Recent content by Remiraz

Oanda will be introducing "Box Options" which are basically Fixed Odds betting thingy. Too bad we don't know when it'll be out. Refco have their Options platform. http://www.refcospot.com/ Anyone using it to place bets? Good? The "minimum bet sizes" are kind of big, like requiring bets of...

Hi, I just found out about Carry Systems for FX thru a thread on ET forums. Anyone here trading this sort of system or have any links to sites/threads discussing such systems? The search button doesn't show any results here. What is a Carry System? Forex currency pairs pays carry interests...

One problem with MA is that they don't predict anything. A breakout candle that causes an MA cross can lead to a trend OR a huge reversal. It is impossible to tell. Even if it leads to a trend, you missed most of the action already. (lag) What methods lead the market? Well heres one: Picking...

Hi, anyone mech system traders wanna share stories of their startups? :D I'm a fledging newcomer trying to absorb all the information overflow i have gathered attempting to trade mechanically these 3 mths. Thankfully my tuition fee was small (US$500). How long did it take for you to get ur...

Didn't interest rate hit rock bottom just months ago? The Feds are slowly hiking the interest rates if I'm not wrong. That might mean a stronger dollar, no? But even after all the analysis we have done to get a 100% perfectly correct prediction, USA might go to war with North Korea or something...

Yes, maybe i'll go ER2 and NQ for bigger size. thanks.

Didn't you tell me to back off in the post quoted above? :confused: This is a great thread and I'm a newbie trader, I don't want to hijack it because of any misconceptions I might have. :D My original line of thought was: 1) Buying pressure and Selling pressure is triggered by changes in the...

ES and YM basically have the same moves. (well roughly) But moves on the YM is about 7 times that of ES. 1 pt move on ES ($50) usually is 7 pts on YM ($35). Considering that...ES has better value. NQ move is abt 2.2 times of ES's. ($44) ES still wins. Hmmm...thats a good point.

Yes I'm paying US$4.14 rd turn on YM and US$4.80 with IB. Not much difference there. YM spread is 1 tick. So I still need 2 pts move to cover costs. ES spread is 1 tick too. Which means 2 tick move to cover cost again lol. Hmmm...YM seems to be a better choice right now. I wonder if the low...

Anyone still interested in discussing abt ES vs NQ vs YM? I'm considering NQ vs YM but the volume in YM seems lacking.

Hi, thanks for the interest. This thread might just die right now because I am beginning to believe that volume(buying/selling pressure) is a lagging indicator for the index futures I'm learning to trade. I realised Index futures' supply and demand reacts according to the underlying index, thus...

Yes I see... 1) SPX shoots thru the roof (making new highs). 2) You sell down ES with 10,000 contracts. 3) ES goes back up to SPX's level after initial spike down due to your selling. Analysis : Greater buying pressure in ES due to where SPX is. (Arb-ers forms the majority of the buyers...

Thanks man. After some experimenting I find tick to be noisy too. Sticking to my 1,3 and 5 min charts for ES. I not doing Spot FX anymore. Learning to trade ES currently and might do a bit of Euro FX Futures. Using Interactive Brokers.

ES = Emini S&P500 Index Futures SPX = S&P500 Stock Index The answer I got on ET was Supply/Demand only affects arb-ing the ES vs SPX. Since ES is pegged to SPX, wouldn't that makes all supply and demand analysis on ES useless? Say you sell 10,000 contracts of ES while SPX is making new highs...

What about the 90 tick charts, 233 tick charts, 100 tick charts? Any intervals other than the 1 tick chart?