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Thanks Raul. Very interesting, I treated the ES when trading the YM just like you treat the DOW. This will be a new addition on my scanner and will see how handy it will be.
Is liquidiy still low on the DOW?
I completely agree with this comment. Since I trade futures mainly, I can never go back to trading stocks. I feel like futures is the only fair playing field for traders like myself. |
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Trading the big DOW is kinda tricky, well at least back in 93-95 Voulme used to be somehow erratic. Used to be a safe-haven for fund managers to cover their cash. Back in the day of stock's daytrading golden era (90's) the dow was mainly used as a tracking device. Speculators never looked at the dow as a daytrading vehicle and I don't think that has changed. I traded the DOW via Datek in 1997 and I got screwed couple of times due lack of fill
As I said, I still have use for it and to me still is a wondeful way to track the market. Besides, is probably the most watched index as everybody is waiting to break 12,000.
I have the big dow as part of my sectors. I also noticed not too long ago that Dow trasnport ($TRANS) moves faster than the DOW but not as fast as the futures. I hav no idea as to why but I've been trackin them for some time now and it happens very often. I have it on my sectors too.
James, I will suggest to keep an eye on the S&P retail index ($rlx) has been putting some buying pressure on the market lately. New money is coming to this sector, fueled by the decrease of crude oil pirces, therefore consumers has this extra-money (new money) to spend. Yesterday RLX went up as high as 3:50%
Raul