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  1. If you had £50,000 UK Sterling and had to invest it today, what would you do with it?

    If you want to INVEST in GBP, I would consider long-term UK Gilts. Prices have been under pressure in recent months amid the outlook for...
    Post by: H2O, Jan 17, 2025 in forum: Trading

  2. Lease Algo Use? Licenses? Process?

    Take liquidity is lifting offers / hitting bids (i.e. remove liquidity provided by other market participants). The opposite would be to provide...
    Post by: H2O, Oct 24, 2023 in forum: Professional Trading

  3. CME intermarket exchange spreads for equities

    https://www.cmegroup.com/clearing/margins/inters.html#exchange=CME&sector=EQUITY+INDEX&pageNumber=1 (I think you were at the correct page...
    Post by: H2O, May 18, 2023 in forum: Trading

  4. Why does the Euro short-term rate (€STR) not reflect the 50 bp ECB hike?

    From: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/financial_markets_and_interest_rates/euro_short-term_rate/html/eurostr_qa.en.html The broad scope of the...
    Post by: H2O, Mar 22, 2023 in forum: Fixed Income

  5. Bond Execution failure?

    Plenty of factors at play here: (Corporate) bonds trade OTC, not on a centralised marketplace. A trade agreed between 2 parties can be reported...
    Post by: H2O, Nov 5, 2022 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  6. relative drift of two stocks

    I suggest you read up on cointegration
    Post by: H2O, Sep 14, 2022 in forum: Strategy Building

  7. Sovereign german bonds and bills questions

    To answer your question: Bloomberg terminal suggests VD for German sovereign bonds is T + 2 (i.e. settle on 25/08) Quoted spreads may be wide in...
    Post by: H2O, Aug 23, 2022 in forum: Fixed Income

  8. Does T3 ever provide capital, or just better leverage? I don't use more than 5x anyway.

    As mentioned in the post you quoted, I traded firm capital only. Risk management set my trading limits based on my trading style (and I assume on...
    Post by: H2O, Jun 29, 2022 in forum: Prop Firms

  9. Barchart: Quality of Data?

    Nothing negative on Barchart (never really used them), but if you're looking for high-quality EOD data you should consider CSI:...
    Post by: H2O, Feb 8, 2022 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  10. Calendar or Butterfly! ( futures to futures)

    When trading futures spreads, butterflies etc. you're taking a view on the (future) shape of the curve. Technical traders generally fade any...
    Post by: H2O, Jan 19, 2022 in forum: Risk Management

  11. How can a contract move with volumes of 0?

    I expect you are refering to daily settlement prices. For more info on how these are set (also in the event of no trading):...
    Post by: H2O, Sep 2, 2021 in forum: Trading

  12. Fully automated futures trading

    I would appreciate getting more insight in your approach to RV strategies / calendars. Aside from the technical implementation (fills / risk), I...
    Post by: H2O, Aug 27, 2021 in forum: Journals

  13. brokers that have stop loss on close

    How do you think that would work? If the "close" price (i.e. the last traded price of the session) is your trigger, when is your stop order...
    Post by: H2O, Aug 4, 2021 in forum: Risk Management

  14. How do Stock Futures work?

    I don't know if you have access to options markets and if the stocks you are looking to short have sufficient options liquidity - If so,...
    Post by: H2O, Jun 8, 2021 in forum: Index Futures

  15. what is the purpose of delta hedging?

    Delta hedging (as per the title of the thread) aims to remove directionality from a trade by offsetting the delta of one position (say the -400 in...
    Post by: H2O, Mar 25, 2021 in forum: Options

  16. If you desired to buy such a massive stock position it would move the markets could you do it with o

    You would need to sell puts, not buy them It is unlikely that you would be able to sell 100 puts at an 'acceptable' price if 10k shares is a...
    Post by: H2O, Mar 4, 2021 in forum: Options

  17. Fully automated futures trading

    How did you handle precision in SQLite (as SQLite does not support the 'DECIMAL' datatype)? Store all values as 'TEXT' and do not perform any...
    Post by: H2O, Feb 1, 2021 in forum: Journals

  18. why does prop trading have such a high turn over?

    I think you are confusing true prop with a lot of the 'programs' out there at the moment. To give you an example, when I was hired (>15yr ago), I...
    Post by: H2O, Jan 22, 2021 in forum: Prop Firms

  19. Meet the anti-crypto crowd

    In my (limited) understanding of the asset class, blockchain (technology) is the platform - Bitcoin is a means of payment for validation of...
    Post by: H2O, Dec 16, 2020 in forum: Crypto Assets

  20. CGT in EU countries

    Following Brexit, Gibraltar no longer is an "EU country". Also, traders may be subject to income tax in Gibraltar - I suggest people who are...
    Post by: H2O, Nov 20, 2020 in forum: Taxes and Accounting
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