I don't know of a financially-cleared player in the forward term markets that hasn't gotten caught up in the turbulence. I've seen heat rates gap...
Average would be generous.
Tao - Look before you leap. Eurex electronic options are very robust - especially equity index products. Capital market products get decent,...
The Euribor is a ridiculous trade if you're trying to get more than 50 lots outright and you're not a spread trader - the Liffe spread algorithm...
What happens when you sell at 1130 and the market trades immediately to 1132, 1133, 1135? I think you'll find that nearly all of the time trades...
Trading Technologies: pompous jerks who don't return phone calls and come off like Paris Hilton in the Ozark Mountains. Can't stand to deal with...
Only time will tell. Eurex has 10,000 screens worldwide, so I would guess that the market will probably be deeper that the CBOT would like to...
You're not going to get a decent rate from anybody if you're going to deposit a minimal amount of capital with them, and use them 'once in a...
Usually it's bassackwards. Typically you're a very good and consistent trader, and people won't leave you alone throwing money at you. Gotta...
For a man who supported the campaign finance reform movement I say - trade more yen.
CBOT and Merc interest rates and New York cash Treasuries are closed Tuesday. Liffe and Eurex interest rates are open. The difference...
I've been using a bond pit squawk for five years. Well, now it's a ten year note pit squawk. Since 80% of the volume is now done on the screen,...
If you insist on getting in with a 'Large Investment Bank', then you will have to get an MBA or another advanced degree from a top-five American...
I was in a very bad situation as well... a Chicago Area prop futures firm that paid my split as an employee of the firm. Got a regular salary and...
I don't think that's a necessarily bad rate you're getting right now. Especially if you are carrying positions overnight.
Maybe you're getting some of the trickle-down effect from their relationships with their primary customers - hedge funds.
Foreplay before entry. Usually.
Nobody can 'see' stops. But it is no secret at all that stops are put in likely and predictable places, and that some big traders routinely press...
Thank, nononononosense. We use Refco. Among others.
I trade a whole lotta A/C/E, Globex, Eurex, and Liffe. Member/Seat Holder/registered trader in all. I know that Eurex has an older system... but...
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