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i'll try and dumb it down a bit more for you- imagine two pies- one representing all the income earned in a country broken down by incomes, another representing all the taxes collected broken down by the incomes they came from. the first pie almost half (40%) of it would be the money that was...

i guess i'm one of the 14% that want's to take an axe (not a scalpel) to government spending in all forms. 45% of american's didn't pay any federal taxes this year 43% of american's felt the tax rates are about right i wish i was on the dole ---- and for the silly people who think...

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get rid of all tax loopholes and slap a 30% tax on everyone over the first 20k they make and you can link that 20k to inflation. bam! problem solved. rich can't avoid taxes through loopholes, poor don't get screwed on the money they need for simple cost of living. why is everyone so against...

i traded and earned massive profits risking 16.67% on setups like this for 3 years in a row but recently lowered my tolerance to 5%. i just wanted to make sure i as more sustainable through my badluck. it has worked very well for me so far.

the worst news for the housing market in a long time is that now you are hearing rumors of the death of the 30yr loan. reducing a loan's lifetime from 30 yrs to 15 yrs will provide a huge headwind for housing, combine that with interest rates in general going up over the next decade and you...

you are misunderstanding my goals in these purchases- it is not to make money through short-term speculation, it is insurance against the dollar [read: all fiat currencies] failing. i figure the dollar will fail as a currency at some point in my life, so if i constantly roll way OTM options on...

i was thinking about opening an IB account to buy leap OTM calls on silver. if someone could spare a min to look up a quote could you let me know how far out it is possible to buy an 80$ call? on cmegroup.com i see they quote dec '15 silver contracts, is it possible to buy a call that far out...

this is a class that can count towards one of your freshman requirement classes- it was known as a complete blow-off course when i was there, much like i'd assume most required freshman courses at most universities/colleges around the country are. i think we should do away with those req's and...

when does june switch to front month- monday?

not my playground- can't give you any advice there out of my last at 3:15- all basically at the same price, surprising

well least amount of contracts moves you out further on the curve- the simplest balanced one would be a zb fly -2 ub, +6 zb, -5 zn although someone posted earlier questioning the validity of the cme provided spread ratios- so maybe there is an easier one. personally i wouldn't trade flys...

i love choppy messes :p but seriously, they don't buy that many fits and have a weak nob to boot in a rally unless some massive ty positions are being unloaded-- somebody really believes the stock market will bounce back and pressure rates up again.

took my loss on 1/3 of my ty fly's 30 min's ago, hoping after taking a bite out of me they'll move it a bit back for me to take the loss on the other 2/3 but hasn't happened so far, exiting another 1/3 in the next 10 min and then will hold the rest til 330ish central edit: out 2/3 now, ty fly...

i didn't take enough out of my short zf flys before getting trapped in ty flys and giving back my day and a bit more- o well not gonna see these extremes everyday *hopefully* (or if we do i'll have to start betting on them more)

edit: books might be important if you do trades like this :p i only trade intra-day so order flow is much more important for me. i like short fv against the rest of the curve until the auction today after that ungodly strength yesterday- strongest 1 day fv move if i remember correctly since...

if you are going to "read" anything, learn to read price action- it will make you many times more money than any of these books. i learned to read price action before opening any books like the ones mentioned before, and i can honestly say none of the books did anything to improve my trading...

yeah, it shouldn't take much more than 1 losing day to lock in QE3 as a must-have. remember those days long ago when there were *gasp* 2 down days?

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x3 at my firm where we were taught basic strategies we still saw an 80%+ failure rate at trading the yield curve. so careful if you want to come play in this playground. on the flip side when you hear of the billions of dollars reaped in fixed income trading by the largest investment banks-...