Not at all. Never under estimate the road rage of the trailer park inhabitants once they get behind a wheel.
This is way more interesting then anything on CNBC. Good entertainment. Kind of reminds me of Soeswasbetter, I enjoyed his rants to himself about his stock picks.
Damn, I forgot about that poster. Where'd he vanish to? Did he disappear around the same time as Xela?
We ran a study on order size / volume per trade on certain CME around 15 years ago before they changed aspects of the matching engine and data feed. (at the time, if I recall, the T&S reported the size of the aggressor order) For a time, there was some directly tradable information relating to average order size in the smaller timelines, and putting that in a context formed the base for some future studies.
"Futures market is much more driven with mathematics and, naturally, risk control. One needs to invest some time to learn all rules of the futures market. Forex market is much more based on fundamentals and simple market forces which can be easily followed through technical charts. Good luck on FX ! "
It's your decision to make, but what's the point of all this if not to make money. One thing I do appreciate in futures is the fact that they are highly leveraged investments; all you need to put in is a margin—a fraction of the total amount (typically 10% of the contract value)—to be invested in futures.