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Have you ever fallen in love of a word so deeply that you need to put it in every sentence? That's Zdreg's experience on the Transaction tax thread. At first I thought it was his way to say :"Look.I am bright and I have a new word." But now it's more he has rent it, or acquired the...

http://www.gfsnews.com/article/3464/1/Osborne_s__nods_and_winks__on_FTT_bid

Sarkozy doesn't even speak english( true )...

You must be a real idiot to put money in such broker. Mine is leveraged 40-1 on irish debt. :D

OK thanks Bone. I have a lot of "unused" money on my account so margins are not a problem. I will think about possible option positions to limit risk. I am also thinking about anticipating an early exit if the energy complex is getting too volatile( this trade would simply be a gamble in a...

Enter around now. Hold until may/June next year. It seems quite reliable historically but also lost a lot in 2008. I am scared to trade intercommodity spreads in energy because of the size of P§Ls, especially when holding for 6 months. What do you think about this spread? Are the...

We are on the same page. Option sellers and liquidity providers can get killed in Taleb-like events. I would be interested to know the number of ZB-ZN-ZF scalpers that would survive a surprise rate cut of the fed like in 2001. I have the habit of always calculating on each instrument what...

They will always.Have you ever run a simulation on a 87-like event based on the average current volatility? This would be bloody.

Wow...even Nymex got limit down, it means something like 10k$ move right? I remember the grain limit last year because I was at the CBOT at that time and the currency guy in my room was like" Hey(Me) are you ok? Damn...Everything is locked". I had no position.

October or November last year? ... News triggers closed markets(or stopped at limit)? Big trouble ahead.

Interesting... Since you apparently do some volatility arb between illiquid assets( softs, heating oil options... ), what went wrong? Is it just "the market"( and your strategy implies such losses at time ) or was it because of some random event( Some exchange rules forgotten, no liquidity...)?

Now this is getting weird... 2 weeks of losses in a row...Am I losing it? It was mostly because I closed some long term positions( Be aware FCOJ is getting really illiquid 2-3 days before first notice... Got killed on that one. ) and also because I tried some new scalping strategies... This...

If you are talking about the current EC proposal, the tax would be based on residence, not on the trading center. If I am right, an american trading with a japanese on Eurex wouldn't be taxed.So if he creates an offshore structure outside the EU, logically its transactions wouldn't be taxed...

There are only 4 places in this world : The US, The Old European Country, The bad China and The 3rd World...:D

Used to scalp it, but it had really nasty spikes that would kill a month of profits. Softs DOMs in general are hard to analyze. The electronic contract has always been illiquid. I think there is still a pit ( the OJ guy in Wall Street warriors...) but I don't know if there is much volume.

http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20111024/BLOG03/111029972

Unfortunately, there is no EliteOilWellsOwner.com to post his pic and comment about his success at trading.

By the way , Bone, since you have been in this business for a long time,what is the biggest for you? Max win or max loss day?( not expecting numbers )

The last time I tried to keep a trading journal the pages ended either blank or full of pizza and amazon order numbers...LOL.I don't know what to put in it.Thanks for the suggestion though. I have generally good discipline, but is true that I sometimes hold for too long when I am slightly...