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Hey, didn't mean to attack you or anything, I didn't even see your post before I made my post, I just wanted to point out that FF have a different settlement than you might expect, and that would affect the way you'd look at the front month as an indication of fed movements. But I'm thinking...

Fed funds front month are weighted depending on how long they have left to expiration, so where M6 is trading on the 15th is not as true a picture of what the market thinks is going on than say, where M6 is trading the 1st of June, gets worse towards expiration. Not worth explaining the settle...

here's my opinion, for what its worth....Bund and 10 yr have had some nice rallies recently, U.S. equities have broke quite a bit. The flight to quality trade...equities break, fixed income rally's....but, keep in mind, if you were in equities last week and sold during the break, you could...

JMowery, you totally support yourself off of trading profits?

I was trading I.R. products when the spoos rallied a couple points last night. IMO, I don't think its anything more than some buying/selling that tips off some stops in a thin market. Just my 2 ticks. Trading I.R. products overnight, I usually watch the Bund, but its pretty wild, 10yr follows...

Anybody who really knows trading knows what an 'edge' is...but in case you don't, NTB just spelled it out here. Well put.

Cause it very nearly is for most. I'd be easily proven wrong if anybody could give proof of someone starting from very little (say their own stake, 20g or so) and making a good living, after taxes and fees, trading, self taught totally, for longer than maybe 3 years in a different market...

Well said. I know a couple guys that made unbelievable money trading futures, I know a couple that grind it out. The nature of these markets are just that...if your in the right place, right time, right market, to make a fortune in a few years, you do and go into other things. Eh I guess...

If you want to do what I'm doing, i.e. get backed by a trader/group of traders and work a deal w/ your profits for the next few years, its not really as difficult as you'd think, if you are a real go getter and willing to move to chicago. Thats the key though, you gotta be near the exchanges to...

Just monster. Thats why it was so against the odds that I get a good call. It just so happened they weren't really 'good' at searching for people, they usually hired clerks that had been in the biz, but needed another when some other people backed out.

Worst part of that movie...it was a poorly done Niezsche quote (almost as poorly as I just butchered his name). It was something closer to..."When a man stares long enough into the abyss, the abyss stares back at him..." Depending on translation....as well in some of his other books, "One...

thanks fellas for all the nice replies. I wanted to give an update on what I'm doing for the couple folks around here I've conversed with. to answer a couple questions: Overnight I trade CME products, but generally pay attention to the european markets/numbers because they're what...

I thought I'd share my story (up till this point) with my ET friends. First some background... My senior year in college I was pretty lost. I had good grades, but a go nowhere major and no real idea what I wanted to do. My dad is a self made businessman (from the oldschool) and made alot of...

Brown line, Quincy stop. Ya gotta live in lincoln park for the close proximity to the DePaul coeds! Yeah right, lol

I just had a premonition that this is just a little too out there for a first post, and that this is actually some forum regular birthing a new alias to have a little fun. If no, what firm are you with? I must be right next to you, I trade in chicago in an office smack dab in between the...

you mean Goldman paid 5 on 100, right? Simply, you have to be good in a different way to trade on the screen. Several of the guys in my office were in the pit first, it just was a different world, they say.

Thanks to everyone that's helping me. I've used a program like this before, I think some of the one's mentioned. FuturesTrader...I've read alot of your posts and I think what you use the software for is closest to my application. Quick question if you can, how long of a period of time do...

Hey I need some help deciding whats a good screen recording software. The aim is his: Probably set up a computer nobody's trading on in the office w/ globex up and record the market as much of the day as we can. If we can do the whole day, good, if not then whatever we can. I remember some...

I'll have to let a friend of mine know that when he come's to visit. He wants to have Santelli record the answering machine from his cell phone, something like "We're live in the Chicago Bond Pits and John can't come to the phone he's stuck short!" Or something

bueller?