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Can you tell me what the price cap will be on some of these bonds so that I know where to place my short? If yields are 1%, who is to say that yields can't go down to .5%, .25%, .00001%. How will the shorts feel then? BTW, I'm not a bond expert or bond trader. I am fascinated with the current...

I was interrupted and posted before completing my last post, so a disclaimer. I never actually traded these ideas, it was more in a formulation stage. I was having some of the same issues with backtesting that you were having, with trying to compare relative strength on past market days. I...

I like some of your ideas, and have some general thoughts. First, I recommend that you do some searching through ET for posts by Dustin. He has been very open about some of his general strategies, which also revolve around relative strength/weakness with volume. I'm not sure what he has been up...

These "research reports" should be only allowed for issuance after market hours, if this two hour window is upheld. You still won't have a level playing field, as there will still be a group of insiders who know about the pending information release ahead of time. At least those entities would...

I guess the banks were getting tired of pesky traders interfering with their efforts to front-run the moves that are artificially manufactured by their ridiculous upgrades/downgrades. Its the easiest $$ on the street. Just about the time news outlets can release the rating info, the trading arm...

I haven't read through all the posts, so forgive me if this question has been raised. Is a poker game at a casino zero-sum? For every hand that is played, the house extracts a small fee. If the same group of individuals continue to play at the same table, moving chips back and forth amongst...

I don't think hedging market risk changes expectancy. When trading large size, however, it must be considered in order to reduce the chance for spectacular blowup. Trading large size is the only way to make a living off B/A. Is it coincidence that MMs are hedging off the market movement aspect...

Maybe the only way to do the inverse is to be a market-maker and collect bid/ask spread every trade, while continually hedging market risk.

You are correct Mark, I think a different strategy is in order. My temperment and preference are to be a premium seller, but I have some issues with IC's. Once you get far enough OTM that you won't need to worry about regular adjustments, the premiums get pretty sparse. I experimented with a...

Yes the B/A on ITM options will hurt when you want to close out positions in a hurry. It can be hard enough just to enter and exit a spread when it is stocks, considering possible slippage. I've thought about this idea before as well, and really had trouble finding an advantage to using...

Do any of you RUT option traders have experience trading OTM butterflies? I was trying to sell some today, I basically split the bid/ask and left my orders out all afternoon. No fills. How much do you have to give up on these? As it was the bid prices were basically zero or a nickel. Gee...

Evan Bayh's major complaint seems to be with the two-party system, not with Dems or Republicans in particular, and I agree with him 100%. It just so happens that the Dems are in power, so by voting out all incumbents, obviously this would hit the Dems harder. If we voted out incumbents Dems...

I'm too lazy to read this entire thread, but I am curious how much the pool is up to for Ali Sina's execution date.

Malkiel's argument makes some big generalizations about technicians. Every trader who refers to charts does not follow trends, as was pointed out earlier in this thread. Every trader, even every trend follower, does not trade in the same time frame. For one trader, a 5 minute trade might...

Huh? some of this list is so far out of left field, I don't even know what to say. Regarding the "financial rape" of the "entire nation of America", I would have to say that the evil genius had plenty of help. I'm not sure there was very much left in the coffers to pillage by the time Obama took...

Lasner, I saw your other thread asking whether gold options trade overnight...what happened with your position? I hope you didn't get hit too hard.

Personally, no...but I don't want to do the original trade either. I just threw it out there for comparison.

I bought their low-end machine in 2006, just bumped up the memory. It still runs fine, I was running 4 monitors with esignal, trading platform, a linked excel spreadsheet, and often used internet explorer to check the news as well. Sorry about your experience thus far. Contrary to the...

As long as someone is responding to your post, maybe they can answer this related question as well: Who decided that maintaining an approx. 2% inflation rate is a good idea? It is no wonder the savings rate in this country was terrible for so long; If you don't spend as much as possible, there...

I think he is already using limit orders.