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    CFC and Mozilo just keeps on selling and selling

    yes - whats 1/2 a billion dollars of exercised options gonna get you when you end up sucking someones cock in a federal prison for 20 years. if he goes inside he might lose the fake tan as well.
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    CFC and Mozilo just keeps on selling and selling

    he exercised some big options in august. he unusually did two big clips of 92000 shares at $28.74 and 110000 shares at $28.06 up to the 13th august 2007. jsut before it collapded down. nice going mate. oh where are the shares now. $21.43 :D :D...
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    The Chickens Come Home To Roost - Where are they now?

    well the chickens finally came home to roost last week for the exchanges. on eurex and liffe a lot if not all of the algos switched off. to put it midly the algos and black box systems could not cope with the volatility and the tick slippage that is currently in these markets. i have...
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    Weakness returned to European credit derivatives markets

    get the screen price and chuck on 50 b.p. that seems to work for me at the moment and pretty much how the others quote it as well.
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    futures getting killed--AIG started it

    ditto. same as everyone else thought. i pointed this out over several weeks ago and got the usual laughing brigade knocking me. not laughing now are they. this is only the beginning of this move. all the cash markets seized up in europe this morning as no banks wanted to lend to any...
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    The Silence on ET is deafening!

    loads. this is where you step up to the plate and be counted. the difference between boys and men. i think this is great at the moment. loads of volatility and great chances. there are huge edges being given up as we speak. im keeping the size very small. and keep some ammo...
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    Blind to Trend, 'Quant' Funds Pay Heavy Price

    same chart for all these funds. statistically these things should only happen once in a thousand years and then three years down the road their model does not predict that move. oh shock.
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    BNP Paribas Freezes Asset-Backed Funds Amid Subprime Concern

    so smart they voted in an asshole like bush.
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    Subprime `Tsunami' Hits Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Market

    Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Companies are extending payments on commercial paper backed by home loans for the first time as the subprime mortgage crisis spreads to debt perceived to be among the safest in the market, according to Moody's Investors Service. Units of American Home Mortgage...
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    BNP Paribas Freezes Asset-Backed Funds Amid Subprime Concern

    Aug. 9 (Bloomberg) -- BNP Paribas SA, France's biggest bank, said it froze three asset-backed securities funds because it's no longer possible to ``fairly'' value their holdings, as concern over U.S. subprime mortgage losses roils credit markets. ``The complete absence of liquidity in...
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    This is the true reality of the globalisation of china.

    This is the true reality of the globalisation of china. well done china. its sitting on a trillion dollars of surplus trade cash and it cant even spend a few dollars on cleaning up its own river. Rare river dolphin 'now extinct' An extensive survey of its habitat failed to...
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    Bear Stearns Caymans Filing May Hurt Funds' Creditors

    a pleasure doing business with you. :D :D :D Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Bear Stearns Cos.' decision to liquidate two bankrupt hedge funds in the Cayman Islands instead of New York may limit creditors' and investors' ability to get their money back. While most of their assets are in New...
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    S&P may cut ratings on $914 mln Alt-A mortgage debt

    I thought alt a was not affected. obviously not. NEW YORK, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's on Tuesday said it may cut ratings on $914 million of mortgage bonds backed by loans whose credit quality is near prime. S&P placed 207 classes of the so-called Alt-A mortgage bonds on...
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    AHM - 3 Million Shares Sold on August 1st by Chairman

    obviously he knew this and decided that this was a better price than zero. a bank robber get 25 years for stealing $100 from a till. these guys wont even serve a day in jail. ??
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    AHM - 3 Million Shares Sold on August 1st by Chairman

    This looks be to interesting reading after they went bankrupt. Maybe just a coincidence. 2007-08-01 6:16 pm AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CORP AHM STRAUSS MICHAEL (Chairman, CEO and President Director) Shares Sold - 2,969,460 at $1.172 Amount Of Sale - $3,480,207...
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    Eurex Trading Volumes Rose by 52 Percent to 162 Million Contracts in July

    funny the exchange only went live in 1998. 2007-1998 = 9 not 17 years. another over exageration of successful trading
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    I can see fed cutting rates next week

    absolutely no chance. the reason we are in this mess is because of greenspan and interest rates at 1 percent. you want to add more fuel to the fire by cutting rates. at some point the market was gonna have to take some pain for the cheap money and here it is. take the pain and absorb...
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    Eurex Trading Volumes Rose by 52 Percent to 162 Million Contracts in July

    anyone under the illusion the that the bobl 1/2 tick might go back to a full tick forget it. anyone under the illusion that the exchanges are bothered about a few locals who are scratching around for a living forget it. systems and algos rules the day. volumes are up. shareholders...
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    Jim Rogers: housing one of history's biggest bubbles

    absolutely agree 100 percent. i have the same positions. and he is right. this has got a long way to go yet.
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