
big size on each side of the order book today where it used to be 30 X 30 I am now seeing 100 X 100 or even higher ... wonder if there is another form besides TRadelink LLC providing the markets in YG / YI or if they have figured out how to do bigger size and arb it off against the COMEX if necc.
Perhaps its simply a matter of the underlying making a bigger blip on everyone's "radar" these days. Metals are a bit more closely followed by the mainstream every week it seems. Could this simple phenomenon explain the increased participation hence liquidity you are seeing?
Same question each time the mini is about to become unavailable for trading (first notice day) . Which contract do we trade? February or April?
When does the Feb '04 YG expires? End of Jan right? How come the Mar'04 hasn't started trading yet... hmm...
chisel, thanks. that's what i saw on the CBOT website. But when you put down march '04 on IB it still shows up. hehe. Also, jan 31 is the feb'04 expiration huh?