I trade CL. I would like to track and possibly trade others with high volatility.

December 27th, 2013, 05:15 PM

nemeis45

you will love gold, silver

How is the slippage/fill in SI, I have not had time to investigate SI, but have always wanted to trade it.

December 27th, 2013, 05:21 PM

well the liquidity is definitely below NYMEX WTI, even more in silver when compared to gold
but they are pretty volatile which should make up for it.

December 31st, 2013, 07:02 AM

Thanks to everyone for their input.

Very, Very helpful.

TF and gold have been added to my watch list.

I will look at the others also.

December 31st, 2013, 09:28 PM

I recently left CL to trade for awhile on GC.

While trading crude, I noticed an automated strategy I was sim testing was doing well on gold. It is a volatility breakout signal.

After many months of watching it, I noticed gold trends in channels nicely and then has great volatility breakouts.
It seems to trade like a currency and then take off in big moves to another place.

SO for a breakout/scalp thing I do, GC works better for me than CL. Even though the system was developed on CL.

I run it on auto for the crude now , and do GC discretionary.

shane

January 28th, 2014, 12:27 AM

I would echo the sentiments that TF and FDAX are worth considering alongside CL.

For me GC, SI & NG are not quite similar, although NG is the closest.

I find the currencies lack volatility intraday (say 5min timeframe). They behave as different products to CL/TF/FDAX.

January 31st, 2014, 05:53 PM

just started trading CL and GC, they're great instruments, nice fast moves, love the runs to support on the way down, really nice follow thru

March 9th, 2014, 08:17 PM

Hi: Just started trading CL recently, after years of trading forex. Love the volatility. I noticed CL's overall volume is lower than that of forex. I'm currently just daytrading 1 or 2 lots at a time (average hold time is about 10 min). Wondering what is the maximum lot size CL can handle during floor hours (ie. being able to open/close trades without my orders being broken up and incurring additional slippage). Any thoughts?

March 9th, 2014, 08:43 PM

freestyler

Hi: Just started trading CL recently, after years of trading forex. Love the volatility. I noticed CL's overall volume is lower than that of forex. I'm currently just daytrading 1 or 2 lots at a time (average hold time is about 10 min). Wondering what is the maximum lot size CL can handle during floor hours (ie. being able to open/close trades without my orders being broken up and incurring additional slippage). Any thoughts?

14 lots read this https://www.fca.org.uk/static/documents/final-notices/coscia-appendix-1a.pdf

March 9th, 2014, 09:19 PM

freestyler

Hi: Just started trading CL recently, after years of trading forex. Love the volatility. I noticed CL's overall volume is lower than that of forex. I'm currently just daytrading 1 or 2 lots at a time (average hold time is about 10 min). Wondering what is the maximum lot size CL can handle during floor hours (ie. being able to open/close trades without my orders being broken up and incurring additional slippage). Any thoughts?

I once traded over 12 car live on CL for a session just for the heck of it. (worst I've done is on the 6E).
It starts slipping or splitting over 8-10 contracts I recalled. i.e. some of the contracts were slipped over by a tick, or split up etc. , if Ninja's trade marking is authoritative enough on a live account. Probably dependent on volume and activity at
any given time too.

March 11th, 2014, 03:19 PM

You can trade the following: CL, ES, EUR, NQ, YM, and GC

And, I have traded all of them, but settled down to just the ES and CL.

Hope that helps

I trade CL. I would like to track and possibly trade others with high volatility.

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I trade CL. I would like to track and possibly trade others with high volatility.