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    What is wrong with the Treasury Market?

    I find this info great, keep it coming. I know goldmans said 11.5 was a big level yesterday, perhaps they were loading up.
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    What is wrong with the Treasury Market?

    odds of an 8000 clip going through are very low, and the software he uses removes the bid on any partial fill, it's a tried and tested strategy begun in the german bonds, over the long run it makes far more than it loses. Here's some things to consider today... "The 10yr note is sitting...
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    Good Trading Quotable Quotes

    "It's a fine line between bravery and stupidity" anon
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    FTSE meltdown?

    http://news.ft.com/cms/s/535b63a8-87c8-11da-8762-0000779e2340.html With Nikkei down 2.94% (-464.77) after its first fall yesterday and yahoo and intel both off 8% are we due for a little FTSE meltdown? Today's BOE's Large's article above hardly fills investors with confidence and the Bund...
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    Newbie, is this easy money?

    Thanks for that. It's not a personal recommendation but as you say I don't fancy writing options before I understand a lot more, although the risk looks tolerable relative to my outright positions over that figure.
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    Newbie, is this easy money?

    I trade outright futures of german and american treasuries but woud like to understand options more. I keep getting recommended the non farm payroll volatility option trade. "Sell volatility with a straddle in the front month serial option contract (TYG6) on Thursday's close and cover...
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    Refco Australia- now a dodo?

    I'm pretty sure it closed before the refco scandal, no one was trading much size down there and they had endless issues with connection speed
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    Morgan fires 4 after strip club visit

    In london metro newspaper today "Female staff yesterday filed an £800 million sex discrimination case against investment bank dresdner kleinwort wasserstein. They claim women in dresdner's offices are barred from top jobs, do not receive the same pay as male colleagues and are subjected to...
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    What are your computer post-it notes?

    The lamborghini order hotline
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    Refco Trading Services new name?

    I do and I want to keep pro, things like rolling depthtrade contracts takes 2 clicks, on TT it's a pain in the arse, also right click trading on TT executes on the button upclick whereas on pro it is on the downclick. There's loads of little advantages and it's like £500 a month cheaper basic...
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    Stats for successful trader in prop ?

    I'd say that was a fair stat for our office (trading futures) At the extreme the big boys will play with 2000 contracts a time for trades lasting a matter of minutes or seconds. The top guys in various london company prop shops can consistently make £100k a month after costs - but that's...
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    WTF! Why Bund Jump 30 Pts On Thurs AM?

    That was the german state CPI for the most heavily weighted region (-0.5%) released just after IFO, can't remember which it was offhand, Hesse or Baden Wuttenburg but this trading floor was lifting at market. Certainly no inflation and a hike coming... Actually someone said it was the about...
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    WTF! Why Bund Jump 30 Pts On Thurs AM?

    1.Take a look at an hourly candle bund chart, 34 was a big technical level, going past that defined the "W" double bottom. 2.All the stops hit would have been placed there on Friday 18th after Trichet came out with his first "we will augment rates" comment which sent the bund into freefall...
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    How many have had this happen?

    Ridicule yourself a little, tell them you're a professional market gambler, a have a go hero, with a wink. Then they say, "well I'm sure there's more to it than that seeing as you've been doing it for x years and seem to be doing very well for yourself" They'll be impressed with the modesty...
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    The Fall of Refco Trading Services

    RTS london (macfutures) or whoever we are now, marathon, is at present still going strong with trading unaffected by any of this. Sure some people left but not a lot. TT are in talks with the owner about reinstating anyway, then it will be price war time, good luck to the little firms :D
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    Refco Trading Services new name?

    Marathon - it's been along running dispute :D will RTS get TT back is what we all want to know
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    How I made 500 PIP

    Reminds me of Dr Nick Riviera, the dubiously qualified doctor off the Simpsons "Hallo Everybody!" :p <img src="http://www.worldwide-web.com/JeffreyBabad/Simpsons/Nick/nick.jpg">
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    How I made 500 PIP

    Hallo! I back - I spam 10 trader forum today make lots of sucker pay me to account. I make excellently on spam :D
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    Today's ECB Decision

    Well the idea was right but made a right pigs ear of it!
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    Today's ECB Decision

    No but still hangin out for a dubai prop office, hate london winters
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