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    Proprietary Trading

    It has been said that when a financial services firm trades both as agent in facilitating customer orders and as principal for the firm, conflicts of interest may arise in several ways. Obviously, a firm's proprietary desk trading ahead of pending customer orders is probably the first conflict...
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    Proprietary Trading

    It is said that: When a financial services firm trades both as agent in facilitating customer orders and as principal for the firm, conflicts of interest may arise in several ways. Obviously, a firm's proprietary desk trading ahead of pending customer orders. Werll how does that hurt the...
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    Filling Orders?!

    Than You Occam,,,,, The math in your example is not correct. I guess you meant if you place an order to buy at 4.0001 then they can fill it at 4.0099 for a profit of .0098. At any rate, if you place an order to buy at 4.0001 can they fill at 4,0099 or they must have absolutely fill you 4.0001?
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    Where is the market

    Where is the market for RMBS? Where does someone go to sell RMBS?
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    Filling Orders?!

    Legally speaking, when a customer places an order with a stock broker to buy Citibank stock for say 4$ and another customer of the same broker places an order to sell Citibank stock at 4$. Can the stock broker match the two customers together? Or both orders has to be routed to the stock...
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    I don't Get it?!

    Thank you for all for your replies...appreciate it. if what Leed said is true "The basic idea is the same as for equity index futures. The underlying equity portfolio (index) is well-defined but neither the buyer nor the seller actually hold this portfolio. The future payout depends on how...
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    I don't Get it?!

    I still do not get it!!. What is meant by a Synthetic CDO SHORT position? (1)- Selling the security of the CDO. (2)- selling insurance on the referenced Synthetic CDO mortgages? In Other words, How did IKB ( the German bank) lose money in the Abacus deal?! :confused:
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    Cdo

    I still do not get it!!. What is meant by a Synthetic CDO short position? (1)- Selling the security of the CDO. (2)- selling insurance on the referenced Synthetic CDO mortgages? In Other words, How did IKB ( the German bank) lose money in the Abacus deal :confused:
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