I missed the EWZ bounce, real shame. I tried to bounce it every day this week. Including this morning but it kept acting weak so I dumped. Then I left my desk for 3 hours and of course, it bounced huge. Story of my life
Here is the Greenspan 'risk management' type thinking I mentioned a couple weeks back that seem to dominate the Fed's thinking these days http://www.businessinsider.com/alan-greenspan-2004-fed-speech-2015-9
Just found out that IG Markets offers USD/BRL contracts: http://www.ig.com/uk/ig-forex/usd-brl You can hedge the Refco / MF Global / FXCM risk by shorting IGG.L if something bad happens: http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/igg.l http://www.iggroup.com/corporate/shareholder_admin.html .
Cool. Any idea on what is the implied interest rate that this BRL is offering? Since the CHF fiasco some FX shops have cut down interest payments and increase costs dramatically. I used to love Oanda but now the carry and costs are made the broker almost useless
I noticed the same with Oanda. Have you switched brokers? I've been thinking of Dukascopy, not sure what the situation is there.
No. I haven't had the need to put on a FX position on a while. When that happens I will probably use futures or FX at IB, maybe even EFTs. If there are more good brokers out there that still pay good interest I would love to know
I came up with an idea on how to generate extra income in a low rate world. If anyone has any comments, let me know http://www.elitetrader.com/et/index...ances-kept-in-retail-brokers-a-theory.294576/
A question actually about bond interests for offshore traders, I thought at least the corporate bond interest payments were hit by a 30% witholding tax. Is that not the case ?
I mentioned the idea of shorting BRL against AUD/CAD/NZD but not I'm not so sure I will put the trade on. This was such a ridiculous panic that things could settle down for a while. BRL is up another 2% today. I have never seen so many people cluless about the markets talking about the real (or any market) on facebook before. This could have been a significant bottom. Shorting now could be dangerous or it might work. I'm not just sure either way
No 30% withholding for bond interest. At least not for bonds that are 'registered' or some IRS term like that. I'm long USTs (but I plan to 'chase' duration soon as some of my brokers don't pay interest and don't allow bond buying) and I never pay any tax. Bank interest is also exempt. Bond interest from ETFs USED to be exempt but that expired in 2014 and it was not extended. Harry Reid tried to extend that if you can believe that Short-term capital gains exemptions from ETFs also appear to have expired on 2014. This could have some significant implications if you are long ETFs