Anybody else short US 30 Bond

Most bloomberg.com articles are just horrid. try read the grain ones. most of the stuff is just WRONG.

as inverted said, get a squawk or at the very least know when stuff comes out and avoid the market when you can not hear the news.
 
Quote from smalls:

Most bloomberg.com articles are just horrid. try read the grain ones. most of the stuff is just WRONG.

as inverted said, get a squawk or at the very least know when stuff comes out and avoid the market when you can not hear the news.
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Avoiding the large pot holes in the road is crucial on news releases!
 
Thanks! Interesting trading style you have.

Quote from invertedCurve:

I sit in an office w squawk and have the bloomberg front end access. For those who don't here is today's buy back mostly 5 yr coupons as you can see.
http://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/pomo/display/index.cfm

and here is the schedule

http://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/operation_schedule.html

when you enter trading the curve newbies be careful there are a lot of people who have a lot more info than you and manipulate these markets. we as off floor non dealer traders have to try to cut through the bs and pick good levels and trade what we see not what we think.
My levels on the way down were 123.14 (retrace area of fed day), 123.105 and 123.055 so as it came down i bought em and puked (scratch to one tick loss) till it stopped then when it stopped I was long for the pop back up 12 don't get married to trades in this environment you will blow out fast.
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it is called risk control over my 7 years trading I have blown my own account out and been at different shops a couple blew out and I blew out at a couple you learn over the years not to take pipe...
 
I've been trading ZN for approx 3 years with not much success so far, but im pressing on, driving forward, learning each and everyday, exploring new ideas and new methods.

I was wondering if those who regularly follow this thread and consider themselves experts in trading treasuries would be willing to share some ideas on the best methods/techniques/tools to trade the treasury market. I understand if you don't wish to give me specifics...but some pointers & directions would be extremely helpful to me. Id be indebted to you guys if you would consider this.

Hope to hear back from you guys.

Thanks
 
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More chop until Europe closes (which should be the US close as well)
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BondTrader when does Europe close? My guess is 11 AM ET that is 4 PM London.

I went long a 124 May call for 30/64. It looks bad now. I hope this thing bottoms out soon. :eek:
 
Quote from BondTrader50:

Looking for a dip to new lows in ZN. May get down to 122120. If it doesn't happen by 11 I'm done for the day.
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You were wrong!

By 3 minutes. :)
 
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