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This is OUTRAGEOUS!!!!! Louis, don´t do this! But I guess, your investors blackmailed you with redemptions, hum? I am increasing instead to 3/44 !!!!! Like SAC Capital and Renaissance - before they closed it to new outside investors.

Hum, seems the quant community is still alive and kicking. I thought the GFC and subsequent credit crisis, loan crisis, level 3 crisis, CDO, CLO, CMBS crisis had decimated you guys. Maybe I will be visiting the event, too, and ask some nasty questions about herd behavior. Usually, you all seem...

How the Biggest E-Mini Futures Trade All Year Powered Last Week’s Rally http://www.wsj.com/articles/unraveling-the-mystery-of-last-weeks-massive-e-mini-futures-trade-1481560990 You must really laugh about Wall Street Journal rookie "journalists"....LOL!

What would we do without base effects, Martinghoul? Be trapped in deflation? :=)

Yep, fellows, the latest monthly Bundesbank report has a nasty surprise for Mario Draghi and his gang: http://www.bundesbank.de/Navigation/EN/Publications/Reports/Monthly_reports/monthly_reports.html And for all fans of High FRequency Trading, here is a nice paper from Bundesbank how HFT is...

Why would you that? In order to learn that your algo is not working anymore after 60 days and rewrite everything from scratch? :=) Don´t waste your money.

I thought, you have a serious question...ask me next time when you trade 500 lots or more per ticket - like me ;=)

I guess you observed the sell off in HY. Some nice opportunities out there for some "robust" paper - of course "solid stuff".

Martinghoul, I know you are a pro. How´s trading/investing going these days?

So, the Wall Street braniacs throw other people´s monies out of the window because they "EXPECT" lower inflation going forward. We all understand that. That´s what these clowns are paid for: burning other people´s monies. Meanwhile there is nothing close to "risk premia" in bond markets...

Yep, gentlemen and gentle women, US bond money managers must have lost their mind. US core inflation is running at 2,3% and "Chicken Yellen" (yep, that´s how Tier1 trading desks are calling her) gets mega dovish at the last meeting. The reason is clear: everybody is afraid of China´s...

Looking for the next 1200 pip trade? Go Long GBP/NZD and GBP/AUD...

http://news.forexlive.com/!/sp-downgrade-china-outlook-to-negative-from-stable-20160331 It has started....finally....!!!!

You most probably read about the YUAN devaluation in recent days. Taking a broader picture at WHY THE FED central bankers are stupid BEYOND INFINITY. I will present some charts to think about it:

So, anybody here buying Sep S&P 500 puts? Pretty cheaply priced. Reminds me of Forrest Gump and the chocolate box: "My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." About time to rock´n rolla! GT+GT

PM keen to move quickly on setting up in/out poll among British voters on EU membership to avoid clash with French and German elections http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/11/david-cameron-european-union-referendum PLease leave the EU!!!! Maybe we can finally have some banks that...

To all of the readers who never placed a 1000 lot order in Mini S&P´s AND actually executed such an order size: do it yourself (if you have the margin account size I have ;=) and see what happens. Actually, spoofing is the easiest manipulation method around because there are other WANNABE algos...

Yeah, you read this correctly: Volkswagen - the largest German car manufacturer - is giving its employees a 3,4% rise in salaries. http://europe.autonews.com/article/20150305/ANE/150309900/vws-german-workers-get-3-wage-increase And uncle Draghi is starting QE today! LOL! ROFL! That´s just...

http://news.forexlive.com/!/ecb-said-to-urge-greek-banks-to-cut-greek-government-debt-holdings-if-talks-break-down-20150219 Bye, bye, Greece!