travelinman

You sound like you are talking more about a Range bar chart when you talk about an 8 tick chart moving 2 points. Tick charts depending on how many ticks you want to show for each bar can move very little or quite a bit for each bar. Range bars will form for a specified number of ticks you want it to, for example if you use a 4 tick range bar for ES it will move a point (4-ticks) and when it moves 1 tick higher or lower than the 4 tick range it will start to form a new bar. If you want to use a tick chart and are not sure how many ticks you want to use you may want to compare it to a time frame chart (say 1-minute) to see if it moves fast enough or slow enough for you forming each bar. It will vary throughout the day and if you include overnight sessions you may see some very large bars form. Hope this helps.

I would suggest you put up a Matrix/Market Analyzer or whatever it is for charting software that will give you each market, last, net change, volume, etc in a table format and than put in current month contracts and next future month contract and compare volume. Here are a couple of websites that I use to get contract months and times market is trading. Gold trades in even months (Feb, April, etc) Futures Contract Symbols Commodity trading Hours Electronic Trading Future Trading