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    Credit Default Swaps

    Unless you have 10MM notional, most CDS deals are traded in the OTC market. 10MM is about the smallest we will work with on the desk.. The dealers, spread the things out wider than a football goalpost partially because the pricing on some of them is so shaky. Rooms of pricing specialists come...
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    US mortgage crisis goes into meltdown

    I do have some pity remaining in my heart... I'll donate $1 to my laid-off mortgage broker acquaintance who constantly bullied me in high school.... :D ONE DOLLAR WINTHORPE!
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    US mortgage crisis goes into meltdown

    yep..... close to that.. it was around 800k early in feb 800k to "insure" per 10M mtge debt against default... This has the makings of a crisis... I just hope some "LTCM Genius" didn't think to leverage himself to the hilt and start selling the index thinking Kudlow's spewing would be...
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    US mortgage crisis goes into meltdown

    we haven't even reached the creschendo of pain yet... the mbs indices on bloomberg workstation point that this recent upturn is still below 2002 highs.......... the "cds" of mbs's is trading higher and higher everyday...its costing more to insure against default in the portfolios and the...
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    Suze Orman is Coming Out

    I didn't know Suze coming out would have such a polarized effect! whatever... i personally don't care... who she boinks in bed doesn't affect me, and i don't listen to her financial advice. i just think it's funny (in my own way) :p
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    Question for bond futures traders

    correction... the spread action for yield curve is actually not so much on the 30y per se, it's at the 2/5/10 level.
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    Question for bond futures traders

    10year is the benchmark... it actually has the most volume you can do a 2/5 spread 2/10 5/10 2/5/10 2/5/10/30 10/30 5/30 just about anything you want.... curto would know bout the options on those, he's there on the cbot floor... but for the most active, at least in the cash...
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    Abercrombie: Wage Increases to Cost $6M

    I'll sell you a new car :p
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    Suze Orman is Coming Out

    ...........I put a trade on the 50% bottom section :D i should go bet on this at cantorindex. :D
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    Suze Orman is Coming Out

    Might not be interesting news, but it's still news, and it's still Wall Street News. So, I posted it here. You a news censor or something? What should I eat for breakfast, o great Ayatollah? What shall I wear today? Thanks, C
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    Suze Orman is Coming Out

    hehehhee ES :) Breaking News on ET! :D She always looked like a bulldog anyhow..... funnnnnnnnnnny :D She lives in NJ too, perfect
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    Suze Orman is Coming Out

    http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003549559 'NYT' SUNDAY PREVIEW: Suze Orman Reveals She is the '55-year-old Virgin' By E&P Staff Published: February 23, 2007 2:20 PM ET NEW YORK In an interview for The New York Times Magazine this...
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    reuters 3000

    don't know, the firm pays for it... I think an equivalent for "home" use is Equis (by reuters).... it runs like $99 bux for FX only, and I think $100-150 for equities. It's not a "tradestation or qcharts" replacement, however.. just pure data and some charts -c
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    Cantor Fitzgerald Float

    "Their competitors" We do? Wow, that would be the first time i've heard of it... Sooo.... Could this "source" is a disgruntled worker? Amaitis isn't the best person to get along with.... Is there an axe to grind here? 2) Where's the facts? Give us an example. thx, cbk
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    reuters 3000

    howdy- just got reuters 3000 slapped on my desktop, any one know of a useful guide to getting started? Anyone use R3000?
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    Sub Prime Disaster?

    true, but you have to remember. A lot of folks that did ARMS did so at levels that were substantially lower than now. At the time, they probably couldn't even afford a 30yr mortgage. So, to reset at or near these rates, or even convert to a 30yr fixed, will put a lot of people under the water...
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    Housing Threatened by Defaults in Sub-Prime Mortgage Market

    tony soprano IS a good deal
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    u wish tik!
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    joab! :D i want my sammich!
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    Deutsche about to boot out FXCM ?

    I was shocked when I saw them using FXCM as well. To think, these guys are right down the street at 60 Wall, with all their technology prowess, money, platforms, that they had to use FXCM of all people. It made me puke. (not quite, but i did spit on their building as I walked by as a gesture of...
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