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    oh no-the italians have done it again..

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9103705/Concordia-captain-changed-ships-speed-for-dinner-with-ex-dancer.html
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    Migrating Locals

    Why do I need to move to Chicago? I can trade CBOT/CME from London Are these the 2 Exchanges you have selected to move to?I have not really traded much on CME.I have traded CBOT today ( ZN). The daily volume of the US ten year is approx double to that of the EUREX Bund future, hence...
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    Trading Arcades

    Swabber, thats my point entirely. A newbie trading at an arcade on say a 70/30 split needs to be clearing approx £2k a week ( £100k PA) - to take home a pay packet of £30k after all the costs involved ( Desk hire,travel,tax,accountancy fees,splits).That is some good going to be clearing...
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    Migrating Locals

    Broken record? I am just asking which exchanges active locals are looking to move to/have moved to, as evidently not present in EUREX currently as the volumes are so low.
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    Migrating Locals

    The question wasnt if people are making money or losing money- its a zero sum game, so of course some people will make money and some lose. The question was is what Exchanges are intraday Locals migrating to for the future bearing in mind the volumes are ever decreasing and Liquidity in...
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    Migrating Locals

    I keep looking at the EUREX as to try to give myself a reason to go back and trade this exchange, despite thinking of every possible excuse too, I just cannot justify going back.I can truly see the FGBL trading no more than 250k contracts a day by the end of 2012.Three other guys in my office...
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    Eurex Vols

    Agree with the range and volume quote.Hence I have moved over to US exchanges as the EUREX products are just slowly dying a death Volume wise, hence many of the guys at my firm dont bother with EUREX anymore, shame really as was a good exchange to trade up until a year or so ago, dread to...
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    Eurex Vols

    Spread trading European Futures?? I think your 10 years to late for that game.Its 2012 not 2002.You have more chance of consistently making money from betting on the 200/1 shot at Haydock.
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    Eurex Vols

    NO, wouldnt join Schneider in place in a million years.
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    What are the largest fortunes ever made by INDEPENDENT traders?

    The Israelis could not invade Iran, they simply do not have the number to do so.If that happened the Iranians would flood Israel with martyrs/suicide bombers etc.There are apparently upto 1 million muslims who are prepared to die as martys to beat the Zionists, if that situation were to arise...
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    Eurex Vols

    True,I have just joined a Trading Arcade in the City, and have been informed that 6 of our relatively big trader guys ( 10k+ r/t a day ) have left trading EUREX all together and are now just trading the US exchanges.
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    Alternative Exchanges

    Now that EUREX is slowly dying a death- what other markets/exchanges are intraday locals moving too? I have had a brief look at CBOT and NYMEX, both which look rather more appealing than the current EUREX
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    Eurex Vols

    Its not boding well at all for the future.What Exchanges are people switching to now that EUREX is slowly dying a death? ( Jump ship before its to late etc )
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    Eurex Vols

    Not even 250k contracts have traded ( FGBL ) after 11am GMT-What the hell is going on?Are people still on their Xmas break and not returned yet?!
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    still no news on the greek bailout?

    why is it taking so long?I thought the meeting started 9 hours ago
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    What are the largest fortunes ever made by INDEPENDENT traders?

    The largest amount money that I know of was made on fundamental news, when the USSR invaded Afganistan in 1979- gold literallty went thru the roof- fearing the cold war etc- shame nowadays all wars are planned and no shocks to the markets, as its all factored into the price
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    Responses to threads

    I have been an avid lurker/follower of this board for the years, there always used to be constant gossip/replies to posts.However, over the last few months I have noticed a distinct lack of posts/replies.Is this due to the fact that trading EUREX as a local is a dying game and hence the lack of...
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    EUREX/volume and BOTS

    Here is an interesting article relating to Bots and Exchanges which I read a few weeks back : It appears that while we were busy over the past month spreading the Greek pre- and post-bankruptcy balance sheet, and otherwise torturing Excel (something we urge other financial journalists to...
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    Eurex Vols

    Another example of its why locals cannot blame the HFT brigade.The markets nowadays are so inter wound, there is no real direct correlation with any markets( Spreading/hedging etc.) One Local was continously selling bond futures when the Stocks were consistently making new highs, despite there...
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    Eurex Vols

    Agreed with the response.However I dont think locals can blame the HFT bunch, the market still moves and as such there is the same possibility to make money just on a different time frame , mainly intraday position trading as opposed to tick trading.Whilst I was viewing one of the major prop...
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