Does anyone trade the mini-dow?

[sbrum]

It does not seem worth it, or am I missing something?

[fabrizio]

Dear Sbrum

You missing a lot!

I trade it since april and the multiple $5 is a very liwìquid ( 60.00 contracts) quite technical securities.

Absolutely clear book , is more and more used even by istitutionals for is elettronic liquidity.

Try it , you'll like it . Believe me.

Fabrizio

Ps sooner options on it.

[sbrum]

Thanks for the info Fabrizio!

It seems to move the same as the e-mini s&p, but you can make more per contract with the e-mini.

I must say that the ability to put a lot of multi contracts on the Dow and strip them off as needed is a good thing.

[JayF]

Just as a general heads-up... the a/c/e can sometimes have some inaccuracies due to the way they send out their data. Please see this post for more details.

[fabrizio]

Jay

I'v already red the post you underline.

Honestly speaking I'm an assiduos guest of the exchange pages.

Honestly speaking the trader is certainly right but I trade discrectionary and since April never had problems.

Most of the traders aren't aware of the "revolution" happening on CBOT.....via the migration on new system.

You see Jay, I'm Italian - I'v lived 5 years in US- and by rule I do not trade any Italian security for a simple reason that I totally do not trust the exchange. So a simple problem like the one happend to the trader of the article is " very normal " in IDEM.

Sometimes you fellow americans do not know what actually happen in the other side of the world and how lucky you are!

You got Enron: but eventually someone plead guilty and goes to jail ( the treasurer); you got insider trading and someone eventually go to jail and got pretty fines (Milken , Boeksy).
You got analysts involved in mega billion $ cheatings , but eventually the Investments Banks get Fined.

I call this a civilized country and a system that try to readjust the phisiological mistakes....

In Italy never happened and never will............

Take care