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There is an excellent article in this weeks "The Economist" titled "Running on M3"...

Dogfish, Thanks for your post, very interesting... The patterns you describe are exactly those which have been killing me for the past 6 months. These flippers get into action generally in the morning in a slightly trending market with below average volume. When not caught by them, I tried...

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OK... After my last post I believe I am a predictable idiot... :)

My 2 cents... In my experience as a trader, I had the opportunity to test both strategies. My first job was to work for a CTA. Although very interesting, I find it over time extremely frustrating to follow the firm models blindly, and not intervening when I "felt" I would have put another...

Hi guys, This thread was actually great... I learnt a lot reading monkey's old posts, as well as Cutten and Stratcat ones. Extremely interesting... I am wondering if they are still there... I left an IB a couple of months ago to daytrade the bund in a prop shop (I was an HY trader for a few...

Easy... Don't be so rude... The guy just begun trading and had 6 difficult months. He will have to explain his first experience in his next interviews... Raize, scalping is an extremely difficult job. It is not a shame to be negative after 6 months as long as you are learning. IMHO, you...

gooood ! :) Just remembered I was stuck for a long time in an illiquid position on the 09's...

I have been EM trader for a few years... Let's check : what is the benchmark LT bond in Costa Rica? :)

Remember it was 2:30 in the US at that time...

OK Tx... It's just that the news stated the quake happened at 32... Now I know why I lost money :)

9:28... You must be base in england, right?

I believe the earthquake has nothing to do with it as the move on the Bund/Bobl/Gilt happened 4 minutes before. The news on California were released on BBG / Reuters much later. On the bund, more than 40,000 lots traded in 3 minutes... All that I know is that I entered a short on the Bund...

:) You are completely right, but you know that as an economist, he doesn t have a stop loss! I just wanted to point out that on interest rates you can pick 10 top economists, far mor intelligent than I am, and they will have 10 different views...

Your condescendance suggests that you are in the "smart money camp", and therefore you have great ideas about the future direction of interest rates. Please share them with us. BTW, I just read the reports of two truely brilliant economists (Roach from Morgan Stanley and Rosenberg from...

Sell ED futures only if you think that short term interest rates are going to rise HIGHER THAN EXPECTED. There are already a few IR hikes priced in the ED, which represent a "consensus" view. You can also short the banking sector, most likely to suffer from tightening periods if you are really...

On a pure Interest rate perspective, the correct hedge is currently 69 bunds for 100 Tnotes. I took into account the current OAS duration on BBG (8.17 for Bund and 7.6 for the Tnote) and a EURUSD of 1.1965 However, to trade the spread I would take into account the historical volatility...

Any idea of what is going on with the bund? 40,000 lots in 2 secs...