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I do care about tj and his funny comments... About the mkts? Not so much.

There is no answer because nobody gives a rat's ass... Simples.

But surely that's not the same as having an opinion on the outright direction of the mkt?

It's not a JPY spike, it's a USD spankage... Pretty much all crosses.

Huh? Why should everyone have an opinion about the mkt? I have absolutely no idea what the mkt is likely to do, but then it doesn't really matter...

Yeah, sure, although he's got so much ground to cover I am not sure MBS would do the trick, Fed or no Fed.

Isn't likely to help Ole Bill this year, is it...

Is there anything else that we think the Fed should be targeting? So far, in addition to the unemployment and CPI, I have: a) strength/weakness of USD; b) monetary aggregates, such as M2/M3; c) wholesale prices, i.e. PPI; I think you should petition Congress to change the Fed mandate to...

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/categories/18

There we go... Great plan! It's the sort of stuff dreams are made of.

Amen to that...

Some people say Britney Spears is an extra-terrestrial alien...

It's an unofficial leak by some Jap official... Out on DJ Newswires, I think.

No, there's no ticker... There's a few people who offer vanilla FX options, I think, like Oanda and Saxo, but I am not 100% certain.

OTC is where liquidity is at, which means "volume" doesn't really make a lot of sense in that context.

Yeah, both France and Belgium getting spanked... I think it's really just the simple fact that there's a lot of real money who are long and daily risk on/risk off stuff is irrelevant to them. They need out and that's all there is to it.

What do you mean? Options on CHF are mostly OTC.

It's all the same story...

I am no IB expert, so I can't tell you with any degree of certainty. And yes, indeed, liquidity in CME FX futures is crap, let alone options on futures. But I don't think there's anything you can do on IB. The other name I keep hearing mentioned in the context of vanilla options is Saxo, but...

Well, there's a whole bunch of providers out there (other than IB) that offer FX options. If I am not mistaken (I am not in the US, so take with a pinch of salt), people like Oanda do this and maybe some others.