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Get a government job.

As private employers, except those who spend $$$ lobbying, are killed by the politicians, are we all going to work for the government?

not a currency guy myself. Stering/USD bottomed at around the same level in last depression, at least from what I read.

it takes Roman Empire 13 years to collapse its monetary system.

Rice, you are the very few posters that still attracts me to visit.

I think I mean to ask do you think the market has discounted good news already given ZN keeps going up for the past two days?

John, How do you expect the treasury budget number at 1 pm CT impact trading today? Thanks.

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - A Treasury Department auction of $8 billion in new 10-year notes Tuesday afternoon meet with solid demand, including a high bid-to-cover - or bids accepted to bids received - ratio of 2.91. The auction was a reopening of an August 10-year note sale, meaning that the...

John, nice journal. On the long term chart, 4.82 seems to be very strong resistance. I saw $TNX pushed to 4.81 today and get rejected there. When you short(day trade) today, did you observe the long term resistance on $TNX?

John, I am new to this board although I have been trading ES/NQ/ER2 for a while with inconsistent performance. Do you feel that bond is less manipulated than equity indices as some people claim? Keep up the good work.

Seem to be a trend here. I interviewed with D.E. Shaw earlier and got rejected. I have good software skills, good stats, but not enough advanced maths though(Differential Equations, etc). Physics is more important and much more difficult to learn.

True, I would add geopolitics and philosophy. Maths, CS, Physics are definitely helpful.

They are far-sighted, aren't they?

Well, the key thing is you have EXACT right skillset. If you are an engineer, you would understand how difficult it is to have the EXACT right skillset. The senior you gets, the more difficult it becomes. In many cases, the knowledge and skill is simply untransferable. I guess...

In five years the US economy only created 70,000 jobs in architecture and engineering, many of which are clerical. Little wonder engineering enrollments are shrinking. There are no jobs for graduates. The talk about engineering shortages is absolute ignorance...

Generally speaking, Physics, Maths are better preparation for a career in trading. They are much harder to study also. If you know maths, physics, you can self-study most of the finance stuff. As far as Forex is concerned, do you know Bruce Kovner? He was a political science...

murray, I would think that the government inventory data has some impact on the price action.

Probably the game could continue for a couple months more as fund dress up their winners. For the most part, I have to agree with you. What would be the hot sector for the next year? That would be the $64000 question.

Thanks for sharing. Fatrat. I was very much like you. Hardcore engineer. I have changed since I figured out pretty much the same thing although not as clear as you are. I came to work just to collect paycheck since bu*t is all management do in big companies. I am trying to...

My last job was outsourced. I managed to find another one. However I am totally burned out. Tech industry is basically f**ked up except for a few like GOOG or EBAY.