Recent content by lucas991

It's not only the SEC, as I said, IB told me that they impose stricter rules...

It's not only the SECOND, as I said, IB told me that they impose stricter rules...

Yeah. I shorted US bonds because of the negative outlook from S&P and because I thought the markets would do well during the earnings season.

Thanks for the responses. I ended keeping the trade overnight because I hadn't seen the first message. I sold it in the morning for a good profit before bond prices started to rally so I was quite lucky.

Hi guys, I am quite new to trading, I just wanted to ask you if it would make sense for China or Japan to sells us bonds after today's news. Thanks a lot.

So yesteraday I executed all the day trades I am allowed to do since my account has less than $25,000 in equity. I also read on the SEC website than you can day trade only if the amount of day trades is 6% or less of the total trading activity. I asked IB about that and they said that they...

hey, thanks for the response. I figured out the weights using the PDAN function on bloomberg. go long on 0.59 TYs for every TU that I short. So since I need to get integers, I have to short 5 TUs and buy 3 TYs (2.95 ideally). I trade on InteractiveBrokers, I won't have to post margin for both...

Hey Guys, This is my first post here. I wanted to make a betting on the spread between long term and short term treasuries narrowing. What is the best way to do this? I wouldn't mind buying futures since, because I am pretty much hedged to overall interest rate movements, I guess the broker...