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Propping up my feet and hanging out
I've been lurking for a while so I figured it's time to pull up a seat and start participating in the community. I'm a long time retail options trader with experience in developing spread trading systems. I hope to utilize this forum to network with like minded spirits that have been down the path...
Trading Logistics - Can you trade bond/equity spreads
Can you trade bond and equity spreads (aka long/short debt of a company and short/long the same company's equity) out of a personal account?
Spread trading
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Time to Look at Silver
I'm not sure I've ever made two trade recommendations in the same week, but you guys should be aware of this opportunity if you're not already. If you're looking for a long term trade with the potential to return a double, triple, or even more over the next year, you need to take a look at silver....
Scam Science: The Short and Distort
Short sellers get a bad rep when they really shouldn't. I think it's because 90% of the population doesn't understand how you can sell something you don't own, or how you can make money by the value of something dropping. The way I used to explain it to people is that there is only one way to make...
Goldman on the Irish Bailout...European Contagion
The Irish bailout being unveiled this week will determine the performance of both the Euro and the global equity markets. Irish and Portuguese bond spreads had been widening over the past four weeks, since Ireland again became the focus of bearish investors. Sources claim that the current bailout...
Volume gone, volatility flat - so what does everyone think can solve this?
In nearly all markets (and I'm talking from an equity and index derivatives angle mainly, personally), volume is at a trickle, volatility is flat, spreads are tight as a gnat's arse, and there seems to be no hope on the horizon. Market makers are finding it very hard (and if they disappear, along...
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