Recent content by trendtrader9

Hi, yes I noticed that too - particulary on the 28th when the eurostox close print was way up above 50 from the last bar price at 3443. Is there a closing auction ? :confused:

fat finger/ stops ? or was it corporate news ? thanks in advance

:) tx for reply mkt answered question pretty quickly too

being a relative newbie to the bund - does it tend to die a death during the August holiday season ? Since the 19th July seems to have been pretty rangebound (maybe volatility blown itself out since bombs?) Any views from seasoned bond traders much appreciated

yep, shorting a stong creeper strong trend is a bold move :eek: FTSE's key level recently seemed to be 50% retrace of bear mkt drop - maybe the same for Dax ie 5170 area ? Although FTSE broke through it..... 500 point leg up to 4640 area - so maybe another 500 on this puts it above 5000 ?

was that news or stop related anyone ? thanks

on the weeklies, it looks as if it is going parabolic - 130 ? on the dailies think it has become to obvious on buying the dips ie too many people long 2nd half of weds and yest looks like the big shake out to clear the air And the daily bar pattern for yest (thurs) looks like it has...

2.4 mill contracts in bund , 110 tick range, a record for quite a while ?

probably don't want to work an order if it is trading 84-85 and have 10k to buy , they may pay up 90 for 10k, with avg of say 87.5. If mkt is jumpy and they just bid 85 for 10,000, taking 1000 at 85 say, they will move mkt up a few and end up paying more in the end, so it gives them...

and again 85 to 80 at 16.07 local makes the indexes look very boring

Is this buy the rumour, sell the fact so to spk ? Mkt worrying itself down to a "No" vote in advance - is the world short already ? :confused:

chart of the sorry state of Dax volatility http://de.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=^VDAX&t=2y&l=on&z=l&q=b&c= :(

No - but also interested in those that do. I've been looking into it for trades off the 30/60min and daily charts. Don't have the balls for overnight futures positions, but for 2-7 day trades off bigger time frames it seems like a good way of participating with a known downside. With a...