Here is my email to Nadex concerning their 200 tick wide Intraday strikes. I hope I hear from them soon. I will report back here their response:
Hello Nadex,
I have for a couple months now started trading Natural Gas with Binaries and I have noticed something I find very strange about the Intraday strike placements.
The Intraday strikes are 200 ticks wide!? That is crazy, they are basically unusable for that 2 hour period except maybe the at the money strike. These strikes are + or - 2.5 deviations! Intraday strikes are wider than the daily strikes and even the weekly strikes? This doesn’t make sense? Please explain.
Here is a snapshot from your “Contracts Specs" page on NG
As you can see the Intraday are .200 ticks wide, the dailies are .040 ticks wide and the Weeklies are .100 ticks wide?
This does not follow your pattern on other indices. Is this a mistake? If not, how do your justify 200 tick wide intraday strikes and 100 tick wide Weekly strikes?
Maybe you are missing a zero in your algorithm and you meant to set the Intradays to .020 (20) ticks wide? This would make much more sense.
I know traders that have told me they won’t trade NG because of this.
Thank you for looking into this, I look forward to your response
Sincerely,
Christopher