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To: Nemer who wrote (41798)	12/6/2000 8:05:44 AM
From: virtualsignal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 44573

Nemer Thanks for explaining the slip. Let's see if I'm reading you right. The 1374 is a tick but the quantity of buy contracts in that tick is unknown, could be 1, 2, 5, ..., so if I'm selling 5 contracts @ 1374 into a 2 contract buy @ 1374 tick, I would get a partial fill of 2. The rest (3) would sit until more buyers come in at that price OR would the rest fill at the slippage price of about a 1/4 pt? I haven't hit a real future trade yet, patience is a must when dealing with me :). *ot, I like that yellow line, when it first came out I believed the football player's could see it and would help them target the zone...lol...maybe that's coming someday:). Thanks vs Late for my ALL morning mtg :(

To: Nemer who wrote (41798)	12/6/2000 5:32:20 PM
From: OX	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 44573

hi all, I was going to jump into this PT/stops/slippage discussion earlier, but I'm new to futures trading. (have traded stocks/options for many years--mainly trade index options now--seemed like a natural progression to try out futures). other than having ones stops run over (i.e., my previous msg on this :-), what other differences might there be from having stops on a highly liquid stock? I was going to enter the Paper vs Real Trading based on trading stocks/options, but somehow I get the impression there are some other things different that I'm missing about futures trading. thanks.