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Just stumbled on this for the Eurex: http://www.eurexchange.com/trading/calendar/2010_en.html

Anyone have a link to the 2010 European Market Holidays? Mainly interested when the Dax futures market is closed. US is easy to find thru a search on google, but so far no luck w/ the Dax..I did find one for 2007: In 2007, the DAX futures market is open for trading every trading day (Monday to...

Re: Wallstreet1928 Analysis & live calls on FTSE,DAX,S&P...aimed to help New traders Double post

Re: Wallstreet1928 Analysis & live calls on FTSE,DAX,S&P...aimed to help New traders US markets are closed for Good Friday, the report will still be released. Not sure about Euro markets though.

Jan 5th for 09.

My advice would be to follow all 4 major index cons and decide for yourself which one you want to trade. You may want to trade them all and they all affect each other anyway. Some basic characteristics to compare would be tick size, price and average range.

Keep in mind that stops should not be set arbitrarily, they should be set at relevant levels just beyond important support/resistance in the form of price, ma's etc...arbitrary, extremely tight stops are useful for scalping but that's about it. Your initial stop is a part of your risk/reward...

If you don't know the answer than you have 2 choices: 1. Find out by trading. 2. Research the answer by reading top traders (books etc...) The answer will be the same.

Capital gains taxes on US futures are actually more favorable and easier to file than capital gains taxes on US equities...just do a google search...basically you just determine net gain or loss from year end totals.

The NQ has plenty of liquidity, less than the ES but more than the YM.

If you want to daytrade without being restricted by the Pattern daytrading rules then you will need to keep your account above 25k at all times...you will need to have a cushion at first to accommodate losses...30K total is reasonable but expect to loose money without guidance. IB offers paper...

or the big mouth of their programmer without non-disclosure agreements...proprietary rights...etc... :)

Both Poker and financial trading pay you for one thing and one thing only: Dicipline. Risk management, observational skills and a focus on exploiting the weaknesses of others are some major common traits of pro's in each field.

Update to my post above on 3-19-08: Gold did indeed top and the ETF for gold (GLD) fell from a price of 100.44 closing today at 87.42 for a loss of 13%. This of course would be a gain for you if you sold your gold or went short when I gave the alert. GOOG did indeed bottom on 03-17 and rallied...

Well I made money on these picks, hope you did also :)