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Something I like to remember from time to time is the 4 stages of progression in learning & application. Unconscious Ignorance - you don't know anything, and what's worse is you aren't aware of this fact. Conscious Ignorance - you found out you don't know anything. Conscious...

update if you are interested. April 8th 2009 ... North American Corporate CDS are now standardized as either trading 100,500 bps upfront (SNAC) Europe followed sometime last month I want to say (STEC) next steps are for central clearinghouse.

I do. but I am salaried, and am not trading my own money. I'd say it's best to find a job in the field and watch pro's do it and practice with some of your disposable income. Try this for at least a couple years before you go bet the farm. Better probably to ask what % to people make...

A lot of the people here seems to day trade. Are there any buy/sell-and-hold folks here...meaning you roll at least once or twice on a single position?

I'm not quite sure what you mean but... If you want to trade 10-years and you don't want more than 2:1 leverage overnight you need at least 50K just to hold 1 contract and abide by your rules.

128 is gloomiest outlook, 122 is best case scenario. Not my viewpoint, but traders at my firm. Again for early fall - early winter time frame. Im very bearish on anything U.S. prints but I am going to stay away from the steamroller until long term fundamentals come to forefront again.

Vanilla swaps include implied 3M reset rates. Best not to go past 2 year strip when comparing to swaps, as liquidity drops off.

Institutional investors are rolling their positions. This normally happens 2-3 weeks before expiry. There is no exact timing. It's best to roll as the market rolls, Type TYU9 CMDTY GP <GO> and you can see that it conveniently shows roll volume vs time. We have a specific time we might want...

Folks at my firm are betting 122 - 128