Comments on: Emini Day Trading Series: What Are Emini S&P 500 Futures?

By: The Samurai Trader

The Samurai Trader — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 04:14:47 +0000

In reply to MFIJ. Glad you liked it! Day trading Eminis is a bit of a different world from the buy and hold philosophy but it's definitely possible to do a bit of both. Risk is risk, after all, and if you can manage it well in the long term you can likely do so in the short term too with a bit of practice. Check out my next post in this series if you want to see a bit more on how stock and futures trading differ.

By: MFIJ

MFIJ — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:06:11 +0000

I really enjoyed this post. As a long-term buy and hold investor, it’s great trying to learn how a day trader thinks.

By: The Samurai Trader

The Samurai Trader — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:20:32 +0000

In reply to Mike. You're welcome, Mike. Glad you found it useful! Keep an eye out this week as there are more articles in the Emini Day Trading Series coming. One of them will show how money is made in Eminis and will go over the costs involved like commissions and the trading platform. A later article will cover everything you need to get started including account size, your computer for trading, etc.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:49:52 +0000

Thank you very much for this post!
Whats still pretty confusing to me are the fees for the data-feed and the broker. Until now i couldnt figure out how much this would make per month and transaction ;-)

cheers
mike