International markets traders banter

[skc]

Liquidity providers....

Thks.

Post Office begins selling mortgages in branches

http://www.finextra.com/News/Fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=23968

Thats cool. What could possibly go wrong? :

Here's one postal service not doing too well.

http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2012/08/09/news/doc502410992b714784096375.txt

 

[Joules MM1]

cny...trade balance ......? zip down......

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MarketWatch
Bulletin

China's July trade surplus prints well below forecast, as exports rise 1% vs. expected 8%
08/09/2012 11:04:06 PM

 

[Trembling Hand]

Hahah got the HSI on a string today.

 

[CanOz]

Well done, nice bit of patience too...

Back to 60 again...

 

[tech/a]

Hahah got the HSI on a string today.

View attachment 48556View attachment 48555

Sweet
Thats a lot of ticks for you T/H.
In one trade.

 

[CanOz]

Who says ya can't pick the highs and lows...

Nice job to get a fill at those points though!

CanOz

 

[Trembling Hand]

Thats a lot of ticks for you T/H.
In one trade.

That not the best trade today in ticks but,

Markets moving and you have the perfect entry, run with it.

 

[Trembling Hand]

CanOz you been looking at the amount of bergs on the Seng today? Strangely the volume is down.

 

[CanOz]

CanOz you been looking at the amount of bergs on the Seng today? Strangely the volume is down.

Only three showed today, sorry four, but I'm only set at 30 or greater (i.e. there needs to be a minimum of 30 traded)

You're saying there seem to be fewer bergs?

CanOz

 

[Trembling Hand]

Only three showed today, but I'm only set at 30 or greater.

You're saying there seem to be fewer bergs?

CanOz

Nah heaps. Everything I hit just sits there same size!

 

[CanOz]

Nah heaps. Everything I hit just sits there same size!

Have you got a rough idea of how much size typically gets absorbed?

I should go through and replay the day (hopefully today or tomorrow) with different settings and get a rough idea of the best size setting to use to pick up the icebergs...I've never really tried to set it up properly on the HSI because of its flittery (new word) nature.

Curious to see what you saw yesterday.

CanOz

 

[CanOz]

Set on 10, we pick up 16 bergs for the day. That is the inside bid/ask gets hit with size greater than 10 and yet remains the same as it was before the order hit the bid/ask.

There was a little cluster around the time you asked me about it though....

Cheers,


CanOz

 

[sinner]

Hey TH,

Wondering if you wouldn't mind posting a year or two worth of A/D data for the HSI?

 

[CanOz]

What a morning on the HSI...drops like a rock to find a bottom at 20k (20001 to the the tick) and then bounces a little before catching a massive bid back to 20145 in 10 minutes...Sheesh...

This market is just crazy...

CanOz

 

[Punta]

What a morning on the HSI

This market is just crazy...

CanOz

Love the irrationality of the HSI. Logged on this evening to find that my algo caught a piece of both those moves - happy days...

 

[sinner]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2012/08/12/china-is-running-out-of-money/

When shops close to avoid predatory officials, we know China’s coffers are almost empty. And to make matters worse, the country’s financial problems will be harder to solve now that the country’s balance of payments has turned negative. The net outflow in the second quarter of this year was the first since 1998. The country’s reserves also dropped in Q2. We should not be surprised: there was perhaps $110 billion of capital flight during that period, and the gusher outflow looks like it continued in June. Chinese citizens are losing confidence fast.

 

[Trembling Hand]

Hey TH,

Wondering if you wouldn't mind posting a year or two worth of A/D data for the HSI?

I've only got it for ASX and US. they pretty much all show the same patterns.

 

[Trembling Hand]

These bots that stabilise indexes suk!!

Rocket scientist go back to NASA :321:

 

[CanOz]

Lots of bergs...

 

[Trembling Hand]

Hahah! take that nerds!