Recent content by superfrank

I've found the explanations of the various matching algorithms, but cannot find which algorithm each futures market uses. I'm specifically interested in 6B, 6E, CL, DX and FDAX. I naively assumed that all orders would be matched on a FIFO basis, but this is obviously not the case. My...

did you mean to just repeat the opening post? what's your point?!

Sounds like an interesting edge. I agree that it makes more sense to do it for the DAX. Please post more if you find a way to get the formula realtime. Hitting any overreactions, taking into account other indcators, might prove a profitable angle.

I'm not sure about Infinity - they don't publish their commissions on the website and when I emailed them to find out what they were I got the following reply... "The commotion would start at $4.80 round turn per contract inclusive of all fees". Commotion!!! :lol:

The problem is that demo trading doesn't involve the same emotions as live trading. You can paper trade your way to $millions, but it's no guarantee that you can make the same good decisions when playing with real money. My advice would be to get stuck in with live trading with small stakes...

YG - mini-sized Gold Futures - $3.32

Thanks for the info. I just assumed that moving orders to another price would reset the order time with respect to order priority. So there is a slight advantage to placing orders out of the money and moving them up/down to get filled when you want to get involved?

I'm using Mirus Futures with Dorman Trading. I've been impressed with everything else so far. Trading FDAX.

Hello everyone, I'm new to futures trading, so I apologise in advance if I use any incorrect terminology. I have question for more experienced people... When placing limit orders are they placed in a queue with the priority being decided by the time those orders were placed, and nothing else...