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I don't like to trade single names because they can easily be run up and driven down to flush out speculators. The same thing can happen elsewhere, but a single name is very susceptible to it. Have to be careful in the cash market for a lot of different reasons.

You forgot to mention the buybacks. Buybacks’ drain on corporate treasuries has been massive. The 465 companies in the S&P 500 Index in January 2019 that were publicly listed between 2009 and 2018 spent, over that decade, $4.3 trillion on buybacks, equal to 52% of net income, and another $3.3...

I have second and minute charts to time markets but I look a week back and/or a couple weeks back for context -- using all timeframes.

There's always a trade. Maybe you should expand into more markets and spreads.

You're clueless. It's not negative rates. It's negative yields. In other words, sovereign debt instruments are trading above par, and even above the sum of all discounted future cash flows. Many reasons for this to happen.

I have been watching RUT forever, it was actually my favorite for a while. One thing that you have to be aware of are the weightings in this index. It's something like healthcare, financials, industrials, and tech all have similar weighting and make up roughly 60% of the index. It's much less...

It's the way of the world boy. What's power if you can't flex it? More in this same vein... https://dcist.com/story/15/08/19/ashley-madison-leak-includes-22-dc/

I think it's too late. The reality is, the businesses are failing. Many are already effectively bankrupt entities and won't be reopening. The jobs are gone. Personal bankruptcy will be wide spread. The job losses will become structural. The solution is a deflationary depression, so that...

Using IBKR, but TOS is nice for charts.

What I'm saying is that without knowing about this stuff it will be hard to know why you might want to trade something, like say a crush spread, and why you might not. You should know about SPAN and how to get all the information you will need from the CME site (contract specifications, tick...

There is a very steep learning curve in futures spreads. This is because, not only do you have to understand futures and outright risk (and how to trade it), you also have to understand calendar and intermarket spreads (and what might influence those markets). Stuff like spot/forward...

As you well know, TWS charting is a total nightmare. In a few words, its faulty, clumsy, and heavy. Not saying you can't use it (I do), but it's full of problems. Some of them are horrible, especially for what I need it to do. I love the IB API though. thinkScript is a nice little tool that...

Thanks bone. I'm starting to like rate fly's and ICS spreads. Definitely useful whether you are trading them or just looking to get a read on the action in the outrights. Cheers.

The unemployed numbers are insane. It's literally 10X what every other recession had. v shaped? double dip? LOL

The smartest algo's are using relationships between markets. Stuff like the differential of a higher beta portfolio vs a lower beta portfolio, treasury market interest rate differentials, sector spreads, differentials of indexes, correlation weighted differentials, intermarket and calendar...

ThinkorSwim VWAP is pretty good.

MDAX : DBI MDAX Performance - Index It's actually not FDAX, it's the index below that... DAX : DBI is the FDAX, MDAX is a closely related index.

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