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Eurex to enhance Bobl contract Tick size of Bobl future to be increased from half to full tick 21 Apr 2009 As of 11 May 2009, the leading derivatives exchange Eurex will increase the minimum price change (tick size) for futures based on medium-term (five years) debt instrument issued by the...

its official. just phoned them up and they confirmed it. announcement soon. inevitable really. liife changed the sterling strip to full ticks and the volume hsa gone up. if the bobl volume increases then expect the shatz to do the same. it was an algo driven idea to get half ticks...

cross trading is a fact. anyone who does not believe it goes on is an idiot. forget rotter he is no threat in todays new modern market. algos based companies ( rsj and renaissance ) are crossing trades to create the impression of prices trading all the time. the reason they can do...

smart move. thats where all the punters and scalpers are. especially the koreans and japs. they wouldnt know a spread trade if it bit them on the arse. he is probably cleaning up the locals and punters out there big time. after travelling thru asia and knowing the culture a bit he...

in july trichet raised rates. he also said he said in november he saw no credit crunch in europe. on the contrary he saw credit expansion. oh la la monsieur trichet. what a prick you are.

VERY WORRING INDEED. THIS IS HOW CLOSE WE ARE TO THE ABYSS MY FRIENDS. '' He resisted those who wanted to dictate how banks would spend their rescue money. And he prevailed over top administration aides who wanted to replace bank executives and wipe out shareholders at institutions...

looks like eurex still bending over backwards to accommadate algos to me. they are so dependent on their volume now they are fucked. every day, every week, every month, every quarter the volumes are getting lower and lower. when they realise that algos are actually causing damage to the...

AHA finally someone woke up. good news for traders like myself. once one exchange did it the rest will follow. still think they are doing it for the wrong reason though. this will halt algos based companies ability to trade. they need 1/2 ticks. easier to push around and for...

liffe total exchange y/y jan 08/jan09 - down 35% liffe stirs y/y jan 08/jan09 - down 49% equity indexes y/y jan 08/jan09 - down 41% well liffe dont seem to be escaping the volume meltdown. much to their surprise. they seemed to think they were immune to this...

this is just shocking short the arse off the shares right now. these dtas have now tripled and are double citibanks worth. this is a fucking joke Even now, Citigroup Inc.’s bosses can’t get over their delusions of grandeur. You can see their shiny optimism in a $44 billion...

hi everybody. well eurex got off to a great start for january. bund dec year on year down 56.2 %. bobl dec year on year 53.4 %. shatz dec year on year 48.6%. http://www.eurexchange.com/download/statistics/monthly/monthlystat_200901.xls not the best of starts for the new year in...

WHY THE FUCK DO THEY NEED A CORPORATE JET ANYWAY. they had 3 apparently. sold one last year and one now so they still got one. i dont think these people get it. extort coffee from poor peasant farmers around the world for one cent a sack and then sell it to in debt westerners at...

if obama does anything this is what he should do. thain should go to jail for what he has done. ken lewis should resign. geithner got to go. 3 days in to a new administration and corruption rules the day again. what a farce...

just heard this from a mate at one of the trading floors. yep you heard it correct. they were not supposed to pay them until the end of the month. goodbye common stock. it will be worthless by next week.

yes friends they are in ' DE NILE ' . trichets own words 2 months ago. 'We see no credit crunch, certainly not when you look at the figures that have been published… Since mid-September we have a very, very, big, significant intensification of intentions which are associated in...

Management Change at Eurex Bonds and Eurex Repo Laurent Ortiz becomes new General Manager of Eurex Bonds and Eurex Repo/ General Manager Christian Klapproth decides to leave the company http://www.eurexchange.com/about/press/press_611_en.html whatever way you read into this he must have...

oh shock horror. as i said before many times. the banks uk or us or european are bankrupt on paper. the governments and joe public are only waking up to this. forget the new year and january rally for stocks. Chancellor Alistair Darling on brink of second bailout for banks...

TCA closed down at SCHNEIDER. plus at least another 2 within SCHNEIDER. there was other boutique operations as well at other places. not sure the names but the options market making house was one that went belly up as well on the sterling move this year. there has been significant...

a mixture of both. i know certainly of at least 2 resaonable size arcade companies gone to the wall this year. mostly on the basis of margin required to trade and obviously their traders cant make money. individual traders still about in smaller size. i dont think there is a market...

THE FULL REVERSION. pretty much. ive traded electronically since the beginning and during that time whether there have been rate cuts, rate hikes, 9/11 , tube explosions, geo political events, central bank talk etc etc any moves on the outrights have never been more than about 50 to 75...