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what do you get if you take delivery on ES futures? i'm just trying to figure out how to buy the s&p 500 without buying SPY and paying the associated management fees. Or is there a website that shows the % makeup of each stock so that you could just buy them up individually yourself to get...

most people went to liberal arts schools and got liberal arts degrees at 30k+/yr because they are stupid.

I was born in Texas but had to move when I was young (military). I have yet to meet a better bond trader (have worked with approximately 100) than me so that goes to support your theory.

so the only way our debts can be paid is if we inflate our way out of them? i think it'd be less trouble if we just defaulted on everything and started over. the music will eventually stop, and their are only two ways for that to happen in my opinion. we can either pay off all the debt that...

i'm a spread trader so i only look at relative volatility- yesterday the fv was surprisingly weak relative to the rest of the curve, today it was surprisingly strong compared to the rest of the curve

i trade a lot of the fv but i also am entirely a spread trader so i don't know what to tell you if scalping is your goal. since it trades quarter tics it often times can lead a quick move but is also more aggressive to bounce from highs and lows to a few prices away. an awful lot of the size...

they are counting the absolute value of each contract- i agree with you it is a terrible mistake, but then again who expects anything smart of journalists or politicians?

when i looked into it for myself to trade all the treasury futures at member rate fees it broke down this way: just to trade my own money i had to buy an associate seat (80k ish last i checked) to trade my along with other people's money i would have to buy a seat and purchase 1700 shares...

these are my thoughts- get it now, pay the taxes and get it out of the system so they can't take it from you later

amazing how the greediest generation in memorable history (the baby boomers) has managed to break the back of the american economy- and even as it fails they demand more, more, more!

the system i have used has worked wonders for me. risk 5%/day with 2ish outliers per year where it blows through -5% and you end up losing 8-9% make a minimum of 1.25% on the other days with a general average of 2% on winning days throw in the towel if you are anywhere near your +5%...

wife's family lives all around and she doesn't want to leave them (she also has a good job downtown she doesn't want to leave) wish i could move back to texas though

yeah it shouldn't take that long at all

i'm still buying and i'll be accumulating for the next 25 years.

wouldn't blackstone's ipo be more of an identifier of the last recession- i feel like they went public like a month before the top and are much smarter money than tech companies.

anyone know what this change showed?

i risk 5% / day with a max drawdown ever of 27% (sept 08-mar09) and in my best month ever i made 37% so that seems acceptable to me. i just say that if i suffer a 30% drawdown i'll reduce my size by 30% and if i suffer a further 30% drawdown (bringing me to 49% of original size) i'll lower my...

the thing is they won't care when the rest of the world falters because yes all paper money will become worthless, all paper debt will become worthless- the only thing left of value will be natural resources. right now they are perpetuating the myth of the value of these paper devices while...

that is true but if you think of it in end game results then all fiat currencies could be viewed as simply something that will eventually be = to zero, and thus ignored since in the endgame access to resources will be the only thing that matters. so at current state every year china increases...

i think china has decided it is in their best interest to bail everyone out one after the other to maintain the status quo as long as possible. i mean think about it- in the current status quo- china is basically the world's saver and while they are putting the vast majority of their...