Recent content by TsunTzu

I don't disagree with risk transfer for genuine reasons, however the farmers who I have spoken too, and its not a huge number, told me they only hedge a certain % of the crop and do so at a few key times during the year. How often do you change bank, switch life insurance etc etc. The markets...

If an economic recovery depends on the back of a zero sum game then things really are bad.

I actually think this will benefit the market and will be glad to see it introduced. Yes volume will probably decline further, but a lot of algo's will be knocked out of the game, which I think will mean genuine flow will be back on the table and thus moves with more readably identifiable...

Kyte is a great option for the tax angle, but leverage is tight. You may want to look into Marex or Tower Trading who are significant presences in the prop market. PM me if you want contact details.

Best strategy in bunds, is to leave them alone. The market is dying, the party is over, the punch bowel is empty and only the drunks are left.

Yes indeed, Last month Eurex bunds traded the lowest October amount since 2000, maybe its all just a side effect of the lack of progress in Europe.

During times of heightened economic uncertainty one would expect derivative use to rise. However it is evident the opposite is occurring. Why? well I believe it is the unintended consequence of Algo trading. You could argue that its the market becoming more efficient, which could be...

Lowest October volume for six years. Eurex are quite happy to sit in their control room and watch the market be abused by algo's in breach of their own market code on a daily basis. If they don't care about market integrity, why should anybody else. Bring on the FTT, the sooner the patient...

CME is not alone. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-30/nyse-profit-falls-44-on-merger-charges-trading-decline.html It still baffles me that the exchanges haven't figured out that volumes are now falling due to the nature of business they encourage. __________________ "Success is...

Its not really a nice business is it? there is no value added, they are just as bad as the rest of us parasites leaching off somebody else.

Volume agreed. Ranges, I just checked back to 2004 and the ranges do not seem to be anything out of the normal. I'd much prefer daily ranges of the like we saw during September, October 2011. Feb 2011 saw one day of 89 ticks range with the larger number being sub 50, with somewhere in the...

I did give second hand cars a go but the volume dried up and it just didn't work out for me. Fortunately I found an internet forum discussing it and after an extended period of whining I finally got it all off my chest and feel much more relaxed about it now.

Extremely ignorant. It helped me through uni and is a corner stone of my trading.

Its Eurex FI roll-over, ECB week, NFPR week and the week when the Greek PSI needs to be resolved. I expect Bunds to be trading the same as yesterday. If after 14 years of trading you think this is a recipe for an opportunity rich day then frankly your beyond hope.

Boy thats one hell of an axe you have to grind. I am wondering if your the ghost of 'newtricks' You have way to much time on your hands now you have changed your trading method to the latest zeitgeist. Can we look forward to daily or weekly posts asking where the volume has gone...