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I don't know, obviously, cause I am a quant monkey. However, if I had to guess it would be either one of The lower tier corporate debt markets and stuff right above the investment grade threshold. Those guys have pretty shaky business to begin with and will drop like flies once they can't...

First of all, the multiplier for minis is 50, so it's 20k * 2500 * 50 = 2.5 billion :D Second of all, what the f*ck does margin has to do with it if you are looking at notional value? Finally, 20k contracts is not that unusual, you can look at tick data and see that you get these volume spikes...

I think there is an income threshold of some sort, like 85k.

I think you guys are still fighting the previous war. It might be news to you, but the Allies have won and the Germans have lost. On a serious note, this time around, the leverage in the system is hidden elsewhere. Citibank CDS is higher than it was 2 weeks ago, at 145 vs 55 but nowhere near...

Well, let's be honest, all this article shows is that Simon Powell at Jefferies does not understand that he's not qualified to draw any conclusions from the data. No surprise there. I would venture that Dunning-Kruger is even more common in sell-side strategists than it is on Elite Trader, a...

pd.read_csv('a.csv').join(pd.read_csv('b.csv')).to_csv('c.csv', index=False, header=False)

-- you are a gambler! -- no, I am a local! I provide liquidity, for fucks sake! Which one is the optioncoach?

There is a rough arbitrage between toilet paper and the newspapers.

Are you getting involved in any of the bright red spots in fixed income? Like the forward-forward in long/ultralong, for example or bond basis.

What is/are your strike(s)?

You really think that anything he said is so secret, serious and important that his account was deleted? My hypothesis is that the guy decided that he’s a genius trader and he does not want to share his deep insights - so he deleted his account. Or someone on WSB was extremely butt hurt and...

Pre-hours circuit breaker is 5%. However, during the regular trading hours it’s first 7% and then 13%. Also, even if trading is halted, OCC honors option assignments as far as I remember.

A spanking, of course :D

When I just came to the US as a horny teenager, I could never figure out why being fucked is a bad thing.

In a good way? Cause futures are limit-down

Is it your own DMA setup or are you running 3-rd party? Do you own or lease an exchange membership? Do you already work with a broker for clearing? Etc etc.

Give a new, disgusting meaning to the concept of jelly rolls, don’t it? :D

I am long the wings :)