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Learn to spread trade - the margins are way less. For example, you get an 85% performance bond margin credit for trading the first month crude oil versus the second month crude oil. Look at the 'performance bond margin' section for any exchange's contract specs. In the bond margin...

There is no tax advantage to trading under an LLC. You can claim the same deductions as a sole proprietor. You form an LLC to shield your personal assets from tort litigation claims. Seriously. You want a lower tax bracket? Trade futures instead of stocks. 1256 Blended Capital Gains.

Good Primer: http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/files/TreasurySwap_SpreadOverview.pdf June Ratios: http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/files/ICS-Ratios.pdf Again, some caution - newbs can get way way over their head in a hurry here. Mistakes are expensive with...

"fixed income trading by the largest investment banks- this is exactly what they were talking about." That is a fact. They are all monster spread traders - even when they are making markets in exotics, they are laying off the risk and collecting the spread differential. I know guys at a...

You still have a very intact trendline channel - too soon for the bears to be declaring victory. You need some legitimate technical price action to justify calling a top.

Outside of the energy complex as of Friday's close it was the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index and the Canadian Dollar. ( Nymex WTI April Contract )

April Nymex WTI vs. April ICE Brent: Nymex WTI April-May Calendar Spread:

April Future: April-May Calendar Spread:

"I would suggest you find some good introductory material on trading the yield curve." X 2 Careful there, cowboy.

Two years into his Presidency, the economy under Ronald Reagan added well over 5 million jobs. (and that was thirty years ago, when interest rates were over three times what they are now, Arab Oil embargoes, and hyper-inflation). Two years into his Presidency, the economy under Barack Obama...

No, you want to stay with a single member LLC if you can help it. With a multi-member LLC, you have to name specific individuals holding LLC ownership and you have to name corporate officer positions in your registration along with their roles. Illinois at least wants you to state their...

"Also the IRS looks at a single member LLC as simply gaming the system, they can say your a sole proprietor." I would have to politely disagree. As a sole proprietor, you can take the same deductions for business expenses as an LLC. Again, the only true advantage for an LLC is shielding...

Monday commentary from Lloyd's Shipping Rates subscription via Reuters: "VLCC rates have been volatile in recent months due to a supply overhang. Average VLCC rates plunged last October as the end of a speculative trading play, which at one point last year involved an estimated 100 million...

There is no tax advantage to trading under an LLC versus declaring sole proprietorship income on a 1040 without any formal business structure. You use an LLC to shield your personal assets from legal tort claims. The only tax advantage you can find for trading outside of the 'ordinary...

This is a lucid and brilliant synopsis: This is a slow burn retribution for China unilaterally deciding in 1994 to de-value their currency by 50% in one day, which is what ignited the entire cheap labor for crappy goods manufacturing arbitrage we are now engaged in.

Exactamundo. Spot on.

I don't trade the SPY, so that is delayed data. My futures exchanges are all real time. If I showed an ES chart it would be real time. I start off my clients training with them in the 'delayed' data mode, because it's only $5 per month, and for training and paper trading purposes against me...

Eurex curve is priced 'fairly', but Eurex had to enact some pretty drastic fixes over the years - for example, there were incidents where bank desks would corner the market in the CTS issues and blow out the other basis traders. Under those circumstances, the futures curve and the underlying...

futures curve = forward calendar spread curve look at the futures curve studies on a Bloomberg terminal.

I take it they are not scalping ES based on tic data and a MACD divergence study on TradeStation.