30% of my clients are interest rate scalpers and flat-price directional traders who want to learn how to correctly spread trade. I have been...
YOR: If you only quote one leg when working a spread, you will eliminate the possibility of getting double fills. Also, set your slop to 1 or...
1. Not necessarily. 2. Acceleration rates and currency values of the comparative moves will vary widely. 3. On a volatility-adjusted basis,...
MandelBrautwurst makes a lucid and spot-on arguement. Game, set, and match.
Sorry - TUAZ9-(FVAZ9*2.65)+TYAZ9 Buy the TuF and Sell the FiT to Buy the Butterfly Puppies are distracting.
CBOT 2-5-10 Fly Construction, based upon a 2 year timeframe correlation study from daily closing marks: Based on contract value: 1:3:1 Based...
The great thing about STIRs like the Eurodollars and Euribor is that you can build your own market - just choose your duration and convexity risk...
The majority of my clients were/are yield curve traders who are looking to transition away from the curve trade or are searching for an additional...
Many OTC financially-cleared products are suffering from liquidity issues - many of the bank desks and hedge funds that participated in the...
Lethn: This is a game forum. All I can say is that I have nine traders under contract, and to a person they will all give positive reviews...
Now that quip made my day!
Griggs: There are members here who are certainly more knowledgeable about Nat Gas fundamentals than myself. I have in the past traded the ICE...
Wow - how the hell have I managed to make money 17 consecutive years in a row? Random luck I guess.
I used to spread the Bobl against the Euribor mid-curve as well 'back in the day'. In many ways, I liked the spread better with the Bobl. If...
One of my clients overseas uses it with good effect, but the U.S. clients have generally been leary of it - one West Coast client cites stability...
Get on the Nymex website and find a broker that owns a seat - a direct clearing member. Having said that, and having traded ClearPort and ICE...
How about both long and short. (spoken like a true spread trader)
I clear RCG and have had only positive experiences with them.
It is indeed very difficult to sort through the posers in search of honest intellectual interaction with like-minded professional traders. There...
No way on God's green earth that Optiver is manipulating the markets in the way suggested in this thread to the point that they can influence the...
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