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A Trader’s Diary from 2006 to the Present

Magazineline.com In 2006, there were those of us who knew, like we did in 2000, that something was wrong. It wasn’t because we were “in the know”, rather because we could recognize and think we know how to read a chart, like we actually did back then. What mattered was nothing but the supply demand [...]

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Free 10GB Photo Storage in the Cloud It’s not free running a free blog, much less something like a Proprietary Trading site based on Global Macro financial research. Every reader knows that they get something out of the site and for each reader it’s unique. Some like the geo-political twists, some purview based on Quantitative [...]

Large Funds See Withdrawals, Small sub-$1bb Funds Gaining Sticky Money

Magazineline.com The article written below was published on Institutional Investor’s Web Site. Here’s a LINK to the original . The past 4 years of my life, the Social Sigma (i.e Standard Deviation) has been positively correlated in both my personal as well as my professional life. To the literal teenie. You know what I mean, [...]

Pushback from the Market to Geithner III?

Magazineline.com Geithner III is intended to create “price discovery”. But when you backstop the “buyer” from any downside while at the same time financing said buyer, then the “value” or price discovered becomes artificially inflated. Perhaps this is precisely why the plan is designed this way. Nonetheless, the solution is in and we can get [...]

Short and Long Plays Popping Up All Over the Place

Free 10GB Photo Storage in the Cloud The desk I run is an Institutional Long/Short Equity desk which tries to maintain a “market neutral” book. This doesn’t mean “buy 1000 shares of IBM and 10 puts”. What market neutrality means is that one need not be concerned about the overall direction of the market, as [...]

Global Macro Themes for the Proprietary Trader

Try Match.com – One Week Free 30-year Treasury Yields are about to spike along with a dollar rally. I feel this is the catalyst to trigger a sustained pullback in equities, which will reflect our rising unemployment rate and all the stimulus plans that are slowly phasing out. Equity Long/Short Market Neutral traders will have [...]

Capitalist Socialism and the Net Net of It All

Try Match.com – One Week Free The largest share redistribution of the country’s financial companies is about to take place right before our very eyes. This is the final crescendo of the Financial Crisis of 2008: Massive share sales of the strongest banks that are standing right now. .. All of a sudden, showing strength [...]