....it seems like almost everyone on here was biased to the short side..... and we have only gone up.... and still it seems most posters are biased to the short side......interesting.... ....great call islands111 .....
WALL STREET CITY WallStreetCity.com Inside Wall Street Oct 22 1998 3:33PM CST The Real Story Behind the Fed Ease By Paul Lam Senior Markets Writer Contrary to what most would like to believe, the Federal Reserves abrupt decision to cut interest rates on Oct.15 was not so much due to concerns over a slowing economy or credit crunch. The action, which came 16 days after the first 0.25% rate cut, was outside the normal context of a Federal Open Market Committee meeting, which does not convene again until Nov. 17. It was a response to an immediate meltdown threat of the banking system. According to informed sources, the Fed had been injecting liquidity into major banks even before the Oct. 15 ease. Federal Reserve repo tenders, which are repurchases of Treasury securities held by banks in return for short-term cash, a common way to add liquidity to the banking system, rose by 35% during the two weeks prior to the surprise rate-cut. The Oct. 15 ease, on top of the recent surge in liquidity available to banks, reportedly came after urgent requests from the resident of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, who told Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan of extraordinary demands by one member bank in its region. Reliable sources indicate that this demand for repo funds had been provoked by a credit squeeze in the interbank market against Bank of America (BAC:NYSE). Bankers believe that the bank's troubles are far more serious than what is being told to the public. Bank of America made a $357 million loss write-off due to its participation in the troubled hedge fund D.E. Shaw, and bought $20 billion in outstanding securities and derivatives contracts from that hedge fund in order to prevent its demise. The grave danger on Oct. 15 was of a breakdown in the interbank payments system, which could have easily led to a global systemic collapse. While investors around the world rejoice the Feds action by outrageously bidding up stock prices, the more alarming message is that the emerging markets crisis has now fully reached the G7 financial systems. <old story but very similar in dynamics>
thanks for the article spectre. it's eerie how history repeats itself. i haven't been trading a lot myself this week. working on my method, because i realized that my last one was critically flawed. good trading to all!
Nice movement on ES after hours. Maybe I should start trading in the evening??? When I left yesterday it was around 1460 and it went to over 1482. Nice ride ...it would have been.
my sells that were moved up to the 80 zone for the gap, were covered here @ 75.25.....on the 5`s....looking for a retest of 83/85.
with the ponzi scheme in full gear...the fed pumpin presidents,the bulls have commenced their bloated pig dance thanks to the "anticipation" of a big juicy cut.they could take it to 1500/1508 as long as the printing/pumping continues. the overnight hi is 83.75....so why not?....if they fall short,i`ll still be in that zone ....80/85... as a seller,with more to sell above but conservative.