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Well, if you are adding to a shitty spread, and you get cute by adding legs, that usually just makes things much worse. I cannot imagine very many (if any) scenarios where a trader is underwater in a two-legged spread, and that by adding a leg or two makes things better. It is true that adding...

Well, if you want to fade a market for size and wear them... do it on your own nickel. Unless you have an arbitrage or spread going any firm or desk will have security escort your ass right out the front door. Those guys do not last. You are expected to create alpha returns - using your...

Nope, energy (at least the way the Nymex and IPE pit brokers quoted spreads) is bassackwards from rates and grains. Another market idiosyncracy (rates and energy are full of them). But, since the world is now electronic, it's however you want it to be. I just quote the first leg as being...

Ummm, I still have not seen a post yet in this thread from a trend advocate who did not also admit that fading markets is also a profitable strategy. Same cannot be said for the faders. Almost like class warfare. And how is it that market fundamentals are somehow extremely late getting...

Winner, winner, chicken dinner !

This is all you need to know about professional politicians and how completely insulated they are from reality: D.C. Housing Market Highest Performing in the Country: Report Sunday, Jul 10, 2011...

Yep, and they are without exception the bitchiest guys in the room. Hard drinking and bitter. Pure joy to be around. The ones you steer your wife away from during the firm's annual holiday party when it comes time to find seating for dinner.

Pat Caddell On Obama: "Does This Guy Have Any Idea What He Is Doing?" http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/07/11/pat_caddell_on_obama_does_this_guy_have_any_idea_what_he_is_doing.html

Dallas Mercantile Exchange. You heard it here first.

Oh, he surged those, exponentially expanded the drone strike programs, and then went out and started two more unitlaterally from scratch. Obama is a more aggressive warlord than Bush - at least Bush had 9/11 as a poor excuse.

Yep, and this is where the cliche and platitude kicks in: If you can engineer your strategy into something consistent and repeatable, then the worm will turn for you. Some traders have it within their core DNA to fight the market, others would rather be on the same side as what they percieve...

Why more Americans pay no income tax TAX DAY April 15, 2010|By Scott A. Hodge, Special to CNN If "taxes are the price we pay for civilized society," to quote Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., then April 15 is the day that bill comes due for every working American. But that is no...

If Durkin and Obama sell the Futures Industry down the river on this one, you will see the Dallas Mercantile Exchange announced prior to the November '12 elections.

Complete brilliance. Well said, sir.

So much for my quaint little timid plain vanilla missionary position Shaz-Bobl-Bund Butterfly chart.

Apparently this thread has degenerated to the point where the Moderator has long gone missing in action. Mod, please change thread title to: This Thread = CRAP Time to euthanize this abortion to logical discourse.

Agreed, almost sounds like a 'Texas Hedge'.

I have several clients clearing NewEdge, minimum account balance is $3M. If you wanted that type of scale in terms of product line and access without that kind of capital committment Man Financial would also be a choice provided you could fund the account to a level attractive enough for them...

This ongoing pissing contest has given cause for me to unsubscribe. You boys have fun, but having to tab through twenty pages in order to find a posted chart or any legit discussion regarding the thread's title and subject matter is rather unfortunate.