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I am not sure what you mean. Do you mean far OTM calendar spread options?

It was the year of the food riots. Minneapolis Wheat spreads between March and May went backwardated +700( and it wasn't intercrop ). The outright market was opening limit up for 2 weeks or so. Plenty of people were caught short and had to exit their positions using synthetics via options.

Backwardation : 160( 2008 ) Contango : -36(2011 )

I have never used trend-following strategies on intra or intermarket spreads but I know a lot of people are. Actually sometimes my seasonal trades are in fact trend-following. We enter for different reasons but we all end up with the same trades...

SRW is harvested in June. July 19 is the first 2019 crop expiry. May 19 is still a 2018 crop expiry.

Lots of frogs here( me included ).

I would say Scarrtrading is good too, and if you are looking for a real order entry/news/chart analysis software for this kind of trading, DTN prophet X is great.

Seriously, yes. It is my most important peace of software regarding long term trades and the price is like 400$ per year or so. I use it constantly.I have more than 1000 alerts running right now. I was thinking the other day what a nightmare it would be for me if they go under...

Terrible trade. Straight to my stop. No retracement. Out @ 4.

Long ZS Sep/Nov/Jan Fly @ 0. I now have a double fly on with the short Nov/Jan/Mar. - Rumors of resumed talks with China and good outcome with Europeans. -Limited downside historically.

Long feeders Sep/Oct18 @ -0.925. - Spread historically low -Q/U has started to rally -Seasonal window

I just went long spring wheat Dec / short feed wheat Nov @ -20.2 $/ton spread( feed premium...). I hedged currency exposure short GBP.USD cash. - MW crop not as huge as we thought a few weeks ago -The arbitrage is open now for virtually any kind of wheat to enter the UK and end the shortage.

Actually, if you are talking french banks, I remember one of my friends had quite an adventure moving a small sum from BNP Paribas to UBS in Switzerland. But I maintain an account at Crédit Agricole and never had such problems. NB: The problem with Credit Agricole is that their withdrawing and...

Seriously, I have not really noticed the change you are talking about. I hate this part of the relocation process when you have to create a new company in the new country and progressively move your accounts there. The wire chain Broker Company 1 to commercial bank company 1 to personal account(...

I am already long part of the curve, as you know, Rachmaninov;)

That's exactly where I will live. It's not dead set, but 80% chance.

Mainland( Basque Country ).

So true. that's exactly what I am doing for my current relocation to Spain. PWC is doing a full analysis of my personal situation. It will cost me 3K Euros, but a relocation is such an important step in a life and it is so easy to miss something that I prefer to get advice from professionals...

Now contemplate the cost of not following my expert advice...LOL:cool:

Normal tax regime is OK in Spain, not a tax haven by any means, but there are much worse jurisdiction. If you incorporate yourself, you would 25% corporate tax + 23% on dividends = 0.25 + 0.75 * 0.23 = 42% taxation in the top bracket. The first 2 years , the corporate tax is 15% I think. You pay...