20170905
Short 2 RTY 1415.7, 11415.4, +3.0, +2.0
Total RTY +5.0
Welcome back to the markets. ...and goodbye ICE....good riddance. I'll find somewhere else to trade gold futures.... assuming I ever really want to again...
Trading the Russell 2000 is still the sweetest music on the board... but couldn't CME have come up with a better contract symbol.... I mean, wouldn't renaming it ER be a bit of sweet revenge..? And when I'm invited back to sit in on the next CME Product Release meeting..... uh huhm... next week, I think.... I'm also going to recommend they take the contract size back to $100.00 per pt. All for the motion, say aye....
But there is one thing you can all do. Send a message to CQG or NinjaTrader or IB LLC or whomever,
and plead sincerely for historical RTY data that is inclusive of not only the TF ICE history, but also of the ER CME history, so that we can have long term charts that visualize price peaks and troughs in parallel with those of the ES, YM and NQ contracts. I was actually told by someone at Ninjatrader that "we can't do that. they aren't the same contract". Really ? The Russell 2000 isn't the Russell 2000, regardless of what symbol is attached to the nearby futures month or what futures exchange has leased the rights to host its servers? Well, ....what do you expect. They're not traders.... but even that bit of fundamental understanding should be obvious to them all. Plesse plead the case at:
support@ampfutures.com
Info@ninjatraderecosystem.com
support@kinetick.com
https://www.cqg.com/support
https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=customerService&p=email
and respond promptly with any nonsensical replies that the RTY contract "is not the same contract"
as was the ER or TF. ...pure nonsense and a very convenient but erroneous excuse....
