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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

Jail, more than likely.

Bloomberg says Obama's new ploy does not limit banks ability to make markets. That seems like a pretty big loophole imo.

I wonder what the comms and exchange fees came to on that. lol

I like that idea. Bot gone bonkers. That would explain how all that volume came to the market without moving price all that much.

Section F seems to rule out a block trade hitting the tape. "The Exchange shall promptly publish such information separately from the reports of transactions in the regular market."

I haven't found anything in the rules yet about how the volume for these trades are reported. I think the European exchanges put off-floor volume in the tape some time after the trades occur but I didn't think it was done in the US.

Of course that is true, but any trade of that size would have to be apportioned between the big contract and the mini or it would create an arb opportunity it seems like. So a huge trade in the es would be a part of a larger trade I would think. 100K in the es would be 0 big contract or it...

Just got off the phone with CME and they say they are looking into it. They maintain that 20k is the rule for a max position both during the RTH and after hours as well. The spike generated enough attention that CME says they were already looking into it when I called. They don't reveal the...

Position Limits Work in conjunction with existing S&P 500 position limits from es page. My question still remains. That seems like a net of 20k no matter how you slice it. What am I missing?

How is that allowed if the position limits are 20k net long or short in all months combined? http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/sandp-500_contract_specifications.html Is there such a thing as position limits?

So a reasonable question is: Does the FBI maintain databases in Russia that are completely opaque and unreachable by the Russians? Why do we need to let Interpol roam unobstructed in our country when they are by definition populated by any number of people who may not have our best interests at...

In the dead of night on December 17, 2009, President Barack Hussein Obama placed the United States of America under the authority of the international police organization known as INTERPOL, granting the organization full immunity to operate within the United States...

And then today....... So it appears that Nevada may well have sent a delegation favorable to Ron Paul to the national convention. It of course would have in no way changed the outcome of the Republican National Convention but this does highlight the lengths to which the party elite will go...

In the end the truth of the matter always seems to come out. I received this email last Tuesday.

And then the dollar was devalued by raising the official price of gold.

More from the same source. Paranoid gold bug? Maybe, maybe not. http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/kirby/2009/1015.html

Impeccably reliable sources have informed me that as recently as Sept. 30, 2009 – the last possible day of trade in the Sept. 09 gold futures – a number of well-heeled market participants “bought” substantial tonnage worth of gold futures on the London Bullion Market [LBMA] and...

As a general rule there is an inverse correlation between the number of posts by an ETer and the value of their content. Over the years I have found some useful things but you have to be prepared to wade through a lot of BS to get them. Also what might have been a good thread usually seems to...

Got to love the irony in the G-20 coming to Pittsburg.