30 year bond overnight move

NexusFi · 2013-12-27T10:31:11-05:00

I was told fat finger but I am not sure. I trade cash bonds and we tried to capitalize on it but they cancelled all our trades. I was on and watching looking for a short on the 30 year cash on brokertec. It looked like a fat finger because the cash products didn't move with the future but the size of the move makes me really wonder. When I saw it I was expecting a major event somewhere and when we found no news we shorted the 10s and 30s small. We ended up with really big gain a for such a small size …

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Updated December 27, 2013

30 year bond overnight move

December 26th, 2013, 07:15 PM	#11 (permalink)
Fat Tails Berlin, Europe Market Wizard Experience: Advanced Platform: NinjaTrader, MultiCharts Broker: Interactive Brokers Trading: Keyboard Posts: 9,888 since Mar 2010 Thanks Given: 4,242 Thanks Received: 27,103	Analysis made by Nanex for the front month contract ZB H4 More information is here: Nanex ~ 23-Dec-2013 ~ Wild Wild Treasuries

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December 27th, 2013, 10:31 AM	#12 (permalink)
josh Georgia, US Legendary Market Wizard Experience: None Platform: SC Broker: Denali+Rithmic Trading: ES, NQ, YM Posts: 6,249 since Jan 2011 Thanks Given: 6,785 Thanks Received: 18,268	Even though trades were busted in this case, a smaller magnitude move may not have been, and the only losers would have been those with stop orders.

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