Big oil vs mini order flow (CL vs QM)

October 24th, 2013, 12:19 PM

Ive been trading the mini crude (QM) contract a bit and have been wondering about the relationship with the CL contract. ive had both DOM and tick streams up and was wondering if you follow the CL closer and use that for decisions rather than QM order flow. My thoughts have been that since CL is the "real" contract and more liquid, the QM is reactionary. Im not trying to arb either, i tend to use a market profile type strategy. Thanks.

October 24th, 2013, 12:32 PM

A 4 range QM chart looks pretty close to 10 range CL chart, which is what you would expect. If the price action is approximately the same and your order flow analysis is the approximately the same, then there's your answer. If your order flow analysis from QM to CL is dramatically different, then...there's your answer?

October 24th, 2013, 05:31 PM

cjone

Ive been trading the mini crude (QM) contract a bit and have been wondering about the relationship with the CL contract. ive had both DOM and tick streams up and was wondering if you follow the CL closer and use that for decisions rather than QM order flow. My thoughts have been that since CL is the "real" contract and more liquid, the QM is reactionary. Im not trying to arb either, i tend to use a market profile type strategy. Thanks.

Please look at the existing thread for starters:

CL vs QM (crude oil) tick size/value, margins

So a friend (George) and I were chatting via Skype today, and it got me looking at QM (emini) again compared to CL.

I first looked at QM several months ago when I stopped trading ES and started trading CL. At that point I discarded it almost immediately …

Mike

October 24th, 2013, 06:03 PM

this is good! thank you.

Big oil vs mini order flow (CL vs QM)

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