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I know guys who have made $2000/week trading bonds with sub $100k accounts for the last 20 years. They just can't make the leap to the next level.

It's analogous to a guy who says he wants to go out with a beautiful girl but who has never actually asked one out. Saying you want something and doing something about it are very different things.

I can only surmise that there are very few scalpers on this board. I once cut my size by a factor of thirty for a week after a bad loss. Conversely, I'll size up when things are going well and I'm in the zone. If you are always trading the same size without taking into account your performance...

The Eurodollar pit was rocking in 2003.

Trading will give you the opportunity to learn how the stock market works?? Would you recommend someone take up bridge building so they can learn Newtonian physics?

If initiating shorts were banned then the only possible sellers are people who are already long. But, potential buyers include longs and shorts. When a long sells to a long open interest stays the same. When a long sells to a short OI declines. By looking at OI and daily volumes the half=life of...

Without a 'short' a future doesn't exist.

As a fellow rates guy I will give you a slightly different take. I'm a natural spreader. I look at what is cheap and expensive right now. If you have longer term views (I have them, but do all I can to suppress them haha) then you should probably trade outright.

Nothing is "highly liquid" during a news inducing 10% spike.

Science makes ACCURATE predictions. Ans we all know how accurate Al Gore's were....

Don't let the facts interrupt a good narrative.

This is an insult to poodles everywhere!!

There were warnings but if you withdrew money in the last 1 or 2 weeks, that money was confiscated by the trustee. I tried to take delivery of gold contracts but the trustee wouldn't let the gold be delivered. In the end customers were made whole but it was a scary journey. I use 3 clearers now.

I'm the ultimate fader. The key is knowing when to step away.

Nice dodge

Can someone explain when in history the climate wasn't changing?

MidwesternTrader sounds like the present day Ed Seykota. Good job.

It doesn't matter. A small trader can front large orders profitably even if those orders aren't profitable for the principal involved. It all depends on the time frame.

Your job is not to identify the "who", focus instead on where the aggressive buyers and sellers are concentrated.

Banks make money from order flow. They rarely have a strong view.