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Porcupine
 

Registered: Sep 2010
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09-06-11 01:03 PM

This is a Central Bank made FlashCrash and this should not be allowed in a free market! (I know ... I mentioned free market, which we do not have anymore)

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joneog
 

Registered: Jun 2010
Posts: 237

 

09-06-11 01:06 PM


Quote from Ghost of Cutten:

You don't seem to understand - the SNB can print as many CHF as it wants, therefore it can provide infinite CHF supply at 1.20. If the SNB doesn't want the CHF over 1.20, it won't go over that level.

A country cannot make its own currency go up, but it can certainly make it go down. The central bank does, after all, have the ability to literally print as much of the currency as they require.



the BOJ must not have gotten the memo

btw, I would love to see eur/chf just flatline at 1.20 for the next week, see if unlimited really is unlimited.

otherwise chf-carry for free money

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Martinghoul
 

Registered: Jan 2009
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09-06-11 01:15 PM


Quote from Ghost of Cutten:
You don't seem to understand - the SNB can print as many CHF as it wants, therefore it can provide infinite CHF supply at 1.20. If the SNB doesn't want the CHF over 1.20, it won't go over that level.

A country cannot make its own currency go up, but it can certainly make it go down. The central bank does, after all, have the ability to literally print as much of the currency as they require.


It is limited solely by the "will" of the various stakeholders.

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CrazyBoy
 

Registered: Apr 2009
Posts: 41

 

09-06-11 01:39 PM

What is to stop the ECB from setting a Euro base floor of 1.2 against the Franc tommorow? Perhaps this is the new FX market?

Just exactly who has the ultimate authority to determine the value of a currency when two 'opposing/individual institutions' both hold the autonomy and discretion to make a decision?

It would appear to myself asthough these speculators that the SNB are only to readily prepared to 'blame' for the rise in the Franc over the last 4 years perhaps live a little closer to home than the SNB would have you believe.

Smoke and mirrors.

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Larson
 

Registered: Jul 2010
Posts: 1073

 

09-06-11 01:42 PM


Quote from THE-BEAKER:

this move is pre empting a greek default.

i think its fairly obvious now.

the swiss have just made one less safe haven to park your money up in.

bi bi trichet




Indeed.

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Larson
 

Registered: Jul 2010
Posts: 1073

 

09-06-11 01:45 PM


Quote from DT-waw:

the game is rigged.
i'm sure some people new about this decision and made tens of millions of euros in 1 hour.

fuck, central banks should be taken out of this planet




These are also extraordinary times in currency markets and extreme measures and volatility are to be expected.

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