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Trading the new CME E-Micro's (E micro) MES, MNQ, MYM, M2K and other micros

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For those that missed the AMA session with FT71 today:



It was discussed that there is a Micro ES contract (E-Micro) "coming soon" by the CME. The ES is the e-mini of the full sized SP contract, trading at 1/5th value, and it is thought the Micro ES will trade at 1/5th the size of the ES.

I have been advocating the use of Micro CME FX contracts such as the M6E for a couple of years now for a way to traders to cut their teeth but still maintain fully regulated and centralized trading on the futures market, but without the more expensive $12.50/tick price.

Hopefully the Micro ES will see more liquidity than the M6E variant of the 6E EUR/USD.

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I assume some brokers would allow one to hedge the ES over against the new micro ES.

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For those that missed the AMA session with FT71 today:



It was discussed that there is a Micro ES contract (E-Micro) "coming soon" by the CME. The ES is the e-mini of the full sized SP contract, trading at 1/5th value, and it is thought the Micro ES will trade at 1/5th the size of the ES.

I have been advocating the use of Micro CME FX contracts such as the M6E for a couple of years now for a way to traders to cut their teeth but still maintain fully regulated and centralized trading on the futures market, but without the more expensive $12.50/tick price.

Hopefully the Micro ES will see more liquidity than the M6E variant of the 6E EUR/USD.

Mike

I hope it wont face the same fate as M6E and will attract those trading spot FX and CFD.

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This is great news. The only concern as others have pointed out is liquidity.

Since the ES is such a massively liquid instrument that 'everyone' wants to trade. Perhaps the mini version will be attractive.

It does however take time for mini's to gain popularity. Sometimes years. In South Africa we have the ALSI which is the most highly traded index future and tracks the top40 companies. The mini of the ALSI is one 10th the size, the ALMI. For many years the ALMI wasn't really tradable, there just wasn't enough volume. But it has been getting better consistently year on year.

Personally I dont know why mini's aren't more popular. I think they're great.

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Personally I look forward to trading this instrument for various reasons, namely: hedging, arbitrage, and directional plays. I think the volume will come in time considering the popularity of the regular ES contracts.

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The other micros are day trading failures because of the lousy commission and margin structure, but I think the ES is big enough to pull it off. Probably only good for building discipline and not your account though. It will be interesting to see.

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I really hope HFT and bot do their bit to liquidity and volatility.

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The other micros are day trading failures because of the lousy commission and margin structure, but I think the ES is big enough to pull it off. Probably only good for building discipline and not your account though. It will be interesting to see.

Yes the M6E is inferior to 6E in terms of trade costs. But trade costs should be near the bottom of the list for a beginner who is likely to lose 50% of their account in a matter of weeks due to rookie mistakes.

I like the micro's for recommending them to beginners to gain their footing before they move up to the bigger contracts. Of course it's always a battle, because the rookie's are also constantly trying to find the lowest margin, lowest commission brokers --- the ones least likely to give you the best service or advice and most likely to have the highest turnover. So it's a process of educating them.

But if we can get the Micro ES then I think it will be a great learning tool and will help save a lot of rookies from some big losses.

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Yes the M6E is inferior to 6E in terms of trade costs. But trade costs should be near the bottom of the list for a beginner who is likely to lose 50% of their account in a matter of weeks due to rookie mistakes.

I like the micro's for recommending them to beginners to gain their footing before they move up to the bigger contracts. Of course it's always a battle, because the rookie's are also constantly trying to find the lowest margin, lowest commission brokers --- the ones least likely to give you the best service or advice and most likely to have the highest turnover. So it's a process of educating them.

But if we can get the Micro ES then I think it will be a great learning tool and will help save a lot of rookies from some big losses.

Mike

Agreed, good for new people, but you will reach a point where you would like to be able trade the equivalent of 1 to 2 full contracts broken down into 3-6 units, so IMO it's no good for providing a comfortable transition to trading multiple full contracts.

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