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Options: I sold that last order at market, rather than Limit order. Thanks for advice Davie

Sold @ 9187 10 pts in the bag!! +20pts in total for the day. I'm off for a glass of wine. My first impressions of the mini-dow.Well........I'll see what tommorow brings.??

Just gone long@9177 on mini Dow For my sins Tick value +600 feel there is a pullback in progress. Got to be worth 10pts??

Interesting point options. Didn't know IB held LMT Orders. I agree a market order is safer for closing out at my target. Certainly have had experiance of IB not answering the phone very quick (Frozen Computer). They have been the cause of many grey hairs (Well more than normal for a man of my age!)

oatman: The fill was within a couple of secs. The limit order @9188 was filled 12mins later. For 10pts.

Taken 10pts off the table so far, as the YM bounced off the 9200 resistance. Was short@9198, LMT MKT order@ 9188 got filled about 12mins later. Getting nervous now though. Don't want to risk my days money. seems very light volume today? Felt I should have taken some money from the morning drop...

Thank you everybody for your replies. It seems that I am not used to the erractic nature of this instrument, and perhaps yesterday, when I was looking at the mini-Dow (YM), it was a thin volume day? So the spreads tended to be wider? To give a bit of background to why I asked this question, is...

Does anyone out there trade the Mini Dow? If so, who do you use as your direct access broker. The CBOT trading simulator is quite interesting, with the average spread between bid and ask being only 1 tick :) . Is this accurate? Any views or experience with this instrument would be much...

Oatman, No, I'll give that a try. Thanks DG

Anyone else had a problem with launching Interactive Brokers TWS Demo. I'm trying to set up the Demo for a friend on his machine and having problems. Basically, after clicking the button to log-on, the program can't seem to connect. It just trys to re-attempt forever! :( Any advice or tips...

Ok enough of this Trading stuff ! Lets get down to a very important issue........ X-Box or PS2 ?............. What am I going to tell Farther Christmas???? DavieGrant

Hi Naz and Miki, I agree as well. But I think the overiding factor with the people who use Spreadbetting is that it only takes a small deposit to open an account and you are up and running. This enables under funded traders to at least Trade (all be it at a disadvantage), which I think they are...

Some good stuff here chaps. Is anyone willing to share their trading systems with us when using spread bets. Explain the exact entry set-up and most importantly the exit set-up. Also a brief explanation of its overall success or failure. I am particlarly intrested in any Day trading methods on...

Thanks Hugh and IH, Does the CMC Chart software have any TA options or is it just the graph etc. Does anyone use any web based real time futures feeds like Tradesignals.com or Prophet charts etc? thanks Davie

Hi Hugh So if I understand you right, the CMC charting software charts the CMC actual quote. For example if you were looking at the CMC Dow cash chart, it would actually be charting the CMC quote rather than just charting the Wallstreet NYSE Cash Dow for the day? Thx in advance Davie