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... look a little (1.5bp or so) cheap to the Sep 06 and Mar 07 contracts. I know that linear interpolation isn't exactly appropriate here, but is there a fundamental reason why Dec sticks out? Anything to do with tax year, timing of FOMC meetings, something else?

Mr Mayfair Penthouse wouldn't be the target audience for this sort of thing. People who are concerned about their costs are. Tradersalliance's big selling point is low costs, but they contradict that with their actions. IMHO. YMMV.

Look at a longer timespan. Only going back to where it was before: http://de.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=^VDAX&t=my&l=on&z=l&q=b&c=

Because of the overheads involved, that's why not. You can get the same office space much more cheaply elsewhere. Heck, if you're worried about people not wishing to commute for 100s of miles just go to Stockley Park or somewhere sarf of the river, or Ilford. Anywhere is cheaper than the City...

To use a Britishism: B*ll*cks. If these guys were serious about reducing costs for everyone then they wouldn't sit down in Bishopsgate, the most expensive area for office space in the entire country. Somewhere like Peterborough :D would be more like it. Ergo it ain't about reducing costs...

...said today that "downward risks" for the Euroland economy have materialized. Whoa. That's an obvious policy shift for the ECB and a clear signal that they intend to ease. Bund went up, but the Euro isn't moving down the same way. I thought exchange rates trend from one policy shift to...

I wonder what's going on in European Govt bonds lately. Two examples: UK general election early May. Labour got back in, no one surprised. Gilt rallied for a week afterwards, implying that the market HAD in fact been taken by surprise. Election in the German state of North Rhine...

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The question I've been grappling with for years is this: What is a valid stop? Small account traders trade short intraday timeframes and place tight stops in an effort to "reduce risk". More often than not those stops get taken out by pure noise, and their attempt risk reduction fails...

Kudos for admitting it, but if your education is as good as you say it is then there should be a sprinkling of maths in there somewhere. In that case, sit down and calmly look at your risk profile. Do you have an edge (a positive expectancy over a large number of trades) ? Can you manage...

Quick question here: What made you place your stop where you did?

They only bought Easyscreen a little while ago, and even if they wanted to, couldn't move everyone across in a short time. It would be a mad scramble at best. If the story about revoking licenses is true then TT have Refco by the b*lls and can squeeze. On the other hand, by using such...

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Thanks so far. Anyone here who has *recent* experience of trading spreads with them?

. (bump) Any other comments? UK awake yet ? :D

Just wondering what these guys are like for platform stability and overall service quality. I'm particularly interested in trading interest rate spreads (across the entire curve from 3mo to 10yr) on LIFFE and Eurex. I understand that they have recently or are in the process of changing...

The book on Archipelago is well crossed, 95 bid, 59.20 (yes, fifty-nine spot twenty!) offer with very little depth given the size of the IPO. Not looking good.

Yes. ZB is deep and liquid, so no probs - at stop most of the time, slipping by 1/32 couple of times a year, slipping by more than that ONCE in three years. I'm happy with that.

Well, tomorrow it'll be that time of the month again when the payroll numbers leak and a couple of people trade the move in the bonds, in the right direction no less, one or two minutes before all hell breaks loose. Or not. Opinions please ;-)

I do. Everybody else uses this-or-that proprietary software and right from the start several years ago I figured that using the same toolkit as everyone else would make it more difficult to develop and keep my edge. Since it's a very flexible tool you can do what you liek with it, from "hm...