Intraday Trading of Grain Futures and Corn Futures

[futurebondtrader 10]

Hello, to anyone that has day-traded grain futures,

 

I am wondering the following:

 

1. Which grain future do you think is the best for intraday trend trading (In terms of both overall dollar movement and reliability of trends)?

 

2. What has your experience been with the mini corn contract in terms of liquidity and slippage?

 

I would tremendously appreciate your thoughts.

 

Thanks

[LiveTradingZone 10]

Hello, to anyone that has day-traded grain futures,

 

I am wondering the following:

 

1. Which grain future do you think is the best for intraday trend trading (In terms of both overall dollar movement and reliability of trends)?

 

2. What has your experience been with the mini corn contract in terms of liquidity and slippage?

 

I would tremendously appreciate your thoughts.

 

Thanks

 

 

Soybean, Wheat, and Corn are all great trend type markets. For the "best" I would say soybean trends more often than the others in my experience.

 

Mini corn is very illiquid. Probably not something you would want to trade. You would have large slippage on your stop orders. Regular sized corn is only about $2k in margin though, but it's best to make sure each trade has less than 2% risk instead of looking at margin.

 

Hope that helps!

[nirofree 10]

Indeed, soybeans, wheat and corn are the most volatile.

In my opinion, corn is the most flat contract.

In some periods, the wheat has some massive moves the overcomes the beans, but you have to know these markets very well before actually trade them...

 

Good luck.

 

Niro