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5-year Note Auction Results: High Yield 2.689% (2.635% expected); Bid/Cover 1.92x (2009 Avg 2.22x); Indirect Bidders 36.7% (2009 Avg 41.9%) Previous offering saw $37B, 2.7% yield, with a bid-to-cover of 2.58x and an indirect bidder participation rate of 62.8%.

Oil still getting clobbered and USD strengthening - not even a flinch in equities

Oil and the euro saying the SPX should be sold but put - call ratios still pretty bullish. No one will sell yet. Doesn't have to happen today but when they decide to it should be ugly.

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For anyone watching month end markups - today is the last day to buy to show on your books for T+3 prior to friday. Maybe helping out a bit on the bid side. It matters a lot more at end of quarters but given the run this month it could be an issue.

Yes LC and wave. 7 sounds about right...

Wow - this journal used to have some pretty good analysis and commentary in it. Now it just sucks....aside from B1S2 and maybe 1 or two others....

Most likely only those that are forced to from a buy-in. Cash market volume running much lower than has been last few days...

You don't think MSFT - one of the largest companies in the world - is also in the SPX numnuts?

I think lack of supply for borrowing to short is getting limited everywhere, not just at IB. My guess is (non conspiracy theorist) is that the loaners (owners) of the stocks are actually selling or getting ready to sell their shares, and therefore the shares must be returned to the borrowers so...

Anyone watching this USD euro move off the top? Hasn't affected equities yet but I find it interesting given stocks strength and the bond auctions announced today (for next week).

Most likely because there is feverish upside call buying on this move. Check this out every half hour - http://www.cboe.com/Data/IntraDayVol.aspx While the VIX is usually used as a "fear guage" it is influenced by the price of calls and puts - this happened one day last week as well. Very...

Until you are in a position to do that size trading yourself, I would refrain from making judgment and/or proclaiming what you would or would not do. I don't know of anyone that has been wildly successful in trading that hasn't gone through some serious rough patches along the way. It's the...

I think because INTC was halted right before the futures closed. Obviously the idea of why it was halted was incorrect.

Cash spx registering over 900 as ES hitting 897? where do you get the 6 points? Just curious - I am with you on direction bulls cooking themselves here but I think that is probably the plan.

Satchel joins the long and growing list of ignored posters. Good evening everyone - the spy volume on close was just absolutely unreal....

Yep - easy as pie with no stop and no risk eh?

Live posting is fine - however you never post an out against a catastrophic event in the event that the trade goes against you. And you have posted several that have gone against you (albeit certainly not today :) ) over the past couple of weeks which lends to the questions about your posting.

Everyone trying to front run everyone else on quarter end mark ups - nothing else matters for now...

Yes I think a lot of this (this morning's buying as well) is based on markups for quarter end - and Nazzy has definitely been strong this qtr so not hard to imagine real support there. Though I would think the qtr end markup would have to be finished by friday.