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  1. Long-Term Currency Trades

    As the OP said, 'synthetically'. If the stock ABC was, say, US-listed ADR of a european co. or eurozone ETF, then total return = return of...
    Post by: melo, Dec 2, 2007 in forum: Forex

  2. Long-Term Currency Trades

    I'm not sure if you are looking to passively hedge against currency risk, or pursue what's termed an active currency overlay strategy (i.e. aim...
    Post by: melo, Dec 2, 2007 in forum: Forex

  3. Trade US Dollar Index on IB?

    The NYBOT Dollar Index futures contract trades electronically on the ICE platform (www.theice.com), and futures and options still on the floor of...
    Post by: melo, Nov 14, 2007 in forum: Financial Futures

  4. Forex Daytrading a Losing game?

    IluvVol, I heartily agree with you based on my own buy & sellside experience, and speaking with FX pros in bank and academic research, bank prop...
    Post by: melo, Nov 4, 2007 in forum: Forex

  5. DX Options

    Anyone here who has traded the Dollar Index options with any regularity? Alternatively, anyone who is a/has been a/knows NYBOT floor options...
    Thread by: melo, Oct 16, 2007, 0 replies, in forum: Options

  6. Offshore Investing

    As most of the portfolio bond literature is written from a UK citizenship perspective, the terms 'onshore' and 'offshore' can be potentially...
    Post by: melo, Sep 16, 2007 in forum: Risk Management

  7. Offshore Investing

    Beware of letting the tax tail wag the investment dog. There are two basic elements in investment planning: structure, and asset allocation. I...
    Post by: melo, Sep 10, 2007 in forum: Risk Management

  8. Offshore Investing

    GreenTreeFrog - The 'portfolio bond' product I mentioned in my preceding reply to wilburbear might also be appropriate for your tax strategy,...
    Post by: melo, Sep 3, 2007 in forum: Risk Management

  9. Offshore Investing

    My base is in HK. I have done some work in the past for U.S. citizens who were currently of non-resident status, but know little of current...
    Post by: melo, Sep 3, 2007 in forum: Risk Management

  10. Offshore Investing

    From my perch as a licensed investment adviser & asset manager who has handled these sorts of issues for offshore Aussies: 1. If you are likely...
    Post by: melo, Sep 2, 2007 in forum: Risk Management

  11. If the Fed eases, the US Dollar will....

    Look at a chart of cash DX during the cycle of Fed cuts that followed the Oct '98 liquidity 'crisis' ... Interest rate differentials are not...
    Post by: melo, Aug 26, 2007 in forum: Trading

  12. Raising Money for a Hedge Fund

    I've spent time on both buy and sellside in the HF world, including co-creating a 3PM business that pushed a new fund to over US$150mm in aum...
    Post by: melo, Oct 13, 2006 in forum: Professional Trading

  13. DE Shaw

    Numbers are what brings your fund up on the screen initially. Audited returns required to back them up. Run comparisons with peer group and other...
    Post by: melo, Aug 30, 2004 in forum: Prop Firms

  14. DE Shaw

    Yes, I've read Market Wizards many times, and had an absorbing hour or so chatting to Jack Schwager a couple of years ago. I placed clients'...
    Post by: melo, Aug 30, 2004 in forum: Prop Firms

  15. DE Shaw

    Have to side with trade-ya1 in this debate. (I've been in both buy and sell side of the hedge fund industry since '98). $100m is off the radar...
    Post by: melo, Aug 29, 2004 in forum: Prop Firms

  16. DE Shaw

    Failing the search task (typing "D E Shaw" into Google retrieves their site as the first result...what were you doing??) might raise a red flag...
    Post by: melo, Aug 29, 2004 in forum: Prop Firms
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