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You can use hotkeys. You can bind keys to post limit/market orders, stop orders, stop limit orders, MIT, and even cancel orders. I have a key that will liquidate all positions, no matter what they are. You can have hotkeys to send an order with a stop attached. You can have keys for many...

I trade rate and index futures and spreads. No options, even though I have more than 100k brokerage. I did a lot of reading and studying -- options trading, market making, microstructure, quant finance, statistics, banking, finance, economics, etc. I have a degree in mathematics. I can program...

Word on the street is that BlackRock threatened to not price one of the total return ETFs because debt was likely to trade at distressed levels absent bank intervention. Solvency issues for some major players in the form of an inability to meet regulated capital requirements on the day. Pension...

Bills and notes are more sensitive to changes in interest rates and economic release data than further dated maturities. You can hedge short term rate risk by buying rate exposure further out, so you can hedge 2s with 10s. Interest rate exposure is hedged by shorting rate futures or selling...

Cross-hedged. But also quant models and VWAP. I always make sure to know what the yield curve is doing. The rates market is the most important thing to know.

Fed is 100% culpable for this and the Biden profligacy only hastened the day of reckoning. Many people have been waiting they're entire lives for this shit to finally happen. Waiting for a long ass time. Decades of easy money, ZIRP, and retarded ass housing policy across the entire western...

I think this comes down to size. How much profit is a small winner for you? How many basis points of return on your account we talking about? How often do you get 'good setups' for a trade? How long are these (and your typical) holds? Success rate on a trade?

If you just mean to look at vols of one asset to be relationally larger (smaller) than a related asset, that is common. High beta against lower beta will give you exposure to a volatility differential. Duration risk against nearer term will do the same for rate risk. For two assets to have...

Front month ZT (price not yield)

I don't know anything about options margining and clearing. But you guys are missing a couple key points here... SPAN Margin (Mark-to-Market in real-time by your FCM) Performance Bond Offsets for Correlated Products (Margin Discounts) This means that you can take opposing risks (Futures...

Honestly, and I'm not trying to be a jerk here. But, if you blew 140k 'buying options' you don't really have any business looking for more money from elsewhere to trade with. You're a failed trader. Markets are unforgiving and there's a million ways to lose. My trading isn't exactly going so...

IMO, the rally was pure bullshit and manipulation 100%. The action was in the rates market. They were sizing into duration against the front end (long the inversion trade). When the hot print came in the short end got hammered and the spread blew out. Easy money for the real pros.

Short from the open Monday (line was actually basis against hedge profits).

Pairs of what? Stocks, index futures, rates, ETFs, EM, commodities... It's surprising you ask for advice and don't even specify any details. Don't even know if it's a time spread or cross-hedged position. It could be any of a million different trades...

It's not just yen. Check PHP, THB, KRW. The PBOC yuan fix came in just under the 7 handle (Bloomberg said 450 BIPS ... lol) I have models that can trade FX but its touch and go, minute by minute stuff. Yen futures are crazy bearish. (white line is futures VWAP)

Rate differentials driving a carry trade. Yields on the US tens vs JGB tens will cause liquidation of JGB and then Kuroda vowing to protect the rate just encourages the carry. This trade is levered to the moon right now. I really wonder what happens to markets if this thing comes unhinged.

Good coverage with listed ETFs on the Eurozone beatdown...

ES just dropped 100 points from 5am eastern. Place your bets, gentlemen, place your bets.

You bullish? Seems like the bears starting to sweat.

https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/equities/international-indices/nikkei-225-dollar.html