Recent content by fortunatti

To clarify, positions held in MF Global accounts were transferred to alternate clearing firms. Account equity was left with the MF Global Bankruptcy Trustee. Meanwhile, customers were then forced to re-margin positions with newly assigned clearing firms in order to maintain existing positions...

Additionally, locals are still providing liquidity on the spreads - especially in the less liquid deferred months - giving a tick or so better than the screen and/or all one price on the fill is convenient for some participants. Also, the ag markets still have organizations who price physical...

Why don't we ban marijuana and coca farming? Oh wait...

I also heard the Greeks are trying to recruit Mugabe as treasurer to help introduce the "New Drachma."

I've never seen what the Chinese futures depth looks like, but volume and open interest are a bit deceiving...their contracts (I believe) are the equivalent to about 500bu, or a very small truckload.

B/A spreads get ridiculous during and after USDA report, though Matif Milling is improving a lot in the last year or so. Matif Corn or Liffe feed wheat are out of the question... I've observed EU markets will move a little bit around the USDA report, but generally in line with the US Swaps...

Fields are wet. Planting will be late. U will be a "old crop" this year.

Dynamic exits. Hi all, after several years of being a fundamental-discretionary trader in an instutional/industrial trading environment, I decided to exploit patterns I've seen over-and-over in the charts. Coding, optimizing, and backtesting in Tradestation...after a few months I've taken...

I was using Investor R/T + IB for a few years, IRT is excellent - a bit complicated and frustrating to learn at first, but extremely powerful. Started to have some very costly issues with IB - tried Tradestation and love it. All in all, IRT excellent product. Highly recommend it. Yes...

Why is the Z/H ES inverted?

Commodity values can go to zero if the owner has to pay to take someone else to take it off their hands... UK gas has gone negative in the past simply because it's illegal to "flare" (burn) the stuff.

Compelling bullish fundamentals in the ag space this time around...but how much of this is currency/QEII related...?

He won't mind when your model sells him stuff at full carry.