Recent content by bigba

In general, it depends on your timeframe: longer term stuff you are going to need to understand fundamentals. Short term trading (5 mins and less, if its a good trade), you are going to have to understand news, technical analysis and flow, watching orders coming into the market. Identifying when...

Hi Police thanks, I will look into Futex then as they apparently have been around since late 90's

Hi Gooseman, btw Elvis died. Hi Police, Thanks for the advice. I actually found a potential trading house, but am looking for a comparison so I don't get Hobson's choice. I am looking for a company with risk managers who are experienced with ICE, and which has reliable IT. Any help...

Are there any prop shops with an established trading record on ICE yet? I have experience trading the crack and am looking around. Does anyone go direct through clearers like Fortis?

I went to Futuresource and got the delayed chart for you, as its a fiddle with the codes: futuresource.com | Futures & Commodities Custom Micro Charts I think Esignal may provide economical live charting. The possible reason you cant see the WTI Brent spread is because ICE uses algorithms to...

Futuresource used to provide custom spread charts for free. Only downside was the 15min delayed feed. You can specify months for the contracts. Can anyone recommend a trading house for ICE contracts? Thanks.

afraid not, never started properly other than messing around on the brokerage account, I had bigger concerns over main trade of Schatz Bobl Bund which was changing a lot, and ended up trading on ICE with the crack spread. Now thats a spread that moves a few ticks, trade it for less than ten is...

high frequency is still successful, but the distribution of money has changed. but other opportunities exist. different strategies and different markets. quick movers with nothing to lose have excellent opportunity investigating new ideas. what do you think the bund bobl schatz market looked...

hey if you want to chart this in cqg as a decimalised spread, you can put it in as "sharescale(3*fva-2*tya,db)" and then the spread "shares" the bund pricing format, ie becomes decimalised

traded this successfully using a custom auospreader which was very quick, much faster than the market depth, and it was making money over bro. problem is liquidity and with no more than around 10,000 trading a day in the buxl i stopped watching it. but if you are looking for 10-20 ticks a day...

soybean corn results Looking at this spread, trading in with one clip not scaling and fading the spread with no money management, simply getting out when the spread crosses its moving average, optimal results are a daily moving average of around 30 days, trading at about 20usd from the...

fading or trend trading a spread Hi Fastnet Spread doesnt look expensive versus a 50 day moving average at the moment actually. Looks expensive over the long term on the chart, but if you are looking for profit shortly dont think this is one to go for. Yeah, I think its great to trade against...

looking at sx5/cz5, there is a good signal going short on a macd at the moment and the spread is historically expensive: any thoughts?

anyone trading euro stoxx as an anchor leg for some of the other indices? eg ftse, e mini, smi, cac?

new gsci etf Also looking at my ISA account with TD Waterhouse. I have a load of cash in there (Inland Revenue hasnt taken it out yet, but I get taxed on interest of cash balance). I have seen that there is a new ETF on Xetra called EasyETF GSCI (code is IM2E on Deutsche Boerse website). This...