Anybody else short US 30 Bond

Discussion in 'Financial Futures' started by richard_m, Dec 18, 2007.

  1. emg

    emg

    i am still long ZBZ 120-25
     
    #2041     Sep 9, 2010
  2. You are in the running for the "reply to the oldest post on ET" award
     
    #2042     Sep 9, 2010
  3. I know I have been getting short for months and getting fucked and now it is hard to hold shorts they sit and sit and then the train comes you jump on board and you get railroaded the NOB is no fun either it just whips 3-4 ticks in one direction no fun if you are wrong...there is obvious liqudation in the long end they sell now with a vengence as I write this someone will come in and bid it up all day push me out and open down 20 ticks unreal size trading in this thing, 7:20 open and 8:06 25K ZN trade in 2 min bar.
     
    #2043     Sep 10, 2010
  4. exactly what I said but after getting short ten times I reversed and got long, covered costs and a little green y'all can have this piece of $hit market. FU#KING BRUTAL. Either too volatile or this crap no happy medium. waves come in and out or total chaos, I dont know anyone making good money trading curve right now except my friends who bought 125 ZB Oct puts last week.
     
    #2044     Sep 10, 2010
  5. Boy, the sell off suck and rallys suck...is there a trade anywhere? 1 thing I know is that you do not fade GS or William Gross...is the FED really gonna buy a cool trillion worth of treasuries? Guess its wait 'til next Tuesday.
     
    #2045     Sep 14, 2010
  6. The Fed is no where near out of bullets, they can establish target rates on mid-long term debt and on GSE bonds. Imagine the fed establishing a target on the 10 year of 2.5% then they could cut 25 or even 50 basis points on the 10-year whenever stocks start to fall. Trillions would flow into higher risk equities and investment. Hyperinflation would follow.
     
    #2046     Sep 14, 2010
  7. bone

    bone

    Nobody has shorted the United States of America on a long-term basis and lived to tell about it. Did Osama hang on to his short for 12 months?

    Go ahead and be the first. The capitalization for your timing might prove problematic.

    Why is it that every other market in the World waits for the U.S. ?

    Do you know why the United States pulls so much shit all the time? Because apparently they can. The U.S. can print money and the world buys it. Without demand rates wouldn't be where they are. Is the World stupid? Without the U.S. where would China be? China needs the U.S. intact and on top. China's holdings depend upon it. Europe? Red Bull is great but we need some follow-through. Do you know how exhausting it is to constantly be the big innovator? Just because the U.S. owns the IP and subcontracts out the assembly to third-world adolescents doesn't mean the parents of the adolescents gain control of the IP. China should at some point in time do something innovative and original for themselves. Without stealing it.

    I know it's terrible, and it doesn't make sense, and the macroeconomics don't add up, but please be advised that money talks and your opinion about the U.S. walks.


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    #2047     Sep 14, 2010
  8. #2048     Sep 15, 2010
  9. Short(ing) the Sep 131 straddle at 15.2% / 2'39 in size. Vol-line is nonfarm levels.
     
    #2049     Sep 15, 2010