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The Petro Yuan is pure fantasy. Never happen as long as the Communist Party apparatchik continues to devalue the Yuan through constant dollar pegging. The reality is that all real players in the hydrocarbons market still value (price) their exports in US dollars. And the Arabs insist on...

In the 60's and 70's Japan was the world's low cost manufacturer. But there is a big difference between the Japanese and the Chinese. Japan also has a traditionally very deep native engineering and development culture. I don't see anything close to that in China. It's become a labor and...

Almost as obnoxious as the idea of universal basic income in modern Western societies.

I'm hardly the first person to suggest that the 3 decade period of crazy Chinese acceleration is coming to a gradual close. They have established themselves as the world's low cost manufacturer but in terms of true legitimate IP development of genuine Chinese origin they are far behind. The...

The move to natural gas fired generation is of course purely economic. Exelon wanted to shut down Quad Cities Nuclear Power Plant and switch that generation over to Natural Gas. The Illinois legislature and governor has passed subsidies for the Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station in 2016...

Looks like Crude Oil has found it's footing in concert with a firmer equity market.

If you had ever stood in an interest rate futures pit of consequence (5s, 10s, 30s, GE) you'd know that some floor broker stepping out and buying a 5 lot from some local standing near the bottom of the pit would never have registered. Zero fucks given. Most of those brokers are bidding and...

NP. The purpose of the thread was to discuss a brief, high intensity workout at home without equipment. 15 minutes of rigorous military style calisthenics would certainly qualify. I wanted to mention the kettle bell as a viable option because you could actually accomplish a great deal with...

No not at all. You have no way of knowing the purpose or motives behind a large order. Could be from a portfolio or commercial hedger just as easily as a big speculator. Could be from an arbitrageur spreading futures against the cash or physical markets. Most large orders are done through...

I can't tell you how many times I've personally seen mega sized bids or offers get filled. Brokers get paid on a per contract basis. Brokers get paid on fills, not on placed and cancelled orders. If they see size, they will shop it around to their whale clients. I've seen 10,000 lots trade...

I hear what you are saying. Kettlebells are cool because the swinging momentum decompresses your back and your joints. Momentum is working in your favor. Oddly enough, with the kettlebell swing done with proper technique and form it's your hips, your ass, and your legs that are doing most of...

The only part of the DOM worth watching is the best bid and the best offer and what actually trades. You'll find better risk/reward skews in other trading methodologies IMO. For example, try to find out the correlated factors that are moving the market you're interested in. HINT: it's not the...

My concern with dieting strictly based upon daily caloric intake as the sole target would be the loss of lean muscle mass. Which of course gets us back to a protein-oriented diet and resistance training.

It’s one of those things that you truly have to try in order to appreciate. Some of the earliest westerners to use them were the British SAS and US Special Forces. They had done some joint exercises with Spetsnaz (Russian Special Forces) in the early 90’s and noticed how much better shape they...

Kettlebells count as equipment - but they're cheap, you only need a few of them, and they take up very little room in terms of storage. In fact, my trainer had me start out with just one kettlebell: a 35 pounder. You'll need a safe space free from pets and kids for the swing workout. It's...

You should also message investing.com and ask them about their source of information. I am not personally a Gold trader per se; I have spread it with other highly correlated products as part of an inter market spread trade from time to time. I do have a former client who currently trades Gold...

Use whatever tools you can find that make the most sense to you and your own personal cognitive construct. The secret is that there is no secret. The holy grail is that there is no holy grail. If it's MA - wonderful. If it's an oscillator - charming. If it's a Bloomberg news feed - good on...

As I understand it, (again, I am no securities lawyer) - the SEC's Regulation NMS (promulgated in 2005) and the SIPs processing is only for the equity security markets. NBBO designations are not allocated to regulated futures contracts. In other words, it would take a change in federal statute...

Well, according to the press release above, Small Exchange "aspires to be a futures and foreign exchange trading platform for retail traders". And I cannot see how the CFTC or the NFA would be accommodating to selling retail futures order flow. Note that CME has not in the past and does not...

It's a fool's errand. Even when I see an established futures exchange duplicate another exchange's product it inevitably fails. Even if they subsidized market makers, the bid-ask will be wider than the existing exchange product bid-ask spreads. In essence, the proposition to the retail trader...