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Markets have rallied on the ECBs bond buying plan, despite a dissenting vote from Germany, do you believe the plan will work as a result of having Germanys support?

If Germany comes out saying "Nein" to unlimited bond buying, what effect do you think this'll have on the market, can they cobble together some other kind of solution?

Agreed. This is essential, and I notice that the early close days aren't listed on the brokers (like interactive brokers calendar for 3rd JULY). This is amazing - having an early close and not telling anyone about it - printing a calendar and not putting the early close days on it. What is...

Faced with France showing an end to the fiscal pact, what will Germany do?

I understand from the news that there’s still about 5 trillion dollars in deleveraging still to come, and that this is having an effect on deflation. Can anyone explain to me how deleveraging is measured? How do they even guess what the intentions of banks is in this regard? Thank you for...

Hi I am looking for an accountability partner, someone to share goals and progress with (related to trading/investment). It doesn't matter where you are, I envisage something where we can be frank about the good and bad aspects and support and encourage one another. This does not mean...

The survey needs a few more obvious choices for those that believe there will be no QE3 and that there'll be no rally.

please disregard this, I have sorted the issue out with IB.

After alot of torture I think that I can disregard the virtual FX positions shown on the TWS. They are sort of an accounting thing and nothing to do with the ownership of any assets. I found a couple of debates about this, the best of them is here...

Can anyone help me understand the relationship between the stock price (of say TLT, 30yr tbonds) and the underlying yield? Is the price inversely proportionate to the yield, as you expect from Bonds or are there other issues involved (omitting funds expenses)? Thank you in advance for any...

How much does this promise from the Fed really mean? The market alreadly is pricing low rates long into the future, and is looking at ultra low rates now, so whats new other than a "promise" to keep this status quo. What's it going to say for their credibility if when they have to break...

It, maybe could be many things but undervaluation is not one of them. It's not 'coming back' it's never floated anywhere near this level before ... ever

I do not believe that there's any fundamental cause for the NZD to rise so much recently. I think it's sort of like spillover from flows into the AUD. I'd suggest that it illustrates not the usual FX trading but money wanting to diversify away from elsewhere (Euro?) to the AUD and coming from...

Do you think that this Greek debacle or the ending of QE2 will coincide with increased volatility? Given the cost of being long volatility its reasonable to expect any surge to sort of come at the last minute. Any comments welcome.

I don't think this has to be complex, simply get the % change in the time periods and get the standard deviation of it as a proportion of the stock value. Try it, it gives a very commonsense result. Other versions might include skew but are not necessarily better for this. It never ceases...

What is the view from Russia? The possible contest looks interesting but is it all just a media facade? Would Russians back someone like Medvedev ahead of a tough guy like Putin? I find it interesting because Russians I meet seem avid at assessing people's character and so its puzzling why...

Yes, I posted a complaint about their charts (often after though they are disfunctional) and yes they did proceed to fix the bug it took a day or 2.

How is it possible to trade on the credit risk associated with nations? Say I think Spain's ratings going to be downgraded, how is it done, are there any retail trading instruments for this. Apparently, CDs are not traded on any exchange, so how are they traded and is there an alternative to...

Point's well made.

Of course not, I was actually addressing it. IMO, theres alot of scarcasm on the topic, thats fine and good. But it seems that traders are too willing to believe the scarcastic arguments rather than the literal ones. The Fed can't argue sarcastically, and IMO, I think their comments are being...