{"id":48657,"date":"2016-01-31T02:18:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T10:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brookstradingcourse.com\/?p=48657"},"modified":"2016-01-31T06:44:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T14:44:09","slug":"why-trade-the-es-sp500-emini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brookstradingcourse.com\/es\/ask-al\/why-trade-the-es-sp500-emini\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Al: Why trade the ES S&P500 Emini?"},"content":{"rendered":"

BPA trading room Q&A: November 10, 2015<\/h2>\n

Al, you sometimes mention that you keep your eye on other products during the day. What is it about the behavior of the Emini that makes it your primary focus for short-term trading, and does this change when the Emini volatility becomes extremely low?
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The most perfect market in the world<\/h3>\n

\"everything-is-awesome-yellen\"<\/a>Yeah, I do watch other markets — I bought the Euro today versus the dollar for 20 pips, and that was the only non-Emini — well, I say that — I believe that\u2019s the only non-Emini that I took today. But the reason why I like the Emini is I think it\u2019s the most perfect market in the world. It has huge computer participation, huge institutional participation, it\u2019s a surrogate for the S&P 500 which is the most important stock market in the world, and makes me feel like I\u2019m a player, that I\u2019m really in with the big boys and big girls — I say \u201cbig girls,\u201d I have a daughter at Harvard Business School — so big boys and big girls. I want to feel like that I\u2019m at the very top of my game and that I\u2019m playing in the highest arena of competition, and I also want to be in a market that is the most fair.<\/p>\n

I know Richard is listening. He will probably listen to this at the end of the day, and he and I have had many discussions about fairness, and I believe the Emini is as close to being a perfect market as there is. Everything that it does is very mathematical and very logical. The logic might be perverse, but it is still logical, and I feel like I have a really good sense of it, and I like the challenge of it. Thus I can make a good living trading it, so that is why I trade it. There are many other things that you could trade in a lot of huge markets, all of them good. Bonds, they move a little slower, fewer ticks per day, so you got more of an issue of the bid-ask spread. Forex markets, huge, but they trade really well.<\/p>\n

Emini the pinnacle of trading<\/h3>\n

For me, I feel like the Emini is the pinnacle of trading. I think it\u2019s the most perfect market, the most institutional market, the most computerized market, and I enjoy it, and it\u2019s also really logical. And it\u2019s not like there\u2019s nothing to do when the markets in a tight trading range or really boring. To me, I see stuff on every bar, every second, every tick, and pretty much on every second off the day. In my mind, I\u2019m processing if I want to buy here, how can I make money? If I want to sell here, how can I make money? And I\u2019m just doing that all day long. And on every bar I\u2019m trying to figure out, \u201cOkay, how can I make money buying this bar? How can I make money selling this bar?\u201d So intellectually, it\u2019s really stimulating.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, when it\u2019s extremely quiet and the range is like a 2-point tight trading range and it\u2019s likely to continue for a long time, I\u2019ll trade other markets. However, usually when the Emini is very quiet, everything else is very quiet. Also, I really don\u2019t like tight trading ranges where you buy below the prior bar, and you wait 30 minutes to make one point. It\u2019s just too much work. I hope that answers your question.<\/p>\n

Differing views on market fairness?<\/h3>\n

But anyway, what I was saying about the Emini being a perfect market and the most impossible market on the planet for traders to cheat trading — I was saying Richard, who runs my Brooks Trading Course website, has a different view on it. He believes that cheating is going on all the time and that firms are conspiring together<\/a> and ganging up to take money from the little guy. And I could go on for a long time about why I think that is not a significant part of the market. For one thing, there are over 200 major institutions trading, and even if you get five of them meeting in a room deciding, \u201cHey, we\u2019re going to take control of the market,\u201d their five is not big enough to push around 195. So they might be able to move things around for two or three ticks for a brief time, but they cannot make the market do something illogical for more than a very brief time and\/or more than a few ticks. And if they start doing it repeatedly during the day, it will be found out. The other 195 firms are not stupid. They have really smart people, and they\u2019ll see a pattern and they\u2019ll stop doing whatever they had been doing that was causing them to lose money and causing those five corrupt, sneaky conspiratory firms<\/a> to make money. So I just think it\u2019s not an issue. It certainly does not affect my trading.<\/p>\n

Al Brooks<\/em><\/p>\n

Information on Al’s Online day trading room<\/a><\/p>\n

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