Curve-Trader LTD Online Trading Academy
The Business of Trading the Yield Curve.
1) Traders Holy Grail – Understanding, Practise, Plan, Spot opportunity, Execute, Evaluate and Repeat.
2) The FOMC, its Interest Rate Decision Making Processes and how they affect our Yield Curve.
3) Managing and Quantifying Risk when stepping into the Interest rate ‘pit’.
4) Who am I trading with? How to Spot an opportunity as to that of a pitfall?
5) How to migrate over from another ‘pit’ or Market to the UST’s and Euro$ in as simple fashion possible. How to identify the part of the yield curve that suits your trading style.
6) Popular Trading Strategies. (Trade execution, Pattern Recognition, Risk Management, Profit objectives and Exit Strategies)
Yield Curve Strategies for Active Traders. Trading and Spreading of the Long end of the Yield Curve.
1) Concise guide to Fundamentals affecting the Long End of the Yield Curve. Outlining major differences from the Shorter Maturity Spreads.
2) With the use of past data and charts, identify and discuss precisely the Patterns we should look for in our trading.
3) Identify the participants in the longer maturities. How and why they use Financial Futures to hedge their exposures.
4) Overview of the Strategies commonly used by the Professional Trader in the Long End.
5) Ratios and TT Set-up.
6) How to Chart and identify Anomalies along the curve.
7) How to Set-up to trade 5’s/10’s/30’s
8) How to identify Trends in the Long End of the Curve? How to read the Economic Data?
9) Highlight the vast similarities and differences between the Euro$ and UST’s.
CURVE-TRADER WEBINARS
1.Trading and Spreading the Long End of the yield Curve.
2.How non-Eurex traders can migrate over to EGB futures from another exchange and/or Product.
3.How to Embrace the Yield curve as a tool for scalping the EGB outright Contracts.
4.Trading European Govt Bonds against 3mth Inter-bank Euribor Futures. (Short and Long End)
5.Trading European Govt Futures for Beginners
6.Advanced Yield Curve Trading.
7.Schatz/Bobl/Bund Butterflies and the entire component Spreads.
8. Bobl/Bund/Buxl Butterflies and the entire component Spreads.
I have listed below 3 examples of How Curve-Trader would go about Presenting one of the above Topics.
Trading and Spreading the Long End of the Yield Curve:
1.Concise guide to Fundamentals affecting the Long End of the Yield Curve. Outlining major differences from the Shorter Maturity Spreads.
2.With the use of past data and charts, identify and discuss precisely the Patterns we should look for in our trading.
3.Identify the participants in the longer maturities. How and why they use Financial Futures to hedge their exposures.
4.Overview of the Strategies commonly used by the Professional Trader in the Long End.
5.How to set up your CQG and/or Bloomberg.Taking time to describe relationships with the Swap Curve and US Interest rate yield curve.
6.Ratios and TT Set-up.
7.How to Chart and identify Anomalies along the curve.
8.How to Set-up to trade Bobl/Bund/Buxl.
9.How to Set-up to trade Bund/Buxl and Bobl/Buxl.
(For each of 8 and 9 I will give the groups, if required, live/Simulator examples of: Trade execution, Pattern Recognition, Risk Management, Profit objectives and Exit Strategies) I recommend I spend time discussing the methods of trading each spread or Butterfly in any of the following market trends: Bull Flattening, Bull Steepening, Bear Flattening and Bear Steepening. Identifying the different techniques required to trade each curve Bias.
10.How to identify Trend in the Long End of the Curve. How to read Economic Data.
11.Hightlight the vast similarities and Differences between the CBOT and EGB financial Futures. 12.How to automate your strategies.
2.How non-Eurex traders can migrate over to EGB futures from another exchange and/or Product. (As you can see a lot of Subjects covered in Topic 1, Long End of the yield Curve, Will be covered in this section)
1.Highlight the vast similarities and differences between the UST’s and EGB Financial Futures.
2.Funadamental overview of the European Central Bank, its role, its responsibilities and its own Personal Style.
3.How to migrate over from the UST’s to EGB’s in as simple fashion possible. How to identify the part of the yield curve that suits your trading style.
4.Common mistakes made when joining the EGB financial futures.
5.Key trading hours.
6.Key speakers of the ECB.
7.Setting up your CQG and/or Bloomberg.
8.How to Set-up to trade Schatz/Bobl, Shatz/Bund, Bobl/Bund.
9.How to Set-up to trade Bobl/Buxl, Bund/Buxl and Bobl/Bund.
10.How to Set-up to trade Schatz/Bobl/Bund and Bobl/Bund/buxl.
(For each of 8, 9 and 10 I will give the groups, if required, live/Simulator examples of: Trade execution, Pattern Recognition, Risk Management, Profit objectives and Exit Strategies) 11.Managing Risk. Identifying Strategies that appear to be a hedge and turn out to be nothing like it! Again I recommend I spend time discussing the methods of trading each spread or Butterfly in any of the following market trends: Bull Flattening, Bull Steepening, Bear Flattening and Bear Steepening. Identifying the different techniques required to trade each curve Bias.
3.How to Embrace the Yield curve as a tool for scalping the EGB outright Contracts. Again many of the subjects overlap.
1.How to identify Curve-Bias.
2.Identifying and spotting anomalies along the yield curve and scalping the outright contracts.
3.How to Set-up your CQG/Bloomberg Charts for outright trading EGB’s.
4.How to create intra-day trading plans for EGB outrights.
5.How to Trade The Schatz outright.
6.How to Trade The Bobl outright.
7.How to Trade the Bund outright.
8.How to trade the Buxl outright. (For each of 5,6,7 and 8 I will give the groups, if required, live/Simulator examples of: Trade execution, Pattern Recognition, Risk Management, Profit objectives and Exit Strategies)