Big $$$ Eurodollar Spread

Eurodollars been my favorite market for years doing outright, but had to learn other ways to trade them for seven years of being so close to 100. If I was younger, I would only learn to trade spreads, best returns based on margins, skip the day trading Indexes, have a job doing something you love and do trading long term-less fees, have a life outside of trading.
 
victorycountry said:
Hi bone, do you hedge your trade (by setting stop loss) when you initiate long-short positions?
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Yes, we set both a profit target AND a stop-loss at the time of trade entry. Quite important. We have a historical trading range-based system to determine those levels. I teach a complete system.

Also, Spread Construction is a really really big deal. That's where you find the opportunities.
 
This is just a put fly, nothing too glamorous... In the past couple of days, similar stuff has printed, also in decent size, trying to pin the strike which corresponds to one Fed hike by June.

What one needs to consider is that, most of the time, these things don't work, since they're akin to lottery tickets. This one has seemingly worked out (although hard to tell for sure, without knowing the strikes), but that doesn't mean it was the best way to be short the rates mkt, by any stretch of the imagination. Thus I am not really sure that all this excitement is justified.
 
lawrence-lugar said:
A 59% return in about nine months -- Good return, but not great o_Oo_O
Well, I guess it may be considered great...since that's kind of alot of money in play. and not just some random, small retail acct
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Not to mention the max drawdown ...
 
lawrence-lugar said:
A 59% return in about nine months -- Good return, but not great o_Oo_O
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59% not great! If I make 30%-50% in 1 year I am ecstatic. Personally I think this is why so many fail they seriously overtrade and over leverage. Root cause of problem is trading a small account.
 
Surprise said:
Not to mention the max drawdown ...
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The max drawdown on this trade is just the total premium paid. It's inherently limited downside and the total amount of premium paid is low. It's very much like a lottery ticket.
 
Martinghoul said:
The max drawdown on this trade is just the total premium paid. It's inherently limited downside and the total amount of premium paid is low. It's very much like a lottery ticket.
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As i understand the premium was $13 million .
 
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