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Old 01-20-2008, 10:21 PM
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Re: Better for scalping: ES or YM?

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Another point could be the tick/point value.

If you are a very short term trader and you scale out or exit on a discretionary basis, then making 1 tick in the ES would mean that you are still profitable, assuming $5 commissions...
That's assuming he never has losing trades and he occasionally has 1 tick losses. Alot of scalpers don't use stops, so if the market runs away on you....ooops.

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