First dabble in stocks at 16, then there was the tech bubble and it was "not terribly difficult to make money in the securities business" to quote...
Regarding Trump, Democrats don't have a credible/strong enough candidate to compete with. Bit of war-mongering or stoking in the fire a bit like...
bid/ask spreads are a function of many things, size of market, time of day/week, outside announcements impending, volatility in more general terms...
Sigma, to add what bone said, spreads are also great in as far as you can create new spread positions by trading spread combinations. Suppose...
While I am not familiar with the energy complex, in the agri-space, spreads are mainly fundamental but can also be sometimes technical. Technical...
Also depends on strategy. Some spreads for example can move very slowly, so you might be in a trade for weeks, even months while it unfolds.
In my eyes, gold is a funny one. It can serve as hedge when equities crash/get sold off for a few months. I looked at the past 8 downturns and...
@pela78 in your initial post you wrote "It is not, and never has been or ever will be a good idea to tell people when to buy or sell, because...
In a back-test setting, edge is how far away a strategy's P&L has been from randomness (after all transaction costs are taken into account), i.e....
I got the SOFR contract now. Was the wording of the rules that confused the heck out of me, hence my stupid question. Sorry. Liquidity is still...
I agree with what you're saying. Sorry for not being clearer in my previous post. What I was referring to was this: the SOFR contract is backward...
Hi bone, thanks for opening this thread. Also thanks for the link to the CME document on spreading the 3m SOFR vs ED. If I am going the wording...
UK here
Thanks! Strange thing I noticed looking at SOFR/ED spreads on Reuters. The inter-contract spreads had the same expiries (Z/Z, H/H, etc). But SOFR...
my account reads: current cash balance + open trade equity = total equity = margin excess + initial margin requirement
Trading US time zone from Europe. CME halts trading between 10 and 11pm local time. Peak volume afternoon, then tailing off into early evening....
Hi Spreadprofessor, do you think it is too early to get one's feet wet spreading Eurodollars against SOFR? Volume is still thin but picking up....
Be sure to read the contract specification back to front. It tells you the tick size, the margin requirements (which helps you gauge the USD risk...
1% of $10k = $100, depending on the underlying, the lot size and holding period one can calculate a daily, weekly etc VaR. $100 can be 10 lots a...
Keep in mind that if you have a losing streak your percentage will translate into a smaller notional amount. If you say 1% is too risky, what...
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