Registered: Feb 2007
Posts: 5079

actually the BUND is the big boy...more vol than ES, YM, TY etc.ER2

Registered: Apr 2006
Posts: 136

think it has 2nd highest volume of anything apart from Fed Funds. (trader monthly, 2006).

you may not love it but your clearer will.

Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 263

Does anyone like US 5 and 10 years also. What is the opinion on these? Ive not traded them so I cant coment. Theres a lot of history though going back to the 80's on the 10 years especially. Anyone trade these also?

Registered: Apr 2004
Posts: 208

If you're gonna trade bund -

Registered: May 2009
Posts: 202

The other advantage of bund, bobl and schatz is the commission cost. I don't know any other future that is cheaper than these three.
Eurostoxx is a bit more expensive. ES a LOT more expensive to trade in terms of commission.

Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 589

I'm surprised so many people said the Bund was not good for trading. Maybe back in 2007 that was the case but I've been trading it for 6 months now and I've been doing well. I trade Bund in the European morning and ES in the US morning and my Bund performance is much better than my ES peformance.

The last poster is right, the bund commission is roughly half that of ES (comparing commission to tick value). Getting half price commissions is huge. Makes it much easier to scalp. I'm not really a scalper but I don't hesitate to scale out if it doesn't move my way.

Here's my bund equity curve since Oct 29 (prior to that I was trading different setups):

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