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    Trading with Market Profile

    The markets I trade are heavily influenced by the POC. In fact it's a pretty good trade risk/reward wise if a 5 min. bar starts touching the POC and then the next 5 min bar breaks away from the farthest out point of the first 5 min bar - use two ticks away if you want a really safe trade. I...
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    Economy, the Fed, Gold Rush..

    US 2000 Fiscal Debt Issue - under 10B US 2001 Fiscal Debt Issue- 400+B US 2002 Fiscal Debt Issue - 600B est. (Without a war in Iraq calculated in.) Total Debt - 6.2T So total debt increases by 10% in 24 mo.'s & the market hasn't budged to price in an increased supply...
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    Bond Options OI

    Thanks FX, If anyone else is interested here's another link to download the file: http://www.eurexchange.com/index2.html?eh&6&2&entrancehall/publications_brochures_en.html
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    Bond Options OI

    I've been following option OI for the Tsy. market the last couple weeks and I've noticed a couple interesting things but am not really sure how to interpret them. First of all there were large OI positions friday-Jan 24 for 5's, 10,'s and 30's. on option expiration day. It seemed that the...
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    Economy, the Fed, Gold Rush..

    This is a very weakly written article. His Net foreign Investments graph may be right but I just went to the BEA website & looked at Table 1 & Table 6 and their numbers do not line up with that graphs at all. I was just looking at securities - Tsy.'s, Bonds & Stocks usually the most liquid...
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    Time to short Euro ?

    The website prudentbear.com goes on & on about the dollar weakness. Some points are interesting though.
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    Haven't TN/TB changed for few minutes

    Looks like ZN had a 16 to 11 point move 10 - 10:15 to me. No range at all?
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    Trading Treasury Bonds

    by Courtney Smith I have the book and it seems like a pretty good intro of spreads. However, he doesn't go specifically into yield curve spreads but does cover cost of carry spreads, correlation analysis etc. A whole chapter specifically on interest rate spreads, plus there is some info. on...
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    Trading with Market Profile

    Angel try this: http://www.zapfutures.com/archives/daltarch.htm The last 15 minutes is very good.
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    Economic News Sources

    Market News International for fixed income, economic, or currency data. They'll give you a free 30 day trial.
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    Best way to start trading Futures?

    Try the $85 esignal 1st 30 days free. Get volume, alerts, Delayed data vs. Sierra it seems to offer a little more value though not the bottom line cheapest.
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    The market is whispering something...

    Well I'm not too confident in my analysis but I would like to mention the following: Dec Eurodollars - 98120 or implying very little change by Fed. Sept Fed Funds - 98690 implying very little change by Fed Long bonds - high correlation to crude Euro especially & Yen rallying vs. US$ CPI...
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    Is the TNotes market allright?

    Notes moves in 1/2 32's bonds are full points. Bonds also have a higher margin. Impt. if you're new, on a budget or want to keep a tight reign on losses.
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    Is the TNotes market allright?

    How often does one have to be able to calculate cheapest to deliver to compete?
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    Electonic trade surpassing pit volume?

    Both the CME & CBOT post volume. Thanks josbarr for pointing it out on another post.
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    IB Tracing Ip Address

    The way I read GAAR is it's in regards to Cndn. co.'s. An offshore co. appears to be outside the mandate of GAAR.
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    IB Tracing Ip Address

    I'm not a lawyer or accountant but I'm having a hard time realizing the ramifications of your statements. Could it be that there's a way to differentiate between the profitability of a corp. & the management? What I'm thinking is have everything in a co.'s name and only the distributions...
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    IB Tracing Ip Address

    i don't have any definitive answers but are you sure you need a license in Canada for an offshore fund? If it's offshore Cnd. securities is not involved. Also, if the fund is offshore you would only pay tax on the income you're bringing back into Canada right? If the HQ of the fund is...
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    bloomberg terminal- worth the $$$ ??

    Patient responded well to the treatment. Negotiations start next week.
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    bloomberg terminal- worth the $$$ ??

    T1 - preferred method of delivery. their negotiated rate roughly 1/4 of what local telco would charge. I haven't got my package of info. yet so I don't have all configuration info. Real question here is how do I get a FCM to 'soft dollar' some expenses. I'd like to have some idea as to...
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