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Most of my trading is intra day although I do take longer term positions based on my expectations for the fixed income markets.

Most of the time its who you know that gets you in the door.

Best of luck with Pimco. Only advice I can offer is to read Pimco's pm's bios. You'll see that the overwhelming path to Pimco was through an advanced degree and prior sell side experience. I can only imagine how many resumes they receive. You'll have to find a way to differentiate yourself...

Volume is definetly thinner now due to holidays/end of year.

Are you interested in trading fixed income or working for Pimco?

ZB and ZN are the symbols for the electronic contracts for bonds and notes respectively. They trade simultaneously on a/c/e.

I trade Bonds / Notes / Bunds through IB. Unfortunately, you can only trade electronic products through them. Which necessitates additional accounts for options and cash.

Like today for instance???:mad:

Take a look at Bunds on the Eurex too.

Keeps life interesting tho.

:eek: just think how lucky you were not to be short 30's on 10/31/01.

I've found that my best trades are scalps fading the trend in 10's and 30's (bonds). I try to take 1-2 ticks on a 100 lot. I've tried Auto trader with IB with mixed results. Unfortunatley, I wasn't able to get Bracket Trader to function properly.

Great analogy

I used to give my computers a few shots of JD when trading got busy but my former employer frowned on drinking on the desk.

http://www.bondweek.com/mbs+and+abs/street+mbs+pros+laugh+at+beacon+hill+mbs+primer+.asp

Take a look at Eurex products available on IB. You could catch part of the session.

Thanks for the great story. Always nice to see something with some local flavor.

Christopher???

I am near Phila. Primarily trade bond futures with some equity options for diversity.