YT - I like your coffee put spread. 4x reward/risk. Settled at 240pts. Question is: Do I have any edge/value added in saying Coffee breaks...
Yep Rtrad, I'm a broker , institutional. Good trading the range in the coffee. Might as well while the range holds. Hopefully your back month...
guess it's a no no in US listed mkts In some cases, the executing broker may have sufficient order flow from its clients that it is able, where...
from MF's 10k. note section on Principal trading... When we execute a client order on an agency basis, we typically direct the order to an...
Major quality concerns out of Ivory Coast, supply deficits, and a very nice technical graph, sure, screams long. But I prefer to get long...
Yep, that's exactly what I'm insinuating. Methinks these broker desks which ultimately are subgroups within the futures brokerage, can dish out...
On another note MF global stock got killed. That 1bln + bank line coming due in December got people spooked and a 150mm convert deal ain't gonna...
Got lited out of my cocoa spreads today at 69. It was a good trade, but in retrospect probably should have constructed it in a nearby month. 45...
Cocoa felt tired indeed. What could suck is that we could see a pretty vicious pullback and still keep the uptrend intact. Rtrader, where's...
Very interesting observation that Jul 09 is 1.00 premium to Dec 09. Why not bullspread some 08 corn then?
So let's see. You sold October at a 730 pt premium to August Cattle right? Basically saying the back months are pricing in too much corn...
I got long another Cocoa 2800/2900 Call spread at 60 pts today. I actually made em 60/65 and got hit. Seems the pit is a seller of this spread or...
Rtrader, everything is good. Yeah cocoa traded nicely and the COT today shows specs adding 4,000 odd of length and IMHO still have powder to run...
Hey YT So with July expiring at 10.54 , looks like you're taking home 68 pts on your Sugar Straddle yes? Did you close before expiration...
Even better. sell the 3100/3200 Sep cocoa call spread at 30 pts, reduce net cost of strategy to 15.5 pts and have a profit range b/w 2900-3100 ?
One thought to hedge my 2800/2900 call spread in Sep Cocoa could be in fact to turn it into a Condor by selling the 3000/3100 Call spread. If I...
YT looked at your 10/11/12 October Sugar Butterfly. Looks like a debit of 18 pts. My question though is with the underlying at 11.54 this spread...
cocoa testing 3,000. I think we take it out and continue to charge higher.
With September OJ at 117.35 you could Sell 115 put for 645 pts Sell 115 call for 880 pts Buy 105 put for 255 pts Buy 125 call for 505 pts...
In August Coffee Options: with 30 days to expiration: A short 125/130/135 butterfly settled at 410pts A short 130/135/140 butterfly...
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