CME launched its Housing Futures yesterday. I have done a little bit of research on it and posted some charts and spreadsheets in this topic - I'd like to hear your opinions. Personally I think that the housing market is going to drop but that is not what the futures are telling us. What do you think?
kick ass post. thanks. This seems to suggest that indeed mtg rates should cool off thru the summer and fall, giving speculators one last chance to cash out. I also expect housing to take a huge beating...
From what I can see so far there has only been 1 contract traded in the composite index in the Aug and 1 in the Nov contract and those were both transacted today.
Housing's gonna take an enormus beating......The Chicago Condo market is already begining to look somber.......perfect timing on the part of the CME to get these products up and trading. The word around the CME is that there's huge interest in these things, and that they should find good liquidity real quick.....
Are your charts and research on ET?? post a link??? they are alot more liquid than anyone thought they would be at the start.
http://emini.deltat1.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1016 What do you mean liquid? How many contracts have traded? I see only 1.
I don't see any trades either -- on the CME site. I guess pricing is based on this Case-Schiller index. I wonder what kind of deal CME has with them -- much less how they derive their prices for each metro area? Seems like there is a lot of room for fudging an index like this. Having said that I like the concept. Be interesting to see what kind of spreads develop if it ever takes off.