Recent content by denham

The arcade is on hold for the moment due to a general lack of demand. If you're interested then pm and maybe we can get things back on track.

We are in the process of opening a new trading arcade for experienced traders in Leeds city centre. Desk fees will be very competitive and the venture will be run with a very experienced City firm. Anyone in the area or wanting to make a move from the City please PM me here with an idea of...

CC the various forms that i have been working on would tie in with your results. at the moment i am putting the recent poor performance down to summer market conditions but am mindful of the possibilty that it may be something a little more serious than that. for now i will stick with the...

anyone out there still looking at the 7-10 BO strats. (or variation on the theme), that were so popular a couple of months back? wondered how they were fairing in the choppy summer markets.

agreed Darktone, in this instance jonny couldn't get in, but as i demonstrated, i couldn't get out. so it certainly wasn't zero cost for me.

perhaps its time for this stalwart futures guy to have a change of tack then - will take a look at fxcm. thanks for the info.

I trade thro Mantrad on their own branded Patsystem. The Merc accept stop limit orders so my order was in and held at the exchange - the problem was one of the market gapping and lack of liquidity not a problem with the execution platform/broker. I use two tick stop limits for entry and five...

what limits do you use on your stops on the futures JT? kinda puts me off ever going down the automated trading model route if you can't be sure of a fill.

yep - i was short and had a stop limit to cover it and reverse. limit of five ticks on the stop. no fill. covered my short -120.

I run sierra using mytrack data for an hourly candle chart of eur/usd future. I have the time scale adjustment set to 5:00 to give UK hours. On monday morning my data only starts to feed in from the 06:00 bar. If the contract begins trading at 17:30 on sunday afternoon in chicago then surely i...

greenspan testimony

i use there web based version through a broadband connection and touch wood have had very few problems. i will enquire as to their cut down version - but they never mentioned that to me. funny that?!?!?

Cqg anyone out there using CQG? i have been using them for two years now and the service is excellent but pricey. i have tried alternatives, like eSignal but they don't seem to handle the rolling of contracts between delivery months. anyone recommend an alternative that doesn't hit the p&l...

new to the site. nice to find like minded people out there. i was short ftse futs from fri - had a 4309 bid in but thought it too greedy so upped my bid to 4358 - how gutted am i now!!!