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there was one two days ago. there are 600 tick ranges in most energy spreads. i think ill go and trade them easily and profitably. come to think of it anything with a huge range must be giving money away. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

time to accept reality. a couple of my friends have been strugglng recently and making absolutely nothing. they traded bund/bobl , bobl/shatz etc. they just quit last week. one of them turned up temping in the back/middle office of a decent us bank. duties included trade...

the japanese join the party. ShinGinko Tokyo, a heavily loss-making bank with what credit analysts have described as a “badly broken business model”, has blown a 100 billion yen (£400 million) hole in the accounts of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG). The bank, which was...

well i think that just stopped the whole thread with that comment. dont know the circumstances but im un surprised. but it seems fairly obvious to everybody whose made a contribution to the whole ' trading in the philippines thread '. there seems to be an opportunity to set up two...

'conditions in subprime market have eroded significantly.' eroded significanly. thats a fucking understatement. bear stearns just valued the fund at 0. :D :D

finally an admission about the housing market. 'the housing correction may be longer thann expected' he must have worked that one out on his own. well done benny boy

apologies. my reasoning is this: i thought this was a problem from a few weeks ago but the usual wall st spin was put on it and now it is finally exposed as a crock of shit i hope the that justice is finally served up to these idiots. honestly, if i hear another person say this problem...

why dont you hope so?

i hope so. http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSL1778758520070717

i love life. things aint so bad. especially when i read this news. hang on just let me pick myself up off the kitchen floor. no no no no i cant take it. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahha. :D wait whats this bernanke says subprime is not a threat to the broader...

the others not being locals.

i cant say that i like any of them. the ones that always catch your eye normally have a dollar sign with some sort of gambling/casino picture etc etc. i would personally go back to the drawing board with this because it will make the difference in sales.

i agree. once these guys get hold of something the news is worthless. valid point you made though. when my local paper put out a story about subprime being a mess and the reporter clearly did not have a clue what he was talking about the whole thing seems to have turned around in the...

speak to a guy called malcolm. he knows his stuff. http://www.curve-trader.com/forum.aspx?e1postid=2&e1threadid=2

welcome to the world of reverse leveraging in a market going downwards. you wait till october when an estimated $500 billion ARM'S are going to reset 200 basis points higher. that will be fun. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

does not matter whaty product you try to lok for you will find the same problem. the systems will plug into any contract of any product and trade it to death. find some you are knowledgable about and comfortable with and stick with it. there is no holy grail of a trading product giving...

bottom line is a system/algo/black box/computer cannot and will not take a punt. take a view and go with your gut feeling. same thing when your wrong and you get out. you just know its time to get out. something smells wrong. computers will never be able to do this in the current...

like you said ' you have been watching it'. try trading it. but you are right with the last comment. take a dirtectional view. do not spread trade tick for tick.

fantastic article about the bullshit within non farm payrolls. http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/employment/index.html

thats because cnbc wouldnt know big news if it kicked them in the arse. probably because its stock negative they did not mention it. also their so called market professionals preseenting do not understand credit spreads and the bond market. they only think there is one market and that...