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10 and 30yr settlement today reinvestment of coupon payments one reason for rally...

Well as far as I am concerned I have developed my edge from years of trading arbitrage in the treasury market and trading outright in the equity futures markets. This has given me my edge in trading outrights not only in the treasury market but other markets as well. Recognizing what the...

you just named it: getting backed, cheaper turns, faster speed, good front ends and support. Being in a group with guys who make thousands a day and seeing what they do and how they do it. That is an environment to learn and succeed whatever firm that may be. Everyone has to develop their own...

with CPI as high as it is I am shocked like you are, I trade the intra day tape and levels so it is what it is. In reading some economists interpretations some see this as a short term issue. Like someone on here said before "markets don't have to make sense and can stay irrational longer than...

as commodity bubble bursts Hedge Funds putting $ into safe haven = US Treasuries doesn't matter what spooz and oil are doing.

short 116.21 took me 30 minutes to cover at 17 now look at em

big fan of the guy who sold 4000 and made it go from 116.225 to 116.16 in one second. I fade you thanks buddy!

one of the worst days I have traded in months, so choppy listless after first move up miserable no follow through

Bondo Calrissian here, this $hit is getting nutty! A true bounty hunter's market! Ten year keeps dipping and slipping around 4% we'll see if oil and other commodities keep failing. I don't think we get any real movement till CPI on thursday and PPI next week. Gold got hammered today pretty...

wow that was an auction!

then a slow protracted drip into spooz close miserable I had been getting short since the annoucement and had to wait so long so cover anything brutal! Just to get me back to scratch, can not figure why they won't kill it... Curve steepened a lot short end buying held it up I guess.

this market is bull$hit we gotta go to 1212 to 1230 or 1290+ in the spooz soon which would correspond to a ZB at 117+ and/or 112-113 this market has got to make up it's mind soon. I don't mind these inside days but they are getting old fast! Maybe after FOMC something will happen cause when...

you can not trade basis on your own, Basis trading is spreading cash vs. futures and as an individual you can not trade cash. Well you can if you have a lot of money (Fund) and use an FCM who trades cash to clear it I guess. That trade due to the recent volatility and thinness of the markets...

every day the first hour has a full handle move up or down crazy $hit, you can take it down or get run over real bad. $hit is on full tilt!!!! NFP should interesting to say the least. We'll see if these spooz can extend past 1320-1330 and/or if they fail after this end of month rally...

a "large west cost player" unloaded 10 billion ty cash, that is why when the spooz sold off (62-53) the bonds got killed. Fu$cking Bill Gross! Bond Trader 50 that was sick! Then it finally rallied after they unloaded their bull$hit.

you da man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice sell off today. Mayeb TP in a day!

i meant intra-day, all I know is the ZB could be up or down 2 handles tomorrow I am just getting ready to strap in for the ride. They might jam spooz up for options expiration who knows all I know is that selling rallies in the equity world has been good recently. It seems like in the bondo...

as spooz rally and the curve does not flatten that tells you that equity rallies are short covering as the REAL MONEY in the world trades US paper and when the ZB and ZN do not tank even after a 35 point rally in spooz (off the low) what does that tell you? Curve steepens as flight to quality...

sorry I shot from the hip. As a futures/cash trader I make a lot of short trades, just read the article got it clear now.

you can't sell Freddie and Fannie short for 30 days? We are turning into a communist country, what about free markets? Next they will say you can only be short oil! Oh and primary dealers what a bunch of bull$hit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!