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  1. TraDaToR

    Ag trade ideas

    Just following up on this.ZM F18/H18 has moved a lot in July because H is becoming the first "brazilian discount" month. Apparently,it is a structural change due to south brazil harbors . So well, in my book, this trade is still a good one because of the low risk but F18/H18 moves won't have...
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    Ag trade ideas

    I went long ZM Z17/F18 this morning @ -1.7: -Historically low. Low risk. -F18/H18 went inverse in early July and is currently @ 0. It indicates supply can be tighter in early '18. -You never know with current drought.
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    Ag trade ideas

    Will check.
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    Major market fat fingers and flash crashes

    First AA reunion : "My name is Steve. I am here with you because I pose a systemic risk when I am drunk."
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    Major market fat fingers and flash crashes

    "The Financial Conduct Authority (then still FSA) fined Perkins £72,000 and banned him from trading for five years, noting that "Mr Perkins poses an extreme risk to the market when drunk"."
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    Commodity trading future

    Nice article from Bloomberg with the most important commodity blow-ups list... https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-12/why-commodity-traders-are-fleeing-the-business
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    X_Trader transactional pricing - NON-EXISTENT

    Please make sure that this feature, if implemented, require some confirmation message of some sort to be turned on. What is good for some might be terrible for others.
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    New TT Trader analytics

    Hello, I was quite relieved when I saw that new TT had a tool to sum all your profits and losses per instrument for a period called Trader Analytics. But it seems I rarely find the same results as trader analytics when I recalculate manually with my statement. It is 50/50. I either get the...
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    X_Trader transactional pricing - NON-EXISTENT

    Advantage futures for me. Really happy with new TT so far...
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    Spoofing becoming illegal

    http://uk.reuters.com/article/usa-cftc-citigroup-idUKL1N1JQ17L There is hope for investigated spoofers...if you can identify other bigger spoofers.
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    IB , interest on cash

    Not exactly losing 5% per annum, making 4% instead of 9% on a risky investment which definitely needs timing and some fundamental catalyst( Trump election, end of recession ). I was not the only one doing this, a good part of the HF community was long ruble since Trump got elected. As I said, I...
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    IB , interest on cash

    Spot currency. What do you mean by huge notional sizes? IB is paying 4% on RUB on RUB cash > 700000 RUB = 11800 USD. I am not a forex trader at all, so I actually don't know if IB is screwing us. It is just a way to hedge my USD exposure not a trade per se.
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    IB , interest on cash

    As a foreigner earning my living in USD, I hold a bunch of different currencies to "hedge" my USD exposure. I prefer interest paying currencies to put the carry trade on my side. For example, RUB is paying 4%, MXN 3.3%, ZAR 6% at IB. It's a lot riskier than a bond but so far the experience has...
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    Calendar spreads on TWS API?

    I was definitely getting the native spread datas through the excel DDE API. It was really long to gather all the conid ids though...
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    Here is the richest person in each U.S. state

    Petterffy is Florida's richest man...
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    First Chinese HFT case

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-23/china-fines-russian-speed-trader-101-million-issues-jail-terms "Yishidun, also known as Eastern Dragon, said that it was one of a number of foreign-owned firms that China probed after the $5 trillion market crash in 2015. An independent audit...
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    Cattle firm fined by CFTC

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cftc-mcvean-idUSKBN19C2LE "McVean and Wharton distorted other traders' views of the cattle market in 2012 and 2013 by secretly using cattle feedyards as straw purchasers for hundreds of long futures contracts, according to the CFTC. This enabled them to...
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    Flow traders

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-14/dutch-speed-trader-turns-to-currencies-after-conquering-etfs "Big Dutch financial players tend to congregate around World Trade Center Amsterdam, a large office complex south of downtown. Optiver, IMC, and Kempen are there; ABN Amro Group NV...
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    CTS bugs tonight

    Any updates on this...Were the losses covered?
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    Ex Trader

    Where did you hear that?
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