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Also: July ZN will exercise into September ZN futures if they expire in-the-money. The spreads are quite reasonable at some hours of the day, but other times the market makers will just disappear. You can't always count on having a bid/ask to close your options position, but of course you can...

That language is so hard to interpret that you should just check the notice calendar under TEN YEAR NOTE OPTIONS. Here it is: http://www.cbot.com/cbot/docs/59721.doc For July ZN, the last trade date is June 24, 2005. Note that it is a week after stock options expire which can be confusing...

I am just getting more familiar with the COT reports. I noticed that you are referring to data from the Futures Only report. Why Futures Only and not Delta-adjusted Options and Futures Combined? That report seems to show a somewhat different result.

Maybe it is going to 4%? That would be a good reason to buy with the yield at 4.12%, no?

Anybody else having missing option quotes this past week in the IB TWS? I want to roll over some positions and there are no quotes, bummer. I've been waiting online with IB Chat for one hour too. IB Aimee sent me to Tech Support and they are not responding.

It's makin' me nervous when I see you short, marketsurfer. I've been long YG since last summer and was not planning on going flat here. I'm in this one for more of a long-term hold. What is your time frame and stop?

I use digitalspace.net and I think it meets your criteria.

I tried betting the farm in 2003 on a similar move. Well, as you can guess, the bank took the farm and it's awfully cold out here in the woods. It seemed like a good idea at the time, however. How could the market keep going up in June 2003? But best of luck on your trade. Somebody will...

http://www.everbank.com/main.asp?affid=eb They offer CDs in renminbi. I think they currently pay about 0% interest but they are FDIC-insured. People are putting money there in the expectation of some movement in the exchange rate in the next year or two. Good luck...

This is a commonly asked question here on ET. I'm sure you will get some good answers, but you might also try using the Search function with keywords like "ETF" and "SPY" (or "QQQ"). That should pull up a wealth of responses by people who might not be found here so frequently any more. I...

Sorry to see the market falling today, guys. My finger slipped, I swear. Maybe CME and CBOT will bust all of today's trades below ES 1000 and NQ 1300. It would be fair ... :p

I'm out. Moving on. Watch it go back up. Have a good weekend.

I should start selling my trades. At least you guys would know what not to do. Come to think of it, that's probably how a lot of market gurus get started (by losing their ass...).

Ugh...the 40-point drop in NQ has me worried. What happened to buying the dips? Bail now? God, I feel like a new contrarian indicator.

Like a whiz at market timing...

Well, at 10:15 AM I decided I had had enough of this suffering as a bear. I covered all my shorts and bought 200 QQQ 32 calls. Frankly, this sucks... :mad:

I personally would prefer to see some of the ENRON top honchos in jail and stripped of their ill-gotten gains. But given their political connections, does anyone think that will happen? It's easier to go after little Martha Stewart and divert attention from the real criminals... :D

Quotes back. Okay, I formally give up that paranoia-inducing weed...

Same here. First thought: Okay, they're taking Globex down again like last month, now they'll run the pit futures higher. Is this the case?

The pattern seems to skip every other month, e.g. April, June, August, etc. This is similar to the e-minis (NQ, ES -- skip every three months) except there are no contracts in-between with the e-minis. It really makes no sense that there is a July contract. It seems like a trap for the...