$10 Dow, $5 Dow match

[The Bear]

	Quote:	torero
	It's possible the slippage will be bigger in big Dow due to lack of volume. Have you verify if there is slippage bigger than in smaller Dow, just a thought.

Not really, I trade the big dow DD contract, and I haven't yet gotten bad slippage. Expect though a wide spread of $150-200 / contract, so your stop has to be pretty big for even 1 contract just to avoid whipsaw.

The $10.00 is available for overnight GLOBEX and pit during the day. It's pretty useless for me.

DD is a great weapon but it would be nice to see more than 90 trades in 1 day. Why is it such a bloody flop after all this time. I would think - anything to do with the dow would be attacked.

[dalby]

i am pretty sure the big dow (25) *is* fungible with the mini dow (5).

this would offer the same opp that the original trader desired, in terms of commissions saving - they would be very nice

consider that if you buy 2 big dows (equivalent of 10 minis) you pay about $4 to be long 10 contracts vs. $20. that is a MAJOR commissions savings

the problem is that commission is only really a big issue when you are scalping. if you are going for 3-8 points or so, it's much more significant than if you are going for 15+

and since the big dow has such terrible spread, it's non scalpable

i am also pretty sure that the big dow is fungible with the mini through IB. not 100% sure though