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The brokerage firms absolutely love you guys. :D:D:D

Exactly. Uninformed talking heads like to quote Chinese US Treasury Holdings as some sort of ‘nuclear option’ leverage they have on the US. Which is total BS. If China crushes the dollar they slit their own throats. And if you take in close to half a trillion US dollars net surplus every...

Not according to the Fed. Look at the top row: Mainland China. It's possible that they re-balanced their portfolio convexity but their net holdings of US Treasury Securities did not decrease. Taiwan sold a few billion. http://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt

Russia selling net $80B in US Treasuries is nothing. Not a even a blip. The notional value of the US Treasury market that trades every day is massive - more than half a trillion dollars.

China can't really liquidate their US Sovereign Debt holdings - it would strengthen the Yuan which is what they are manipulating the markets to avoid. It is Party doctrine to maintain a weakish Yuan relative to the US dollar. And the Chinese media proclaims on occasion that the Yuan should be...

But as you have already found out, the market price action is much more 'chippy' than the way it charts.

Perhaps because 'scalping' a modern electronic market is so uncivil :rolleyes:

Well, to be fair, you were getting trolled to wretched excess in the opinions of many. Outside of the "Politics" forum that shouldn't be tolerated [and wasn't] by the Mods - especially to a Member such as yourself who contributes tangible trading related insights to the site (so rare these days...

Unless you have access to OTC order flows I would politely suggest you reconsider. Swing trading would be a more productive approach. Even taking two or three well considered trades intraday would be a better risk/reward skew than literally "scalping" that market. I have considerable...

Isn’t Browder a British Citizen so why was he even discussed ?

Whatever you choose to scalp (I wouldn’t personally recommend it but I’m biased and freely admit it) - you MUST have a very intimate knowledge of how orders are filled. In futures, for example, is your particular instrument FIFO or Pro-Rata algorithm? If it’s Pro-Rata, is there a FIFO...

Wait, wasn’t Brennan the CIA Director during the time frame that Russia was pulling all these US election shenanigans ?

From my experience, the bid/ask trades out TOO FAST in order to effectively buy bids and sell offers with a chance to scratch in big, liquid names in electronic markets. And open outcry these days is only viable with certain less liquid markets and it would be a closed boy’s club if it were...

And Lisa Page is looking for an immunity deal from Congress because she has much more to say about this, the Obama administration, and Strzok. Stay tuned...

Oh good grief man... your BM’s must be an adventure :wtf:

Huh, George Will a playa ? That is the most interesting thing I’ve read on this board in a while.

Scalping, in the historical sense of the term as it was originally coined in the pits, is essentially buying bids and selling offers. Experienced scalpers could, on occasion, take a few (or more) tics out of a trade but that was the exception and not the norm. I started out scalping 30 Year...

Lisa Page is about to unleash the Kraken on Mr. Strzok.

Lisa Page is about to unleash the Kraken. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned...

Some members of Congress are saying that in private testimony today Lisa Page apparently contradicted quite a bit of Peter Strzok’s private and public testimony. She’s looking for an immunity deal and some Congressional Republicans are now looking at deposing the Annointed One. Ms. Page says...