International markets traders banter

[Trembling Hand]

Was/still is a great source TH.

So you're the one.

[Timmy]

So you're the one.

LOL!

I tell my kids to visit on their iPhones too, sort of like pump and dump.

[Starcraftmazter]

Apple shorts:
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imo it really doesnt tell you much. After paying $$$ for accurate data: short interest, %lending available, %of lending used, etc, it didn't seem like there was any edge.

Its a very tricky area. Even with paid data :P

Cheers for that graph.

[Trembling Hand]

BOJ Monetary Policy Statement not doing the rally any favours.

[nomore4s]

Bit of a down move in the last 10min or so, caught some of it but not enough.

Be interesting to see where the HSI heads into the close.

[Trembling Hand]

Bit of a down move in the last 10min or so, caught some of it but not enough.

Be interesting to see where the HSI heads into the close.

Going on recent form a fall into the DAX open to test the days lows then a rocket up to take out the days highs. Just another day on the psycho Seng

Currencies all just lost a day of gains in 20 mins. And Nikkei about to go red.

[notting]

Markets rally as Greece is finally under control for the moment!
Yeah right.
I guess there's no need to worry about this either Spanish Standoff Over Budget Cuts Continues

[Trembling Hand]

LOL!! And the DAX gaps up to a new high!!

[sinner]

LOL!! And the DAX gaps up to a new high!!

Is she leading, or following?



My usual hypothesis is more like 'cheap EUR = strong DAX', so I wouldn't just short 7000 off that chart but I thought it was pretty interesting.

[Timmy]

Retail sales in 10 mins ... FOMC later.

[sinner]

EURUSD pretty heavy tonight, but I was convinced there'd be a few pips long before anyone would get a chance for a clean 1.305 bid and managed to execute a good sized long exiting up into to 1.3066 after a couple of smaller spooked entries. Not a bad week so far 4 winners 3 losers (incl the spooked entries) with consistent execution of ideas.

[Starcraftmazter]

Markets don't like retail figures because it's bad for money printing?

[Timmy]

Markets don't like retail figures because it's bad for money printing?

Better than expected retail figs so from a trading perspective I'd say thats it spot on. Enough to spook a few longs and get them out. As I type the ES has just moved above the level it was at on the release so that trade is over, but was a goodie for the past coupla hours.

(Pls note my comments are from a day/v.short term trading perspective. Longer term players going to have different perspective)

ps/ Having said all this the business inventory numbers were higher than consensus, so mkt friendly in terms of increasing the potential for QE3 (is that the number we are up to now LOL?) ... The games we play ...

[Sam Collins]

Dax smashes through 7000, SPI actually seems fairly strong too. Quite a night! Crude being crude, along with some nice 500 lot spoofing all the way up.

EDIT: LOL the farkin Dax, spikes through 7000 by 0.40% then straight back down and pokes below 7000 by 20 ticks!

[Trembling Hand]

EURUSD pretty heavy tonight.

Nutz night. But whats with AUD, CAD, etc going the wrong way(nowhere)?

PMs going south make sense but other commods?

[sinner]

Nutz night. But whats with AUD, CAD, etc going the wrong way(nowhere)?

PMs going south make sense but other commods?

The drill these days seems to be high asset class/class component correlation in down markets and low correlation in up markets.

[sinner]

Real tight in Tokyo today for AUDUSD, even if you catch the move there doesn't seem to be lots of meat in it. I was hoping for some more juice after the poor consumer sentiment and housing starts numbers.

A loser and two winners for +5 total, that'll do, might try and pick up a few more in London. Wednesday London my favourite trading session of the week!

[Gringotts Bank]

TT are developing a platform for traders that have no coding experience to create algos, called ADL I think(I think it's in beta stages now). Looks really interesting, it's all visual based, don't need to code(although I'm sure you can as well) and it seems pretty intense too as in you can do quite a lot. It might make things interesting, I know a lot of guys are pretty excited about it, so there could be a algo-mad period where guys that don't really have much idea are creating these crazy algos that might not work, could get some weird things going on......maybe


EDIT: Haha getting off topic straight away, my bad. *ahem* Asia up between 1-2%. There we go.

Sam, TT = Turbo Trader?

I'm a member of TT, but haven't seen anything about algos?

[Trembling Hand]

Sam, TT = Turbo Trader?

I'm a member of TT, but haven't seen anything about algos?

https://www.tradingtechnologies.com/

Mostly a prop and insto futs frontend.

[skc]

Would it be right to say that, the positions that pushed MF Global to bankruptcy have now all comeback?