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Look at some of the other big frims on that list: Prudential bache -600 mil RBS -300 mil UBS -1400 mil

VIX coiling up again, looks like tomorrow is do-or-die for the 1095-1115 supp. area. Look at some of those OTM puts, 14pts for the 1000 strike that expires in about 18 trading days...

250k+ jobs in jeopardy going into an election... Any thoughts on how they handle the bailout? Would have to be something outside of congress considering the political environment. Maybe Obama can give a good speech. Maybe QE-BAC style, just monetize their balance sheet. Maybe the NY...

You'd have to be to take that job.

Start with something simple, like stocks or etfs,high-leverage products and derivatives will just allow you to lose faster/more spectacularly. Since what you're doing is directional there's no need to over complicate things. Using options to hedge is a losing game for most, the best hedge is...

VIX calendars(most VIX trades for that matter) are a great way to drive yourself crazy.

Similar pattern to last week, more compressed though.

reminds me of this... <iframe width="420" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8r1CZTLk-Gk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

If it ain't broke don't fix it. I remember when 500k a day was big, now 5mil is. Clearly the market has spoken. If you want a smaller $/tic go to NQ or TF

It started a long time before that. Go back to Continental Illinois and the S&L debacle. Then go back to the creation of the FDIC, FSLIC, federal reserve etc. In 1907 Morgan let Knickerbocker trust fail which caused a panic which was part of the rationale for a central bank. So you can...

I've been hearing gold is a bubble since 500/oz It's funny how the same people who couldn't spot a bubble to save their lives(tech, RE etc) are now the most vociferous about the commodity, emerging market, and treasury "bubbles".

HAH, that almost made me my spit out my coffee. Bachmann and Perry scare the hell out of me.

Go long an otm position heading into exp and you'll learn about it first hand. :) That pushing-a-rock-up-a-hill feeling is the delta heading towards 0.

... The implication is pretty clear.

The implication there is that foreigners don't deserve to compete for work. American exceptionalism died a long time ago. Right now the only things we are exceptional at are: financial engineering, exporting inflation, borrowing, creating and using instruments of death/destruction, eating, and...

where are these perfect arbs you speak of?

Diversification

Since TOS is free through AMTD you can setup two accounts. Transfer your 401k to AMTD and setup another futures account. As to the latter point, pretty much everyone I know trades through an FCM that offers intra-day margins, so risk managers have a lot less than 80-points of margin, more...

The funny thing is I was going to reccomend you switch anyway. If all you're trading is futures find a quality firm dedicated to that.

If all the other firms jumped off the bridge should TOS/AMTD? Like I said, maybe they are just trying to be conservative. Lower margins = more business. So firms have little incentive to raise them, including the CME. Look no further than the $400 (maybe $300 now?) intra-day margins being...