Emini Day Trading

TradeStation Announces Launch of All-New Options Trading Platform
17, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TradeStation, the award-winning broker-dealer for stock, options, futures and forex traders, today announced the launch of its all-new OptionStation Pro options trading platform. The launch will coincide with the …
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U.S. Regulators' Epic Fail
There is no guardian angel for futures traders who's ready to step in and backstop the customer accounts of a failed futures broker. There's no insurance fund sitting around waiting to make right the wrongs of that failed broker. …
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MF Global theft has destroyed the confidence in the futures and options markets
After six years of operating as an independent introducing brokerage, and eight years of employment as a broker before that, I found myself, this morning, for the first time since I was 20 years old, watching the futures and options markets open not as …
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Trading system analysis: Learning from perfection
Many trades lasted from 200-300 seconds to one-two hours. Some trades took just a few seconds, perhaps because a quick liquidation was necessary to avoid a big loss. Trades stagnating for two to three hours are found for the E-mini S&P 500 (results of …
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Another advantageous session for E-mini day-traders
Tuesday morning began with strength after the index futures sold off in response to European weakness in premarket trade. Downside gaps filled quickly, but the market had been down even further in early trade, leaving the indices at resistance fairly …
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Is social networking while investing bad for your wallet?
So I would encourage people to buy a well-diversified mutual fund and forget the day trading." The Rice study's author, Dr. Utpal M. Dholakia, a professor of management at Rice University, says social networks can lull users into a sense of comfort …
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Major Indexes Firm as Italy Moves Boost Street Mood; Consumer Sentiment Rises
Stocks are broadly higher in mid-day trading while investors cheered Italy's latest move to approve austerity measures while new data released this morning showed better-than-expected sentiment among US consumers. Positive earnings news also provided a …
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Delphi shares drop in first-day trading
Shares of Delphi Automotive dropped in first-day trading after its initial public offering, highlighting the difficulty the car components-maker has faced in returning to the public markets. The $ 530m IPO was priced at $ 22 on Wednesday night, …
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Angie's List Finishes First Trading Day Up 25%
Like Groupon, the company is not profitable and has focused on growing its membership by ramping up marketing expenses. Analysts had expected Angie's List to do well on the first day, but were less certain about future performance. …
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Congress: Trading stock on inside information?
But, congressional lawmakers have no corporate responsibilities and have long been considered exempt from insider trading laws, even though they have daily access to non-public information and plenty of opportunities to trade on it. …
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Angie's List stock soars in first trading day
The stock is up $ 3.17, or 24%, to $ 16.17 in late morning trading Thursday. For more information about reprints & permissions, visit our FAQ's. To report corrections and clarifications, contact Standards Editor Brent Jones. For publication consideration …
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Congressional Stock Trades Get Scrutiny
7:00 pm ET The STOCK Act, a bill that would ban members of Congress from trading stock based on nonpublic information they get because they're lawmakers, has 61 co-sponsors and counting. And for the first time, after years of languishing without a …
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Brazil Rate-Futures Yields Decline on Slowing Growth; Real Falls
17 (Bloomberg) — Yields on most Brazilian interest- rate futures contracts declined after a report showed Latin America's largest economy grew at its slowest pace in two years, bolstering bets the central bank will prolong its cycle of interest-rate …
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US STOCKS-Euro zone, technicals unnerve Wall Street
About 2.83 million S&P E-Mini futures contracts traded on Thursday, with nearly 250000 changing hands in an unusually busy 15-minute period when the market fell more than 1 percent. The S&P struggled to break above 1225 in August and September before …
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KSE to launch stock index futures contract
KARACHI (APP) – Karachi Stock Exchange will launch Stock Index Futures Contracts (SIFC) on tradable sector indices from January 2012 in oil and gas and banking sectors. According to KSE here Wednesday, oil and gas sector will have four companies namely …
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S&P close to breaking downside minor support levels
Cumulative Volume in S&P 500 and S&P Emini has begun to deteriorate again. CV in Emini was last back below November 1 support low even though S&P Emini prices remain somewhat stronger. Call/Put Dollar Value Flow Line (CPFL) continues to underperform …
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Market recovers from losses, but resistance remains
Cumulative Volume in both S&P 500 and S&P Emini has been in synch with S&P, but on relative basis has not recovered as much of decline from May high as has S&P index. While S&P 500 has recovered about 65% of price losses since May high, …
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Pfizer Receives European Approval to Extend Use of Prevenar 13 to Adults 50 …
NEW YORK, Oct 27, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Pfizer Inc. /quotes/zigman/238207/quotes/nls/pfe PFE +2.00% announced today that the European Commission has approved the Company's pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, Prevenar 13* (pneumococcal polysaccharide …
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Market tracing short-term 'continuation' pattern
Cumulative Volume in both S&P 500 and S&P Emini has been in synch with S&P, but on relative basis has not recovered as much of decline from May high as has S&P index. — Call/Put Dollar Value Flow Line (CPFL) continues to underperform broad market.
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Forex News Spike Trading Signal for November 3rd 2011 – US ISM Non-Manfacturing
Yen Crosses and Emini S&P. It was only +0.3 higher but after some bad readings on this a few months ago, just that it can print above 50 is good. In September, a +2.0 deviation caused a 15 blip on usdjpy, +22 on cadjpy, +25 eurjpy, and about +30 on …
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