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I would like to nominate this thread for "most petty thread" award.

Listen, honestly, I am a nuclear engineer by training and I hold several international patents for radiation shielding design. If all there was to it was math, then every math major and physicist and engineer who could solve for an equation and develop a proof would be a trading genius -...

If you stay in this business long enough, you come to the realization that trading as a profession attracts alot of very smart people - and that your perceptions about what works and what does not work is, in fact, really quite limited and in fact is generally ego-centric.

And my thanks to you for butting in on the OP and exhibiting some real knowledge on the topic. So exhausting to argue with retail punters and SIM rangers who are experts on all topics trading. I am astonished and quite pleased that the discourse has been academic up to this point.

And that I do better than anyone else in the business so I have been told - and that methodology is strictly proprietary for me and my clients. My apologies in advance.

"The Democrats are simply against the idea that the burden of fiscal reform should be placed solely on the backs of the most vulnerable while leaving the financially advantaged entirely unaffected. " Code: buy your voting constituency with other people's money. Just like the Dream Act...

True so true. Brilliant. Every one of them it would appear.

Did you know that the Canadian Dollar and the WTI Crude Oil contract have a 94.6 % positive correlation ?

Politicians are pathetic. Every one of them, narcissistic whores. Dems, Repubs, Indies, Commies. Universal Sluts.

The key factor when comparing the two legs would be statistical fitness. In addition to a high degree of positive statisitical relationship between spread legs, traditional spread traders also usually demand a high degree of positive fundamental relationship between the legs. An example...

Ummm... Democrats had complete control of all three branches of government for 2-1/2 years. They could have done anything they wanted in terms of individual and corporate tax rates, loopholes, credits, and spending. Anything. Dems never submitted a budget during that timeframe. We still...

Fascinating that the predictable participants/hypocrites in this thread never seemed to show pause or discretion regarding their use of the term 'Teabagger'.

You're right. We'd be $30T in the hole and in 12 wars given the debt and conflict escalation we have seen since his inaugeration.

Gallup July 12, 2011 U.S. Debt Ceiling Increase Remains Unpopular With Americans More are concerned about higher level of spending than risk of economic crisis by Lydia Saad PRINCETON, NJ -- Despite agreement among leaders of both sides of the political aisle in Washington that...

Ummm... Democrats had complete control of all three branches of government for 2-1/2 years. They could have done anything they wanted in terms of individual and corporate tax rates, loopholes, credits, and spending. Anything. Dems never submitted a budget during that timeframe. We still...

Neither Romney nor Obama do anything for me in that regard. Actually in several regards. Fair.

From Crain's Chicago Business: CHICAGO, IL --- December 14, 2009 --- HTG Capital Partners, a 100-person trading firm based in Chicago, acquired Kingstree Trading Group, which at one time accounted for 25% of stock-index futures trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The acquisition by...

My preference is for the manual global re-center. The Eurodollar spread ladders never need to be re-centered during the course of a typical day. The Crack Spread ladders need to be re-centered every 30 seconds. Gold vs. Silver: every 30 seconds. LME Lead vs. Zinc: once per day...