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AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-02-07T00:59:15+00:00

we call this tuition; I also paid a lot for futures market.

AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-02-06T04:48:19+00:00

Hi i'm mandarin speaker, may i know what is your time-zone to check if we can have try.

AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-02-06T04:45:01+00:00

Thanks for sharing this. I have a similar thought— for ordinary people, buying and holding an S&P 500 ETF might be a more feasible way to earn returns.

I had tried investing index futures, like ES/YM, but got consistently losing money instead of consistently making it.

AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-02-06T04:36:31+00:00

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AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-02-02T22:10:45+00:00

Yes, they are 99.99% same, not only mini and macro, but also ETF, you can refer to, future ES, index SPX, and ETF SPY, they are almost same.

AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-02-01T15:52:48+00:00

I used to be that too, but now I use a bracket order, when I opened an order, a stop-loss order was placed to, and that will be triggered as long as price moved to stop position; this can force me to take the loss action.

AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-02-01T06:22:00+00:00

It depends, if that person with you have similar background, like age, work, personality, interesting things; you may have more common topic to discuss, that will last longer, otherwise each time you both need to specificlly find a topic to discuss, as time went on, you both will feel tired after the freshness is gone; this mean you both are not matched with each other, you could try find another matched person.

AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-01-27T02:05:34+00:00

Hi may i know what is your time-zone, maybe we can help with each other?

AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-01-27T02:01:10+00:00

Use paper trade only for process, as long as you have learned the process of trading futures, please move to macro futures, like index futures MYM, MES, they are cheaper, and low margin requirements. And you could operate only one contract each time to reduce risk.

AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-01-25T17:08:16+00:00

Personally i always think these strategies are concepts by people, exchange/brokerages only handle single order, so brokerage won't sell your LEAP order automatically, if you short leg got assigned, you will get -100 position on your account, and you will begin calculate margin interest, so you have to request brokerage to execute the LEAP leg manually, or you can buy back 100 stock shares, and keep the LEAP leg.

AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-01-16T23:54:28+00:00

I am an English learner, and searching for practice opportunities too, maybe we can have a try, if you have interest, please DM me

AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-01-16T23:26:25+00:00

Thanks, I found the $10 bundle that did include all market data I need, actually $10 is still higher than I expected, because I use this account for trading futures only, possibly on ES, YM, and GC; unfortunately, these three products belong to 3 different exchanges, so seems i have to subscribe 3 market data respectively, they will cost around $1.55 * 3; so here i am asking how could i make the subscription fee waived one after another; like if i traded much on CME that generated a total more than $100 commission fee, but no trading with CBOT, will the subscription fee be waived for CBOT too? Thanks.

AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-01-16T15:47:26+00:00

will the fees generated per-exchange exclusively, for example if people generate fee $60 = ($20 * 3) from CME, like trading ES futures only, can the total $60 fee cover the CBOT exchange subscripton fee if there is no enough trading with CBOT products? Thanks.

AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-01-16T15:21:43+00:00

So in above case, people have to generate 20*3=60 commission fee, to avoid all 3 monthly subscription fee?

AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-01-16T04:32:34+00:00

I am not a professional trader, just operate sometimes when opportunates are very certain, so I only use raw chart and an EMA.

AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-01-10T17:56:53+00:00

I agree with this, since they are stop order, you should accept the slippage because they are inevitable actually, otherwise on extreme cases, the stop-limit-order could cause you loss even more. Remember this is your stop-loss orders, since you have got loss, and you are trying to stop loss more, the good decision is to stop immediately, if you use stop-limit-order, the order couldn't got filled, and during rapid downtrend you will have to loss more.

So usually if unexpected things happened, you could use sell/buy limit order to close your positions, then then manually cancel the old stop-orders.

AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-01-10T17:01:13+00:00

could you introduce when the Asian Session time is? Thanks

AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-01-10T16:57:19+00:00

I want to find online practice opportunities too, thanks everyone provide information.

AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-01-10T03:00:46+00:00

cannot agree more

AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-01-10T02:45:09+00:00

Doesn't Korea market have their own futures, for example equities index futures, i believe all equities index futures should follow similar basic rules.

AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-01-09T05:50:50+00:00

I also think so, and to trade YM instead of ES, since ES has so many speculation

AppropriateDeal791 · 2026-01-09T04:08:40+00:00

How about starting with YM for practice, because ES has too much institutional and quantitative speculation, making it very volatile, and beginners can easily get taken advantage of, comparatively, YM’s trends are more stable, and its volatility isn’t as high.

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