What are you talking about? The NQ spread is NEVER 2 points bro. Are you trading March or June contracts?
You probably "forgot" to roll-over to June one week ago (roll-over time and the volume moves on Thursday week before expiration )
Triple X, you are indeed looking at the wrong contract. H means March. M means June. June is the active contract. Look at NQM6.
Thanks for the info..I'm just following the futures, not trading them. Where can I find a list of the letters for each month?
No surprise! Make a little sticky and remind yourself when contracts Roll Over Quarterly so you have liquidity, and look semi intelligent on here. I trade Crude and it rolls every month, man do I get confused! http://www.cme.com/ http://www.cbot.com/cbot/pub/page/0,3181,949,00.html http://www.nymex.com/index.aspx You are one lazy clam dude!
=============== CME,BOT have that info; Interactive Brokers is quicker however for symbols. Figure CME did that to help compete with BOT ,YM contract. It seem to be part of CME,BOT .ISE,OXPS,TRAD uptrends ; especially since BOT,CME didn't sell off when SFO magazine put those 2 on front covers. CME offered to sell me some data not to long ago; would rather record my own, but thoughtful of them to ask.
anchor - i totally agree. the spread is why i trade YM instead of ES now i may consider the NQ. ES is, frankly, a ripoff- certainly for anything less than position or swing trading. if you consider that for every 10 pts in YM equals roughly 1 pt in ES, then 10 ticks in YM equals 4 ticks in ES i don't mind (as much) a 5 pt spread in Nikkei, since the moves are so huge - 100 pt- 200 pts not uncommon. but costs are a big part of trading. I would consider trading ES with a .1 tick. but @ a .25 tick, it's a ripoff. i'll leave it to the hordes, and trade YM.