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are y'all going to start trading these new longer duration Bonds? They start January 11th. (from CME website) Member Fees Waived Through June 30, 2010, fees for Ultra T-Bond futures are waived for all Type 1 (Individual), Type 2 (Equity), Type 3 (Trading) and Type 4 (Electronic Corporate)...

those of you on this board know that I have been trading the futures/cash for a while (prop in Chicago) and am ready to go out on my own but don't have enough capital to trade the size I want. That being said I do have some capital to contribute and am looking for someone to back me/partner...

Obama and R Emanuel will not F with traders (or Goldman) he is from Chicago, the CME Group will not let this go through. Simple as that. Talking smack about the administration on CNBC will not help his cause.

ten yr keeps dipping it's toe past 3.50 and coming back you know you wanna run at 3.75 come on cash and ZN! ZB likes to run follow son!

nice! bought TBT lower 43 dollar area gonna ride this sucker.

3.25% tens and 4% 30 years? Might wait for irrational move to 124-128 to buy TBT this is Pimco pushing till people puke...

I am selling EVERYTHING in my equity account tomorrow morning and buying TBT tomorrow fu%k this bull$hit of spooz going up and the long end going up. Fed buybacks they are buying Mortgage paper and not long paper. Obama is printing so much money when interest rates are 8% for a 30 yr fixed in...

prop trading the futures and cash markets are totally different. here in Chicago most futures firms give you 50% to start which is the norm but you would not be able to trade the size you do on your own. Trading 50 lots plus at futures firms who take 50% to start with then the more you make...

10's getting to upper part of range 3.25 to 4%. right now about 3.30 - bondo getting close to 4% we'll see how far they can push it.

pros in Chicago use Advantage. best trading hands down TT best charting CQG why not use CQG trader to keep costs down free platform = P.O.S. you know that you gotta pay to play.

fed says they cancel coupon pass, then wait they delay it by 20 minutes f#cking a$$holes ruined my day. WTF is going on?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

could someone who is more intelligent than me explain why with supply the next couple of days and the spooz rallying back to the morning high they need so many bonds no retracement and just bid so f#cking gay. Every time I added to a short winner just got pounded badly. Then as spooz rally...

HOW THE F#CK DO YOU TRADE THIS $HIT? It goes past my level of pain almost everyday yesterday I sold two ticks from the high and bought one tick off the low and still lost $ in the Cash. It does not even trade bids and offers 3 bid then 7 bid then at 3 then 5 bid what the F#CK is going on with...

like the talking heads song cross eyed and painless. "still waiting, still waiting." for the 7 yr auction that is. spooz jam up to new 6-7 month highs are we sit and sit. took me half an hour to make 2 ticks ha!

6 hours of chop with one irrational 10 min move with 5 yr tail then chop again this f#$cking sucks

horrible chop until 5 yr auction, 116.08-14 is getting old maybe they float it up again before auction this sucks spooz sucks everything sucks I hate algo's!

4-5 ticks no sharp drop last two days were sharp! looks like a $hit chop teh rest of the day get some and go home. spooz breaking

fixed income choppy but if ZN gets over 13.5 look out. spooz choppy after yesterday no more news probably a range trade today

wow got short yesterday and lost $ money at the wrong time today tried to buy it damn this is crazy they trade 52K ZN in 8 minutes what the F!? Next 4 mins 27K traded that is insane almost 80K ZN trade in ten minutes!

size is back just not on the bid/offer they just click through the book so much size is trading just crazy up and down 5K-10K cars jamming all over the place!