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japanese bonds ?

changed the rules on PDT ? it used to be one would wait 5 days until being allowed to trade stocks again if the account size fell below $25 K I am starting to believe that one must wait a longer time or even cannot trade stocks at all if classifed as a PDT until one's account is...

if one can get a squawk box type of bid / offer from the notes or bonds these days? the 2 services I know of doing this in the Spoos do not do bonds anymore

.... q charts sucks ... its free so you get what you pay for e signals data shows the ES / NQ data just fine for that time period ...

could have traded the futures overnight with a WIFI laptop between rounds ... gosh 6:30 am I did not know it was changed to last night ... maybe next time dude :)

sounds like the movie trading places ... or turtle dreams part III :)

from www.bondtalkpro.com "even though the Fed committed itself to an accommodative stance, it did not commit to keeping the fed-funds rate at 1.0%. For the bond market, the obvious vigor now brewing in the economy is leading many to believe that the Fed will be forced to raise interest...

equity prop shops ? futures prop shops? desk traders for banks? locals on the floor? CTA's? Hedge Fund Managers?

delayed times for depth on IB platform for YM and bond complex ... however I do see a problem in getting depth of field for mini gold and silver at times

that trendline after hours ... of course the retail sales numbers could change everything when they come out

hours , or includes all overnight and post trading periods ? <Some 80 percent of CBOT financial futures turnover is now done via a/c/e. >

I made 1200 % on my money in 2000 doing ARB on a small account ... the type of ARB mentioned in the Mark R article in Futures however with decimalization and the end of the bubble market those days are over ... one can still make a living at this type of ARB but at a smaller...

of futures magazine there is an interview with a gentleman who did alot more arb than I ever could ... but claims to have been highly rewarded for taking the risk on the arbs

there are still opportunities but nothing like a few yrs ago

that nowadays the best floor traders in the CBOT somehow are able to trade open outcry and arb the electronic perhaps that is an edge too strong to overcome for a upstairs screen trader trying to scalp here and there :(

any chance you can give us daytraders some hints on what works / doesn't work for you in bonds and or what indicatorsyou look at in the bonds? ( see bond Futures thread ) <I traded illiquid NYSE markets and now very liquid bonds futs markets >

depthview? is this for stocks or futures? how many levels of depth do you want to view?:)

they are definately not illiquid ! I agree with you on the extreme choppiness except when they are trending intraday :p

finding bonds easier to trade intraday than e mini stock indices please post some comments under bond futures thread thanks !

does anyone here make better $ daytrading the bonds / notes as opposed to the sp500 / nas100 / dow futures? I have been finding the bond complex much more difficult to trade , perhaps due to the volatility and ranges being so high recently guess I am in over my head :mad: