Recent content by laputa

Thanks Roscoe!

They can monetarize the debt. That's real money printing.

GC is almost all electronic volume now. Electronic GC is the contract to trade gold future.

>Something's wrong with a country if a recession threatens uprisings. Not even a recession, just a slower growth. They don't call it a developing country for no reason. Fact is 800M of china's citizens are peasants. They need 8% grow to absorb that labour force.

They bail out citi with $300Bln while giving GM the middle finger... so unfair...

Short cover rally on fear of china announcing rate cut tomorrow. They do it on Saturday and no body wants to be short coming into the weekend.

Problem is how do we *really* trade that index? The ETFs have been a rip off in tracking the moves...

Most ppl in china were thinking exactly the same. Always fade the majority...

The two are not the same contract... the one trade on Nymex is WTI Check wiki for details http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benchmark_(crude_oil) They probably have different cost of carry too because of the different storage facilities... Pure arbitrage is virtually non-existence today...

Iraq stopped accepting the dollar for their oil (switched to Euro) and look what happened to them. Soon America is going to invade Iran for precisely the same reason. The US military is going to save the dollar's ass once again until no one would even talk about giving up on the dollar.

rewtree could you tell me the current ET name Alan is using? Pls PM me if needed. Many thanks!

It's just a typical short covering rally trigger by the first bullish sign of the dollar (rate may stop lowering). Too many people have made money shorting the dollar and they're very anxious in seeing their profit vaporize and thus an inevitable short cover rally. Once all the weak hands have...

I've never used mobile broadband so I don't know for sure. Smartone has the 3.5G (HSDPA) service but from what I heard the connection is not completely stable when you're on the move. My friend said streaming video would stall for a few seconds when he's moving from one area to another. Coverage...

HK does not collect capital gain tax no matter where the profit comes from. I've filled out a W form (I think W-8) when I open my IB account and that basically says I'm a non US resident and thus not subjected to US taxation. So because I'm not subjected to US tax and HK does not have capital...

Office space is horribly expensive in prime location. If you're a hedge fund and would like to make an impression to clients then it is really expensive. Otherwise rent are actually quite reasonable. Air quality is definitely not first rate but it's not unbearable. Broadband is definitely...