Saw reactions to a good old-fashioned squeeze from yesterday afternoon to this morning. The cheapest-to-deliver Ten-year note against the June...
He does now, but was a huge trader in the Ten year futures pit at the CBOT and huge on the screen when the business originally started to go...
That bid was there starting this morning. Brumfield a seller down to 01, was about to offer 1000 at 01 in the pit, then boom 1 bid 10,000, at one...
Or if you have huge cajones like Hardy Brumfield get long 7,000 notes in the pit from 111-06.5 to 111-10 right before a huge ten-year auction and...
Hit the nail right on the head, and don't forget about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Did you read the Paul Volcker article in the Washington Post...
It seemed like at some point the Treasury was going to reissue the 30-year regardless because of the "all-out" denial type rhetoric that John Snow...
Yes. Go to www.bondsquawk.com.
Bring it on baby. As for surpluses, those were simply a function of our bubble economy in the late 90's and excessive tax collections which no...
Just so you know the Bonds are only closed on the electronic between 4pm and 7pm every day, you read the hours wrong. Thus, they are open 21...
Sorry didn't explain the 2:1 NOB. Could be interesting next week with inflationary data. Couple locals were talking to Rick Santelli last...
Big paper seller in the pit in the last minute (sold 2000) yesterday in the T-Notes, a big Japanese account. Locals bought it from him down at...
they have a website?
Thats because the customers used the floor today. Ten year note was a thousand up in the pit, half a tick wide. All of the liquidity on Eurex US...
10 years led the way down before the FOMC minutes, big upstairs local, won't name names, but he is the brother of someone that is kind of big at...
Wow, looks like the year is over for the interest rate markets. Pretty non-eventful after the FOMC. Volatility came off in the ten year at least...
Another volatile day in treasuries. Good rally early this morning only to see everything fall apart into the afternoon. Big profit taking again...
Looks like the curve flattener is back on again. Pretty good action today with the dollar doing better and unwind of that ten year/bund spread...
And those same days the CBOT traded about 2.4 million ten years (in one session between pit and screen) and almost a million five years. I think...
The floor guys (who trade the screen too) have been consistently looking for slightly under on the non-farm payrolls (and successfully pushed it...
That's kind of cool with the counterparty thing on TT, only if they could show who is on the bid/offer before the trade occurs, probably will some...
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