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Besides, you're talking about ZB, a long-dated bond future (it's more like 15y, as Nov24 is the CTD), whose movements are not as correlated to the stock mkt as the short-dated futures are. Finally, there were days last year when liquidation would move stocks and bonds the same way, so you have...

While I agree with you on your other points, how is having a 'strong currency' a 'better fundamental' for an export economy?

The graphs above should be treated with care. What they show is what BIS calls 'total foreign claims' of Western European banks in the CEE countries (that's the often cited $1.5trn figure). However, not all 'foreign claims' are created equal. It's important to distinguish between proper...

Join a hedge fund, negotiate well (with a professional's help), do not sign anything punitive. I think it's the best option. You have to remember that HF people are not stupid. They, as well as, hopefully, yourself, realize that the thing you have created is not guaranteed to work forever...

It doesn't work like this... If I have $10k worth of gold and I sell it, does anything actually change in a meaningful way? As pointed out by others, GDP is a measure of value added, not of total value. Unless you are talking about the total value of all the assets in the world, which...

That's a silly overgeneralization. A future is a derivative instrument. Shall we abolish all futures? And what about this pearl of wisdom: Derivatives pricing, simply put, is determined by what someone else is willing to pay for the contract. No, you don't say?! I wonder if there is an...

Alan is being quite a bit disingenuous in his explanation. Firstly, he's cleverly utilizing a logical fallacy that assumes that the bubble can only have one cause, either a low funds rate or low mortgage rates. Because, he argues, low mortgage rates are, ultimately, to blame, it's not the...

I don't know where you can see this on the internet for free, but you can see live prices on Bloomberg. You can also check as sometimes Markit publishes something...

There's a theory that I heard that attempts to explain competitive advantage within any given setting through several factors (if you're curious look at work done by Thomas Powell). Most importantly, it's 1) population size (self-explanatory), 2) search efficacy (how well the group can locate...

ET is truly the place to go for some quality entertainment! I am absolutely lovin' it!

You're mad, my friend... Best of luck to you, regardless.

Yo, amytrade, while I disagree with some of your methods, your comments suggest to me you're truly stellar at risk management... Just thought I'd say well done and you're a star!

Huh? Is this a serious question?

*BERNANKE SAYS HE WOULDN'T SUPPORT SUSPENDING MARK-TO-MARKET

Actually, Juncker, in spite of being a Prime Minister of the relatively insignificant Luxembourg, is quite an influential ECB figure.

This is funny: http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

This is a sort of tangential argument to your point, but this guy REALLY knows what he's talking about and he does describe the transmission mechanism. http://www.federalreserve.gov/Pubs/feds/2007/200740/200740pap.pdf

It's quite obvious, so question is really what you're looking at (see the attached chart of US trade-weighted spot).

But, surely, we have to agree that, by definition, if you just play the delta, you must be able to replicate your option portfolio payout with the underlying (otherwise, you wouldn't be able to price options, 'cause Black-Scholes wouldn't hold). The only excessively strong assumption in BS is...

Indeed, this is a very valid reason, thx... I don't do stocks, so I did not factor this in.