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Commodities hammered, rumours there may be a commodity hedge fund that blew up and the predators have come in to help finish them off
 
FOMC minutes were a bit of a surprise to the downside. Lots of talk about not just if QE is ending, but HOW.
 
F me! Not often you have the pleasure of hitting your daily stop in the first 40 secs of the day!!

Welcome back hey!
 
HA! Not often you get to tickle it back to green in a few minutes of play either! Pheww




I need a holiday.
 
Ridiculous open.

For those trading Asian markets, what are the major ones to keep an eye on for lag/lead indicators?

If I'm watching Taiwan for example (STW), I'll keep an eye on the hang seng, the kospi, the SPI and the nikkei.

Any other I've missed?

chop fest at the moment btw.
 
Shanghai is a little on the nose this morning....lol...
 
kid hustlr said:
Is that the German Bund in there? You are keen.

Cheers mate.
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I gotta say there isn't a huge amount of lead from anything at the moment. Open and re-opens at lunch times give you a bit but its pretty wild and wooly the last month or so.
 
Trembling Hand said:
I gotta say there isn't a huge amount of lead from anything at the moment. Open and re-opens at lunch times give you a bit but its pretty wild and wooly the last month or so.
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Yeah ok, I'm just trying to get a feel for how the all intertwine.

I do feel a lot more comfortable if I'm leaning towards a short on the STW and then I look across and K200, NK and the HSI are all pushing their lows though.

This is a sample size of about 4 trades mind you.
 

Jeesuz that seller on the Seng is vicious. 2000 contracts in a minute.

Then follows it up with 3000 3 minutes later! :1zhelp:

Talk about manipulation!
 
I'm not quite sure what it is that they've been smoking in Deutschland lately, but my grail's copped one hell of a hiding this past week.

Shame on you DAX! How dare you do mean and nasty things to my precious Grail! How's an honest trader to earn a dishonest Euro when you misbehave so? Naughty, naughty DAX! It's about time that you started behaving yourself because I am now keeping a much closer eye on you! Consider yourself warned!
 
Didn't they sell off ES today. Bonds up big (after opening lower to) and then there's the JPY. Nikkei should be fun today, over/under 5%?

Do any big funds still run the carry trade through the JPY? Anything leveraged just would have been creamed last night.

EDIT: Z/H has nikkei down 6% based on correlations looks my line is off
 
CanOz said:
So unless you are doing this regularly, the chance of success is pretty slim...?

Interesting to see how you go...Taleb is always betting on the swan yeah?

Love to see his record....

CanOz
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Hohoho up ~30% on the VXN

 

6%!! I wouldn't be trading that idea! Thats a 1 in 10 year event.
 
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