Wow! HPQ up 6%. And the S&P futures are down a tick. NASDAQ futures down a point. Who cares about HPQ?
We had a small bounce when bonds closed (which is when they like to start the pm rally), but it didn't last.
Short the S&Ps. That's what I am doing.
I agree with this, but what are the chances this (flat/fair tax) will happen? Not likely, but I can always hope.
Anybody know where I can get weekly crude oil prices going back about 50 years? I can find monthly data going back to 1946 and daily going back...
"The one prevailing evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or...
Full payment must be made for all call and put purchases. Covered call writing is allowed, but the underlying stock must be available and is then...
I only trade the SPX and 10-year US Treasury. Maybe I'll expand in the future.
Now the "hedgies" have to start raiding the bond market.
I do trade futures in an IRA at IB, which is why I answered above. There are absolutely no issues with trading futures. The only issue with IRA...
One of the keys to any system is having the right position size. While being short bonds the couple of days hurts, my position is small enough so...
If I told you, I'd have to kill you. I have a quant system using both fundamentals and technicals. The details are a secret (so those of you...
Also short ZN. Got hit the last couple of days, but the previous 5 weeks sure were a good run. I think the ZN should drop some more....
You can trade futures from an IRA. But you can't short stocks.
But the "this time it's different" crowd can be right for quite a long time. This low long-term interest rate environment has been "different"...
I use DDE to load nine tickers and four account pages (connecting to four open TWS instances) into an Excel spreadshset. I never have problems...
And as a result, the 10-year yield will go down some more....
But how do you use the Java API to get the data into Excel?
Today it doesn't feel good. But it's worked since I put on the positions (went short bonds on 7/1 and short stocks on 7/29).
If bonds start moving up (and I don't mean a one-day move), then stocks should rise as well. But if bonds start down again, stocks will most...
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