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You also get a haircut on treasury postions and futures positions. The longer the time to maturity, the bigger the haircut. The haircut is minor if you have a basis position on (e.g. long 10 yr cash, short 10 yr futures), but the haircut is increased if you hedge the cash against something...

You only need one person...mr double of course. :eek: :D

FNYS, hands down. I agree that if the ETF market-making job is with SIG you should take it, but it obviously isn't since you said it's a small firm. Floor trading will not be around much longer and most places won't hire former floor traders because it is difficult to adapt to the screen...

Agreed. This thread was started 5 and a half months into the year. To be up $25K, one only has to average $4,545/month. Not impressive to say the least. If I don't make that in a day, it's a bad day.

Ha ha! I've heard that before.

I believe everything you said until the "i woke up" part. :D

15 million in margin or in notional principal? If it's the latter then I don't see why it wouldn't be true. For example, 15 treasuries is not that big of a position. Also, I suppose it depends on what he's doing. Is he putting on a spread trade, or an outright position? Is he trading...

You can trade with yourself on the CME Globex. I'm pretty sure they flag your account and if it happens enough times they'll say something to you. I'm not sure, but I imagine it is illegal.

http://www.tradingtechnologies.com/xtrader.asp

Sorry, I forgot to mention the breaks in my previous post. SGX takes two breaks. Starting next week (after we go to daylight savings time) SGX will be open for trading at the following times in EST: 7:45p.m.-10:15p.m. 11:15p.m.-2:30a.m. 3:30a.m.-7:00a.m.

Fair enough. I don't know many people that use 6 second charts. Whatever works..

NYMEX ClearPort has halted trading due to a technical issue at the exchange. NYMEX ClearPort® Trading will be in a pre-opening state at 12:45 PM EST and will open at 1:00 PM EST.

Candlesticks are fixed lengths of time. By the time your 15 minute or 5 min candle is filled, you've missed the move. The Nikkei sits for a little while, then makes violent breakouts -- a hundred points in a few seconds some times. If you don't believe it is easier to see momentum with a...

So start a journal

$2 billion is cheap

AHAHAHAHAHA! This is completely a momentum trade when trading during the hours that the cash index is open. (during the [U.S.] day it's a completely different animal and candlesticks are even more useless). The best way to see momentum is to look at a ladder. A chart wont' tell you that.

Wow! I guess you need to define "up day" and "down day." LOL The elite never cease to amaze me. :p

http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html

Oh, I get it. If you make money then the game is positive sum. Duh, why didn't I think of that. Oh, I know because that has nothing to do with this. C'mon people this thread has been around for more than a month. It's 74 pages long. Everything that can be said has been said SEVERAL times...

Or trade currency futures. Scalp all you want there. Less counterparty risk, and fewer ways for the broker to screw you.