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    Who is still short? Be honest now.

    Usually, I see 30k - 50k ES futures contracts traded in HFT style, when certain support / resistance levels MUST be breached. Same style applies to FDAX, FTSE, Hangseng, Nikkei, Kospi, Taiex, ASX, CAC 40, Eurostoxx...etc. Usually, I play this song when such events occur : The Doors: Break...
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    U.S. Bailout Costs May Reach $23.7 Trillion, TARP Inspector Says

    July 20 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. taxpayers may be on the hook for as much as $23.7 trillion to bail out financial companies, according to Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program. Barofsky made the estimate in testimony prepared for a...
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    So, the earnings beating season has begun...

    where are the negative "suprises"...:confused: Regional U.S. Banks May Report Record Drop in Profit Investors may end up disappointed by upcoming earnings reports from smaller banks. "While last week's numbers from some financial giants were well received, a large number of smaller...
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    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    Alarm signs are ringing. GS is too bullish before the end of the earnings season. That´s more then suspicious. Entering 960 calls, 920 puts.
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    Goldman boosts S&P end year target to 1060

    July 20 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. boosted its forecast for the Standard & Poor 500 Index, saying improving earnings will spur the steepest second-half rally since 1982. The benchmark index for U.S. stocks will end the year at 1,060, 15 percent above its level on June 30 and an...
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    Hangseng Leadership...

    My chart program has a funny feature called "trend line". I thought if this one is broken, we might see a sell off. Didn´t work out this time. Tomorrow I will try "trend channel"...:p :) :D
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    AAA CDO´s revisited

    We heard last week that Morgan Stanley has begun making plans to repackage downgraded debt into a new tranche of AAA-rated securities. That technique essentially involves employing a Re-REMIC strategy typically used for CMBS-backed CDOs, to repackage a CDO backed by leveraged loans - a CLO...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    Short 5061.00
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    Hangseng Leadership...

    Yes, stopped. I had just this short idea today. Plain wrong. :( But hey, tomorrow is a new day ! :)
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    Top Chinese bank regulator warns of loan growth risks

    TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- China's top banking regulator issued a strongly worded warning over the weekend about the risks of his country's surge in loan growth in the first half of this year, according to reports. "(We) must control the risk of real-estate loans," said Liu Mingkang, the head of...
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    New York may sue Charles Schwab over Auction Rate Securities

    LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo plans to sue Charles Schwab & Co. for civil fraud over its marketing and sales of auction-rate securities, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing a letter from Cuomo's office. Many other Wall Street firms have settled...
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    Hangseng Leadership...

    It will end in a gigantic "KAWUM", But now now.
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    Hangseng Leadership...

    19190.00. Short.
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    AIG’s European Derivatives May Take Decades to Expire

    July 17 (Bloomberg) -- American International Group Inc.’s trading partners may force the insurer to bear the risk of losses on corporate loans and mortgages for years beyond the company’s expectations, complicating U.S. efforts to stabilize the firm, analysts said. European banks...
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    WSJ : CIT cuts deal bondholders for $3 bn in financing,will avoid bankruptcy

    Just a matter of the velocity of how billions are burned. But don´t worry, as long as Dr. Bernanke´s emergency room exists : :p
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    WSJ : CIT cuts deal bondholders for $3 bn in financing,will avoid bankruptcy

    Breaking News * CIT cuts deal with key bondholders for $3 billion in financing. CIT will avoid bankruptcy, restructure outside court. :D :D :D Just right on time...
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    U.K. faces spending cuts, higher taxes and a potential currency collapse ?

    The state of the U.K. economy fills British financial historian Niall Ferguson with foreboding. “The probability of a real sterling crisis is around one in three, and the probability of major tax hikes and cuts in public spending is roughly one in one,” the Harvard University professor says...
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    CIT’s Customers Issue an Urgent Request to Obama administration

    Thirty-two trade groups, in an unusual display of unity, pleaded in a letter on Friday night for the Obama administration to reverse its decision and extend aid to the beleaguered small-business lender CIT Group Inc. as the firm inches closer to a possible bankruptcy filing. The coalition...
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    Wells Fargo failed to receive $5.5m of bond insurance payments

    "The federal government is one of the largest victims . . since it has tens of billions of dollars of exposure to the affected securities by virtue of loss-sharing arrangements it recently entered into with certain banks," said the legal complaint filed against MBIA. Coincidence ? :D :D :D
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    Wells Fargo failed to receive $5.5m of bond insurance payments

    Remember monoliners ? http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/24304c98-401f-11de-9ced-00144feabdc0.html By Aline van Duyn in New York Published: May 14 2009 03:00 | Last updated: May 14 2009 03:00 Solvency concerns swirl around bond insurers Three weeks ago, Wells Fargo filed a notice that...
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