Yes, micros and any instrument can be traded from NinjaTrader Chart Trader.

DO you know what the margins are for IB? I couldn't find on there site.

I love it after blowing a few accounts over the years 5000 aand 2500 in ES. I can now use larger stops let my entries play out. I have not placed a option trade in two weeks, no more time decay. My goal is only 50 - 100 dollars a day what i need to replace my salary. With the recent volatility I getting that using one mes contact easily.

Micro futures have not only allowed me to be able to trade more than one contract at a time(and make more money), but it also saved my bacon yesterday when Prez Trump made his tweet about not putting a tariff on autos. I was short an E-micro and when it started shooting up, my computer decided to lock up. So, by the time I got to my second computer and got to a page I could cover my short, I was down $100. If I had been trading an E-mini, it would have been $1,000! Yes, I was being careless by not having a closer stop loss, but I was testing new routines and just got preoccupied.

Anyway, I just love these Micro Index Futures. I can hold a position much longer without feeling the severe pain I had trading E mini's. This allows my position more time to work and so far I've done better by having this option. Plus as another person said, Sim trading just doesn't have the same feel as real money.

So now I trade Micro futures every day and make or lose $20-30 over 4-6 hours and have a blast. As such, it now falls under entertainment rather than high pressure. Heck a fancy movie can cost this much and don't even talk about going out to eat. Plus I learn a lot and end up getting great ideas. And if I want, by buying more contracts, I can "graduate" to the E-mini level without having to go there.

I predict Micro Index Futures, on a volume basis, will eventually exceed that of the Mini Index Futures. This will generate a lot of nice commissions for the brokers, and isn't that why they are doing this? So, a win-win. Yee-haw!

I got scare off of considering AMP because a couple of the reviews stated issues with getting their money withdrawn.

Opened an account with Tradestation this week. They are offering .50 commission on the micro minis. Pretty competitive I thought considering that includes no platform fee and free market data.

... no software fees, free market data and free premium tools."

Thanks for pointing this out, just noticed this on their web site. Finally, Tradestation being a bit more aggressive on pricing.


This is the link: https://www.tradestation.com:443/pricing/
"Single-Tier Plan
Trade futures for $1.50 per contract, per side and CME Micro e-mini index futures for $0.50 per contract, per side with no software fees, free market data and free premium tools."

Real time cme futures market data is 40 bucks. Can you point me to the free market data? I can only see free stock market data. Trading stocks is 5 bucks per site. Competitive to me looks different.

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