Recent content by jerry828

@zman BT is still up & running. I visited the BT chat room two days ago.

I sent him a mail months ago, he never got back to me. Decided to file his "service" in the round archive.

PM:ed you two weeks ago and still waiting for that free trial...

"Bloombergs a reet good larf watching them explain away the tics, beating the bear markets....... next minute ooppss , the index has tanked 200 points..." It's certainly a constant source of daily amusement. They still haven't come up with an explanation about the Dow ending up ydy... :)

Hi Jaydee, and thanks for picking up the thread. What you mention here is actually one of the main reasons for my move back to Dow/S&P. The eurex market has a tendency to reverse or/and fluctuate a lot more when US open comes into play. I also found it more profitable to capitalize on these...

There's nothing like a good political brawl triggered by oil price discussions :) As for Iran's role as an oil producer, it is true that they have the 2nd largest known crude reserves after Saudi Arabia, however the refinery capacity is lacking altogether (have a look at the petrol prices in...

I am currently with Berkeley Futures, which offer eustoxx/bund with about 700 EUR margin per lot. Excellent service and execution, you will probably need a seperate data feed though (e.g. DTN).

I have decided to drop the Eurex trading and go back to Globex, as this fits my hours better. Another major reason is that I generally find the eustoxx volatility too low compared to ES/YM.

Wasn't trading much last week and missed the trend move down on Friday. This is typically the scenario when I go all in and bag 50-100p. Probably it will take another week or two before we see a trend like this, unless FOMC today changes things.

Yeah, I agree. There has been more support than I expected and basically balancing for almost 2 weeks now. Looks like we are starting to crawl lower this morning though. I had issues with taking long trades over the last months.

Yes, whatever has an affect on Globex will impact the stoxx.

jaydee, from what I can see, the attempt to the upside is not very succesful and has attracted decreasing volume. I would be suprised to see a reversal of ydy's action. I have faded the the range edge short a couple of times (one scalp and one BE+1), +6p so far. Gonna give this another hour and...

Jaydee, you will find that trend days like friday will most likely be followed by quiet balancing days unless some really extraordinary news comes out. The continuation down from friday occured on wednesday, and I expect thursday to be balancing, although DAX is trying to pull up.

Thanks for the input crude_lover, I've been looking at the DAX before but didn't pay much attention to that it's the leading contract. I'm back at the office trading again today after a few days out of town. Missed the wednesday trend day down unfortunately.