Today the front month 30yr straddle settled at 1-17, 11 ticks lower from where it opened and a % vol of less than 7, around 6.80 or something like...
Sorry to create any confusion. Stuck paying high taxes here in the US.
I believe in Gibraltar you have to have net worth of a few million to obtain status for the tax rate of 10,000 euros. As for Montreal, I was...
Pimco getting out of a few two-year longs today, they sold 20,000 (that's right, a third of the 70,000 that traded, which was heavy volume for...
In terms of hedge funds, one of the guys next to me fills Treasury futures orders for a few of them out in NYC and Greenwich and I actually asked...
Yep, was definitely thinning out slowly as the day went on, that was a surprise though with Pimco coming in with such big size on a day they knew...
PIMCO getting out of more short bonds today, about 5000 bought in the pit and another couple thousand at least on the screen. Looks like good...
Greenwich Capital calling for -40 basis points in the 2-10yr spread by mid 2006 and a 3.75% 10yr note. At that point the mortgage convexity...
Agree with Pabst, not a ton of clubs and I generally stay out of those places so can't help you there. For bars I would recommend: McFadden's on...
Seriously, why would anyone even think about trading Treasuries on PBOT. The liquid market is at the Chicago Board of Trade and will be for quite...
Agreed. I think by mid to late 2006 something will happen in terms of bond market volatility. At that point we will have been under Bernanke for...
The curve is at an interesting point right now, with some big players also jockeying around positions at the end of the year. Lately PIMCO has...
www.agtrading.com, out of chicago, tons of experience not sure of their strategy.
The edge now is much different, rather than profiting from the bid/offer during the heyday the locals are now using the floor to gather...
It is quiet, but that does not necessarily mean there aren't guys trading. Every single local in the 10yr pit has a screen that they trade on...
The financials at the CBOT include just about every trader imaginable, it is trully a room full of diverse (from an intellectual standpoint)...
And again we hold the bid with the auction being dealer driven. There has to be a small squeeze out of this issue looks like. Still a light...
Daddyeaux, Are you Cargill looking to hedge 5,000 corn futures or a huge cattle lot looking to move 1,000 live cattle futures? My guess is...
But we are bid. 7000 ten years were bought 5 minutes before the auction from 12.5 up to 14. Still holding at those levels. Dealers set-up short...
Ronin Capital is quietly huge. John Hughes and a few other CRT guys there. They don't have any pit traders at the CBOT, but are the biggest...
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