Quote from Maverick74:
Where are all these people that said Eurex was going to put the Chicago exchanges out of business?
Quote from Pabst:
As Pabst said 10 weeks ago.
Pabst
Elite Member
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1720
12-13-03 01:23 PM
Pretty desperate move. Eurex giving their product away. LOL. In the mean time seats in Chicago are in serious uptick mode. Eurex will never make it in the U.S.
Quote from Maverick74:
Sorry Pabst, I have you beat.
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=190912&highlight=eurex#post190912
I was one of the first on this board to call it. I got a lot of heat at the time but it's awfully quiet now. LOL.
Quote from Pabst:
Huh my post is from DECEMBER! Your's is from last month.
Also this is what I had to say in SEPTEMBER!
Pabst
Elite Member
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1723
09-17-03 09:25 PM
I wouldn't ring the CBOT's death knell yet. The Treasury will not be enthused about a foreign exchange being the primary futures market for U.S. government debt. Also both Cantor and the major player owned BrokerTec (Goldman, JPM, ect.) have failed to attract institutional participation. The major source of liquidity in electronically traded financial futures is still from CBOT and CME members who's fees will most certainly be slashed to within striking distance of Eurex's thirty cents.
Someone knows something. Rather than collapsing in the last few months at the imminent threat of Eurex, CME stock has doubled and CBOT membership prices are on three year highs. Viva' Chicago!
Quote from Pabst:
Holy smokes!! Kick ass call Mav!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quote from Maverick74:
Pabst, I took so much heat for that call. You would think I was proposing to end trading altogether. But I stood my ground and held my prediction. Of course all those people who were attacking me have disappeared, but what else is new, this is ET afterall.