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Old 01-12-2007, 01:17 PM
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Re: Trding volume in the futures market

Hey Buck,

The reason for that is because the regular cash market hours are from 9:30-4, so thats when the majority of volume occurs in the index futures. As for the overnight volume and price fluctuations being lackluster for the most part...yea, it is. If you're in a trade and all heck breaks loose globally, you'll be either very happy if youre short, or very sad if youre long.

It's just like stocks if they get some bad news and youre in a trade with that issue. There's never gaurantees, but probabilities there are.

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