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    carry cost for Fed Funds

    Fed Funds are the probably the worst trade ever done by people who sling 10K a clip in the options pit to get some horrible 3 month edge! trade something else!
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    Boston - Futures

    move back to chi-town the WORLD CAPITAL of Futures and Options I think Bean-town is full of Quant places. And who wants to work for a Quant place?
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    Swissy (SF)

    GOOGLE GOOGLE GOOGLE GOOGLE P.S. People that talk about how much they make don't make any money.
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    Swissy (SF)

    Foreign exchange spot trading is buying one currency with a different currency for immediate delivery, rather than for future delivery. The standard settlement timeframe for Foreign Exchange Spot trades is T+2 days, i.e., 2 days from the date of trade execution. I am amazed at some of the...
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    GHCO Still A Good Place to Work?

    One of the best to work for in Chicago along with Gelber, Transmarket and Inifinium if you are good you can trade big
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    SMW Trading

    I spoke with them about a year ago at the time they were not expanding their electronic trading group, I would try Transmarket, Gelber, Infinium or GHCO you will get great training and be able to trade bigger. P.S. The floor is dead unless you want to trade Ags or Options on Futures so take...
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    Barings Bank #2?

    I can't believe this shit happened again! After what happened in 1995 oh well some people never learn. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601010&sid=atc0YV6wpcNo&refer=news
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    Minnesota???

    same question on 10/01/07 thread called Prop firms in MN which i replied what you did above I thought the guy could read.
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    Minnesota???

    most people asking questions on this Prop firms section of this site should learn one word it is called "Google"
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    GHCO Still A Good Place to Work?

    one of the best to work for chicago
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    Nico Trading

    I had a friend that worked there they don't pay their traders shit and they are pissed if you want to leave and make money basically the options on Fed Funds is a gay over quant-ed market that sucks! The turnover is very high also.
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    The Golden Ticket to Riches

    this is how you make a lot of money http://www.cbot.com/cbot/docs/65741.pdf
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    How do the BIG BOYS trade?

    if you really want to know here is your answer believe or not this is the golden ticket that will make you a lot more than Willie Wonka anyone that doesn't know just doesn't know http://www.cbot.com/cbot/docs/65741.pdf
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    Peak6/Breakwater in Chicago

    I spoke with them a while back while I was changing firms, Breakwater that is, they have an "awesome 20/80 profit split" to start with the worst I have ever heard... p.s. the merger is happening.
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    ES daytrading and volume

    its really not an issue of volume it is an issue of supply moves and where paper needs certain levels. The last couple of days there have been a lot of buyside programs both in the mini dow and spu the down moves have been fast and untradable and then they recover with up moves that are slow...
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    Are there any Prop firms In MN??

    http://www.ghco.com/contactUs.aspx
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    CNBC vs. Bloomberg

    the chicks on CNBC are way hotter! There is a delay because they don't want to piss off the people (professional traders) who pay a lot of money to use Bloomberg and/or Reuters front end who get the numbers first.
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    trading in Chicago

    http://www.traderslog.com/proprietarytradingfirms.htm
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    So what's ECBOT written in, Visual Basic?

    this is the fifth time ECBOT has gone down in the last year, thank god when Globex takes over in January. ECBOT when down twice in 3 days when the Grains went live, there is a problem with the Implied Options on the Grains.
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    Cash Futures Spread

    futures to futures spreads don't move that much but the Cash Futures spreads have a lot of vol in them again after this summer's black box blow outs. You can even chart the yields market to market on CQG you just need to have ESpeed or Brokertech Cash feed up which is expensive but you gotta...
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