Bond market traders poised for unprecedented 1am gilts sell-off on election night (UK Bonds)

Daily Mail ^ | May 2, 2010 | Staff

[C19fan]

Traders will be able to buy and sell government bonds at 1am on Friday morning for the first time so that they can react to the outcome of the general election. The London futures market (LIFFE) will open just three hours after polls close so that traders will have the chance to dump gilts if a hung parliament is looking likely.

[jiggyboy]

How can you tell whether you are a compulsive gambler?

Only you can make that decision. Most people turn to Gamblers Anonymous when they become willing to admit that gambling has them licked. Also in Gamblers Anonymous, a compulsive gambler is described as a person whose gambling has caused growing and continuing problems in any department of his or her life.
Many Gamblers Anonymous members went through terrifying experiences before they were ready to accept help. Others were faced with a slow, subtle deterioration which finally brought them to the point of admitting defeat.

[Buckeye McFrog]

can you imagine if t-bills had been trading in real-time during Florida 2000...

[SAJ]

The next best trading vehicle of that type, next to T-Bills, is Eurodollars...and they WERE trading that night on SIMEX (Singapore).

You're quite right; one of the wildest Eurodollar trading sessions I can recall. The single wildest, of course, was the night we launched Desert Storm in 1991.