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October, November, tomayto, tomahto...

The October bean crush went parabolic, but is losing steam. Looks like a good short here. (Sell Oct meal/oil, buy Oct Beans).

Anybody hear of this guy? Looks like he's looking to make a few pennies via a newsletter service after trading for JP Morgan's STIR desk for seven years. I have no idea what it costs - looks like he's marketing his service to prop firms. I have ZERO affiliation with him or his company. Just...

I think he means payout % = broker employee share/gross commissions So, if the payout is 25%, and the guy brings in $400,000 of gross commissions to the firm in a year, he gets paid $100,000. I didn't know they still had full-service futures brokers anymore. I thought that went the way...

Here's my $0.02 (offered at a $0.02 discount): Strength in the front-month contract (particularly relative to the back months) is typically associated with a supply shortage. Strength in the back month contracts is generally associated with higher demand expectations. Taking this VERY...

Go look at the ACD thread here, and read the first few hundred pages. It "works" but you need to pay attention and put a lot of work into it.

stockcharts.com does ratio charts. [TICKER1:TICKER2], or, in your example, XOM:SLB. I don't know if they have data export - you may be able to get it in the paid version.

I don't think spreading is some magic bullet. It's just a way to increase your opportunity set. CL grinding in a range? The calendar or crack spreads might be trending nicely (or vice-versa). Same with every other liquid outright contract. There's also basis trading in the interest rate markets...

Have you tried Oanda? No lot minimums, OK spreads. One thing you have to remember is that NO ONE'S spreads will stay tight around news events or economic numbers. They need to protect themselves from getting run over. I've seen Oanda's spread go from 0.9 pips to 10 pips in the second after...

I dunno. That was a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a complete sociopath. He even gave a cameo appearance in the final scene. Not a whole lot of attention paid to the people who got ripped off - many who weren't in the "1%."

Saw it yesterday. I liked it, although it was a bit long. In a lesser director's hands it would have been awful, but Scorsesee (sp?) is a master. This is the Goodfellas of Wall Street. I laughed so hard at the whole Qualuude set-piece in Belfort's country club/car/house that my sides were...

Intriguing call Mav. I noticed that X has been sideways this month, but NYMEX steel is up $30/ton during the same period. Maybe that's showing up in X's number line?

You might want to look up Bloomberg's fingerprint login thingy and make sure you don't get slammed for "prior art." (I know it's not a phone login, but patents can be VERY broadly worded)

You may be able to get a job as an execution trader at a big asset manager and get your CFA while you're there.

Street Freak, by Jared Dillian. The guy succeeded at Lehman Brothers, even though he had a bona fide mental disorder (diagnosed after the fact). Or maybe he succeeded BECAUSE he had a mental disorder?

I'm fairly sure that Dukascopy no longer accepts U.S.-based accounts, due to restrictive CFTC rules. It's a shame, actually.

Volatility Trading, by Euan Sinclair

NoDoji has a method of trading the 9:00-9:05 bar on CL that she's been pretty open about. I've found that trading the opening bar based on a breakout of the pre-opening bar on CL (i.e. trade the bar opening at 9:00 based on the breakout of the bar ending 8:59) looks pretty good for a scalp...

If you are that confident in your system, then the combine fee really shouldn't make a difference. It's also refundable under certain circumstances. I don't do TST, because of a) time constraints and b) I'm still not 100% confident about my capability. However, if you REALLY have an edge, then...

I imagine that back month liquidity would be challenging, but I haven't looked at the data, either.