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Postby PTG » Tue Feb 23, 2010 11:03 am

es/pip wrote:
adaseb wrote:
MightyOne wrote:
adaseb wrote:ES/PIP

How do the currency futures work exactly.

I know the

euro (EC)
pound (BP)
Yen (jy)

But it feels weird trading these when they are not connected to another pair like it is on the cash forex.


They are connected to the dollar as es/pip said.


Oh I see. So futures are worth getting into if you primarily trade larger than 1 full lots? Since you pay a 1 pip spread instead of the 2-3 on some pairs.

How much money do you need to put down to buy one of those contracts?

Is it like the options in stocks where 1 contract handles 100 shares. Where here 1 contract handles 100,000 units of currency?


they tick at 12.50 per tick so that would be 12.5 small lots or 125, 000

its 500 margin per contract

yeah you need to have decent amount of money just because you lose the ability to compound at the smaller levels via mini/ micro lots

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the euro ticks at 12.50 not sure about the other ones---probably be the same if not its close i'm sure


This is the forex-futures products homepage from CME: http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/fx/
http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/fx/fx-p ... aders.html

They have also introduced E-Micro's for EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/USD, USD/CAD, AUD/USD, USD/CHF with 1/10 of the contract size, comparable to microlots in spot. The only issue right now is that the volume is low.
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Postby Fxtraveller » Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:41 pm

I will come back to posting in this thread, SKype chat room has gone wrong. Too much chit chat, very little trading

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Postby es/pip » Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:11 am

posted earlier about how ej wanted to go up on the daily and that i was long. it only wanted to go up till it didn't anymore lol

was up around 200 pips in that trade and closed it +55 :oops:


then shorted into the bounce and added on the way down and out at previous support :D


also played this dollar trade off a failed high and covered back into prev support

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Postby Fxtraveller » Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:37 am

Great trades es/pip.

Here is what I saw, but only got a small piece of..

Trading H4/D1 is oh so much easier, but holding on to appropriate profits (number of pips) is oh so hard =[
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Postby MightyOne » Thu Feb 25, 2010 11:53 am

Fxtraveller wrote:Great trades es/pip.

Here is what I saw, but only got a small piece of..

Trading H4/D1 is oh so much easier, but holding on to appropriate profits (number of pips) is oh so hard =[


You just get position on a long term chart and then hedge when and where possible and re-enter at a better price (and adjusted position size) using your profit as a cushion.

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Postby MightyOne » Thu Feb 25, 2010 12:35 pm

es/pip wrote:posted earlier about how ej wanted to go up on the daily and that i was long. it only wanted to go up till it didn't anymore lol

was up around 200 pips in that trade and closed it +55 :oops:


then shorted into the bounce and added on the way down and out at previous support :D


also played this dollar trade off a failed high and covered back into prev support

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Postby es/pip » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:05 pm

MightyOne wrote:
es/pip wrote:posted earlier about how ej wanted to go up on the daily and that i was long. it only wanted to go up till it didn't anymore lol

was up around 200 pips in that trade and closed it +55 :oops:


then shorted into the bounce and added on the way down and out at previous support :D


also played this dollar trade off a failed high and covered back into prev support

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are you showing the same thing i was seeing but just on a d3 time frame

or

are you trying to show me something else



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Postby es/pip » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:06 pm

going to post a m5 chart when i get back from the gym showing how i scalp s/r----- going to take some time to mark it all up
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Postby dragon33 » Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:15 pm

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Postby IN-XS » Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:22 pm

Hi Dragon, nice to have you back. Your charts look cleaner and nice trade by the way.

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