Recent content by random flyer

sorry points 1/3 upticking downticking fast markets

points 2/4 locals did that all day on the floor?

agreed...great thread always finding bits of info to think over...mav with regards to the numberline ....what is the main difference between rolling and resetting?

thanks mav....looking for failed a dn and bouncing off lower end of daily pivot ranges?

? for anyone...if you had a monthly a up would ignore all of the daily a dn?

a es/gold spread would be expensive isnt it from a margin perspective as no concession?

hi mav, what OR do you use for london fx 7am or 8am i always felt that fx got its busiest with the fixed income open...any thoughts?

how tough is that...you can cut off one of my fingers...modern day deadwood

no i would think darling is spot on here...they need to expand their mandate or fast become obsolete as the frequency of financial crisis is only going up

when should i start to look at this around parity?i think in 08 havnt checked the chart but got to parity and then quickly blew out again ie plat got its prem back over gold....but sentiment/charts seem a little diff this time...any thoughts?

manufacturing?????.......mmmm what manufacturing? mining,banks real estate thats it mate cost of living is getting expensive in syd cant see how one would manage without at least 60-70k p.a half of that would straight away go in mortgage/rent...how does this compare with london/nyc by the way...

so i really have to ring the chicago brokers then....no intoducing broker right?like a dorman or penson?ideally i would like a smaller broker who would in another era been a major clearer for locals on the floor so would understand the spreaders margin needs...thanks bone...like reading yr posts

could anyone tell me the best platform for spreads what im after is something that is realtime margining at the moment when i want to do a same crop corn spread im margined per leg the intra day margin in this case 500 per leg a crappy platform but ive been lazy but as i want to move more into...

i like to look occasionally over cot data and what i have noticed is how consistently wrong large and to a lesser degree small spec are...now i dont know maybe large specs are laying off in the bond their exposure to cds cdo junk whatever...but these guys from the raw cot data are hopeless...