Ask mrbaseball about trading for a living

[mrbaseball]

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Asian economic collapse and bond defaults of the late 90s.

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Interestingly and luckily I dodged that bullet. I had been trading Eurodollars versus 5 Year notes just before that happened. But a new opportunity had arisen (the forementioned basket of commodities spreads) so I switched from the euro/5yr spread to the basket trade just before that calamity. I'm quite sure I would have been mowed over as some guys I knew doing the same thing did get roughed up real bad.