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The forward curve for currencies has NO standardized dates. Therefore if you asked for a market in a swap, you could in theory chose any date you like out in the future so long as that date is not a weekend or a banking holiday in one the currencies in the swap. Forget the futures, since we've...

Standardized contracts ie. Futures are on the quarters of each year MAR, JUN, SEP and DEC. Forwards on the other hand can be priced to any day you want. Obviously the further out in time you go the wider the market in the forward. Just as an example if you wanted a 60 day forward in...

If you had access to the interbank market you could get a forward priced to any date you like. The value is a simple calculation based on spot plus / minus the carry to that date. Futures are just standardized forwards.

What was your screen name last you when you touted those kinds of puts? I cant remeber which one you used then.

I like the good laughs one of these conspiracy threads provides. Yes there are a lot of market making firms who are hurting. It began with decimalization and its gotten worse from there for them. The back side of that is that its created a bevy of soft money and payment for order flow...

didn't mean to confuse, and THI is the parent company of IB and they may offer clearing services, I will take your word for it.

No offense but economies of scale are a HUGE issue too. Its wonderful if you can trade in a retail environment using 25 or 50 or even 100k of your own capital. Thats a far far cry from providing return on any significant capital and dealing with legal, tax, regulatory and accounting issues. Not...

What data do you have that shows a direct correlation of margin increases to higher volatility other then your own interpretation on your perception of trading patterns?

IB is not a clearing firm they are retail brokers. I believe the original posted indicated that he was a money manager not a retial guy. He may be confused as to the difference. We clear Goldman and FIMAT and both of them will execute whatever risk parameters we agree on, subject to...

The MM's dont know or care what's in your position. In straight equities your broker sends orders to many different mm's all as part of payment for order flow deals. Your order is not tagged with an account as it hits the MM's book. Why would he even care whose account it is? In all but the most...

Just about every clearing firm will do that for you.

You're a fund manager and you dont know these things? Come on lets keep it real

There is no specialist on ES options, they're options on the futures its a different system. Same with NBBO since they're the only market. Most likely your screens were slow when the market was whipping around

A rate cut is inherently inflationary, thats econ 101. Hard to take this thread seriously when no one comments on that.

They dont say anything before the meeting ends and there is no place to get the news any faster then on TV or on a Bloomberg or Reuters terminal.

its the internet do you really care if people try and brag here when they cant back it up? Rule of thumb... divide their profit and position size by a minimum of 10

I agree ... they're not signals. Most of the large institutional volume is tied to stock or options on something else. Much of it is big dispersion business these days. Also all the big stuff gets shopped around before it hits the market

Fair enough ... you "might" be able to.

There are no assumptions which will give you a clue as to who initiated the trade and what side they were on or whether they were opening or closing. There is also NO way of know what they did vs. the options. No offense but you can follow the ticker as close as you like. The rules are such...

Good point cache.. I was looking at it from the other side and assumed the original poster was talking about selling the weekend.