I'm in the same boat, primarily traded notes since 2004, but made the switch to primarily trading ES in late September last year. The volatility...
Perhaps, but did you see the 30-year re-opening last week? Bid really strong with one of the highest indirects I can recall for a re-opening....
Actually the NY fed said "...will concentrate purchases in the 2- to 10-year sector of the nominal Treasury curve, although purchases will occur...
How would that work? Instead of 100 ticks per handle there'd be 32? So the value per tick would roughly triple?
Not only that, but they have one of their own handing out the TARP money. Remember the day Paulson leaked news about a RTC like facility in...
After RiceRocket's T-bond call it's dumbfounding that anyone would question his identity. The guy made the best call I've ever seen on this site...
Well that boosted the market for what, 5 seconds? That's some good bang for your (our) buck PPT.
That was when the Oct contract was limit up $10, they stopped trading in all months for 5 or 10 minutes before resuming.
Damn nice call with the $132.12!
Exactly. There used to be a non-farm derivative contract, I remember it could be as much as 30-40k off of what the median economist expectation...
lol. Post of the year as far as I'm concerned. I originally read this yesterday and it's still cracking me up.
Cheers man. Bigger than some of those dax stops? How far down were you bidding? Did you hold it the whole time or get out and pray they...
Interesting move before and after a basically inline Philly Fed number. Obviously they were punting something much worse. Anyone hear any...
Wow, just saw the charts now, what a Sunday night! Wish I was in the office but I didn't realize I had a 6-day per week job, thanks Ben! Just...
Bernanke who? Wow, this is crazy. Is this a haywire algo throwing around those 250 - 300 lots in July?
Ya, all the major wires I know of had it at 12:16. Don't think there were any I saw with 12:15. May I add, what a complete load of BS this is....
It was my second worst week of the year. The money lost wasn't what bothered me, it was more the frusturation at not being able to capitalize on...
Thanks for letting us know. On non-farm or other significant events it can be helpful to see as much of the market as possible. While those...
Actually, I just came across this post through google while searching for the exact same thing (search term was "nasdaq 100 weighting"). So to...
While they're referring to a few things there (energy, commodities) the main resource they're talking about is likely labor. Unemployment at 4.5%...
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