Martinghoul's mentioning of PRDC rings a bell, I remember a ML or MS article on it when it first went negative last Fall. I probably still have...
I work at a real money firm for my day job, not a trader but I deal with them daily. I would eat my hat if they even knew of this site, at least...
If you get a raise after a year, you just found out the hard way that you been paying for inflated goods with a steady income for a year, and now...
Is that honestly what you think? Why can't we place blame on the deserving ones...executive management, and the boards of directors that...
Well I think this is not a recovery at all. So you would probably put me in the bear camp. But wouldn't you know it, I've been long for over a...
Well I don't count myself as one to call top or bottom, but I do know enough to call out statements which the author tries to make them sound as...
You can't sell a Treasury bond unless you own it. At least, you can't as a retail trader. Large institutions can...it's called the repo market....
Not to pick a bone ;) but... the Yuan is pegged to the USD. Devaluation of the dollar doesn't impact US / China Trade, at least while the peg is...
For netting purposes, use min-profit / max-loss to minimize tax exposure, and keep as much unrealized gains as possible.
Yes but my post was aimed more at the divergence in correlation after Fed purchase program has ended.
niceneasy is right, you both need to chill. Unfunded obligations are just that...unfunded. Meaning as those obligations come due they will...
Interesting how things turned out, it's not the end of the year yet and ZN is at 121-13+ ^_^ And the stock market is up from this post a few...
My pleasure. I have some others at work, they are hard copies though. I'll take a peek tomorrow see if there are any pertinent.
I've been trying to hunt this article down for almost two weeks. "The Q2 Flow of Funds Report published by the Federal Reserve revealed that...
That statement is very suspicious to me. You see I review and process trades at my day job for an institution managing and hedging 100's of...
When there is a flight to quality, everyone pours into UST's the USD strengthens because everyone needs the $ before they can buy the UST. As...
This was my first thought, then I skipped the rest of the post and went straight to the responses.
The currency is irrelevant to the question - USD/EUR. But, I can see based on how you answered/misdirected both questions to see what you are...
The best part about this thread is how everyone tries to bust out some math and show everyone how they little the know about the science. Who...
Well if you want leverage on single names there's always the option market. And if you want to be levered in something else there is always...
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