What is Open interest? How can I use it to trade E-mini Dow ($5) Futures (Sep 2018)?

Open interest is the number of contracts held by traders in active positions — they're not closed or expired. For E-mini Dow ($5) Futures (Sep 2018) this number is 0. You can use it to track a prevailing market trend and adjust your own strategy: declining open interest for E-mini Dow ($5) Futures (Sep 2018) shows that traders are closing their positions, which means a weakening trend.

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E-mini Dow ($5) Futures (Sep 2018) chart

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Sep 2018

Settlement day

Sep 21, 2018

Ideas

YM1 Idea for w/o 4/14/24 Still overall bearish.Still overall bearish, but if we could clear Fridays lows, we could possibly get a scalp in on the retracement to 50% of the fib off Fridays drop. The bigger move however would be the short. There's close liquidity to the sell side on the HTF (Daily).

Short

by Forex_Tez

Week of April 14th - Gold/Oil/DJI/VIX/10yr What a week we just had! Friday we saw aggressive broad selling all the way into the close. The NDX is once again just flopping around in this multi-week range - while The Dow is meaningfully breaking down. For indexes - I will be focusing on the Dow this week. The DJI has been super clean

Long

by Baero-Trading

YM-30M-Tue-4-16-2024 Over all a bearish channel, last 2 candles - Current Bearish and last one Bullish candle.

by rams108

YM-4H-Tue-4-16-2024 Over all in downward channel, last 2 candles are Bullish and making lower lows. Can bounce off lower channel, however over all trend is lower low.

Short

by rams108

YM-D-Tue-4-16-2024 Downward channel since last 2 weeks. Last 2 candles - Last Bearish and current candle is Bullish and making lower lows.

Short

by rams108

Using KEY price action analysis to refine Entries Here is a short video on my key price action concepts which enable me to build a picture of what is happening and what side of the market I should be on. I like to use Anchors to a trend and key levels to build the trades on a 5min and then use the 1min charts for the entries. Enjoy the ramblings

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by TradeTheStructure

Index Futures: April 15th- 19th Bearish on Index Futures. - SMT at previous month's high. - Inversion on daily timeframe. - Monthly BISI as draw on Dow. - ES/NQ lagging behind, expecting a run for previous month's low.

Short

by mill_zaire

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Dow Jones(US30):🔴Possible scenarios🔴(Details on caption) Well, as you can see Dow Jones in the daily chart swept the liquidity and created a new all-time high, then had a bearish reaction and shiffed the market structure as well. after that, the price had a retracement from a bullish FVG to a bearish breaker block and continued to the sell side. For no

Short

by VahidTradingCR

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Dow Jones Non Farm Payroll Day Trading Gameplan I will try to formulate a gameplan for Friday's NY session for a possible day trade Starting with the daily chart Price was in a spike and channel pattern that just got broken out of with its 850 point drop from its high of day. This is a sell signal for people that trade the daily chart. Thur

Short

by travis18haney

Rally Would Setup High RR Short.Markets have been selling hard recently. Done well with shorts but starting to feel it's a bit too easy. Would be much more comfortable shorting into a rally. This may or may not come, but at this point we can prep to trade momentum setups long if the bear move fails and then plan the retracemen

by holeyprofit

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Frequently Asked Questions

The nearest expiration date for E-mini Dow ($5) Futures (Sep 2018) is Sep 21, 2018.

The best time to sell a futures contract is when you've already made money on the investment, but still have plenty of time left before the expiration date. Thus, a good option would be to sell E-mini Dow ($5) Futures (Sep 2018) before Sep 21, 2018.

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