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Re: Which contract should a beginner trade?
I agree with Cooter - any newbies need to be careful when trading contracts that can lock down. That's a dangerous proposition if you don't understand fully what's going on.
I would consider the 'best' US indexes to trade as:
1) ES
2) NQ
3) ER2
4) YM
ES is the most liquid and I think you don't see as many volatile swings since it's an efficient market.
NQ is a nice market and I'd go to that in a heartbeat if the ES wasn't available.
ER2 at times is on crack. When you are right, feels great. Not so great when you are getting beat up.
YM is just slow and low liquidity. If you want to pop a 30 or 50 lot trade, good luck on the YM w/o some nice slippage and/or getting on someone's radar screen. Drop 50 on the ES and no one bats an eye.
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