Recent content by superdoug3

thank you I see 6A fell 553 pts over 5 days. In a case like this, would your Sell Order (Stop Loss) likely be not executed, for a big loss to you and others? I ask, because someone else suggested placing an out of the money Put Option as insurance against such disasters. Being a newbie...

Pit hours are during the day but the CME board shows Globex as 17:00-16:00 next day, which I presume is availability of the system, but the actual trading goes on only during pit times. With Forex, seems like you time your trading with the market hours of the country you are trading (Asia, UK...

I am in for a learning curve. I backtested (Forex Tester Optimizer) 16 futures over 7 years of data and found only a few Symbols that trend strongly. Currencies 6B, 6E, 6J, 6S minis - NQ and TF I tried the grains and too ranging. any suggestions on others to try ? I have lots to learn...

Excuse my ignorance, that is why I posted in Options Forum as you guys are the experts. 'buying a call at the strike price of a put' For example, if the stock (or index) is $4 today and I buy a LONG future contract and I want to protect unlimited loss by a put at $2, you say I should buy a...

Newbie question - There is a thread in Futures forum discussing the possibility of using 'out of the money' Option to insure against unlimited losses on a Futures contract. Basically, buying an 'out of the money' Put as insurance against losing a huge amount in the advent that a contract...

I am trying do the reverse. i.e. I educated myself in Forex but find I can not find a Forex broker in Canada so am converting my data to Currency Futures. I am setting up my Symbol definition in Forex Tester (to optimize my strategy) and from this thread, am I to understand that there is not...