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Old 01-29-2007, 03:54 AM
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Re: Slippage in Futures?

no such thing as slippage, what you are experiancing is called market movement if you are using market orders to enter or exit a trade.

if you go to sell a 5 lot of YM at the market and there are only 3 buyers at the best bid, you're pushing the price lower on yourself to the next best bid, which is 1 tick lower. If you want to avoid this "slippage" use limit orders, you may not get filled on your whole order mind you.

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