when I trade the gap its for for continuation only
how can you compare the two ?
don't understand the question.
volume on ftse is the volume of shares traded.
volume on liffe is volume of contracts.
dont understand the last part either.
"pricing of futures and cash in terms of the trade"?
what does that mean ?
"contract size" ?
margin or ntr varies
how can you compare the two ?
don't understand the question.
volume on ftse is the volume of shares traded.
volume on liffe is volume of contracts.
dont understand the last part either.
"pricing of futures and cash in terms of the trade"?
what does that mean ?
"contract size" ?
margin or ntr varies
Ouch on the long at 70.
I made the cardinal sin of getting my time frames mixed up so I have been in a losing trade for a few weeks - indeed since the ftse was last at 4075. The market then went south and I had to wait. Now I need it to make 4100. Does anyone think that is likely?
On the subject of the Yahoo charts, this is what I use and must say intraday they give very good results - if you're happy to get only the major moves in the day - and combine this with a bit of inside knowledge of the markets. I use the method to update automatically every minute that I think Bonsai reported.
I made the cardinal sin of getting my time frames mixed up so I have been in a losing trade for a few weeks - indeed since the ftse was last at 4075. The market then went south and I had to wait. Now I need it to make 4100. Does anyone think that is likely?
On the subject of the Yahoo charts, this is what I use and must say intraday they give very good results - if you're happy to get only the major moves in the day - and combine this with a bit of inside knowledge of the markets. I use the method to update automatically every minute that I think Bonsai reported.
Never mind, it just did it.
Anyway the stochastics show a good trigger, and the trend is broken, however, in my experience this will drift up to the median and then down before US open where the real action begins. What say you?
B.T.W. The Yahoo data is without delay, which means I get a kind of streaming intraday for absolutely free, not bad
Have you seen the volume today, it's crap. I'm getting pretty tired of this FTSE underperformance as its worth quite a bit of money to me right now. :!:
Anyway the stochastics show a good trigger, and the trend is broken, however, in my experience this will drift up to the median and then down before US open where the real action begins. What say you?
B.T.W. The Yahoo data is without delay, which means I get a kind of streaming intraday for absolutely free, not bad
Have you seen the volume today, it's crap. I'm getting pretty tired of this FTSE underperformance as its worth quite a bit of money to me right now. :!:
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Bonsai
re volume thanks did not understand the figures
re size etc I meant are your deals in multiples of 10 like the futures and is the margin requirement the same if you trade cash of future contracts from futures chart rather than the index.
I hope that makes sense.
Kevin
re volume thanks did not understand the figures
re size etc I meant are your deals in multiples of 10 like the futures and is the margin requirement the same if you trade cash of future contracts from futures chart rather than the index.
I hope that makes sense.
Kevin
Bonsai,
What parts of Bloomberg do you think are better - in what way? I tend to think it's a bit pipe and slippers - but each to their own. They do show the ftse futures, but I'm not sure if they're any use, they usually just scare me during my trades. I have found the market moves more in my direction when I watch Bloomberg, but surely I can't be THAT superstitious can I?
What parts of Bloomberg do you think are better - in what way? I tend to think it's a bit pipe and slippers - but each to their own. They do show the ftse futures, but I'm not sure if they're any use, they usually just scare me during my trades. I have found the market moves more in my direction when I watch Bloomberg, but surely I can't be THAT superstitious can I?