Advantages to Trading Futures vs Stocks!

Originally Posted by rwalkerx

Here are some reasons my colleagues and I prefer e-mins to stocks (off the top of my head)....

-Futures are always liquid enough. Market orders are instant
-The spreads are never going to be huge like they can get on stocks
-I have two accounts with about 20K in them. I can day trade without needing $25,000+
-Focusing on one instrument day in and day out is less complicated and more productive
-I can sleep in! As I dont have to wake up at 6am and scan for stocks to trade
-Share size allocation is easier. I trade from 3-8 contracts depending on the setup
-I've held a stock that plunged 20 pts due to random company event. While econ reports move the futures. It's never been THAT bad!
-There are always shorts avilable!
-Comissions are reasonable (I pay around $4.10/round trip)
-No uptick rule (you can short on a down tick)

I started day trading again two years ago with stocks. I lost money pretty cosistantly..then I switched to e-mini YM.. at first I broke even for awhile (hey thats decent entertainment) then I joined a group of futures pros and watched for a month.. slowly but surely... I became able to trade on my own without chasing everything out there. Im still in that group but I can see signals on my own. Its just nice to belong to a community like t2w.. I stay mainly to circumvent the boredom of waiting..

Anyway. If your new I think you should concentrate on one thing and not jump all over the map! just my 2 cents.. Please reply post or/email with your comments.