The Credit Crisis Financial Stocks Short Journal

Discussion in 'Journals' started by Daal, Aug 14, 2008.

  1. This has existed for years now... I don't understand what's there to develop, really.

    Check this out here (based on FedFund futures options prices):
    http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/data/fedfunds/index.cfm

    BBG has the FFIP fuctionality, which allows you to imply the probabilities using either options or futures prices. It's also quite easy to create your own spreadsheet in Excel, but would very much depend on how sophisticated you wanna get. The Cleveland Fed methodology is quite rigorous and accurate.
     
    #1531     Apr 1, 2010
  2. Daal

    Daal

    The CME one might be quasi-real time(15min delayed), thats useful for us traders without bloomberg terminals
     
    #1532     Apr 1, 2010
  3. Well, if you want that, why don't you just create your own spreadsheet that will be full realtime? It's honestly not very hard, depending on accuracy desired. And you'll have full control over the methodology and the functionality.
     
    #1533     Apr 1, 2010
  4. Daal

    Daal

    Bill Dudley speech has lots of kind words and justifications for 'extended period'. Looks like there will be at least one more meeting with that, making the first hike possible in Nov 2-3 at the earliest. That shouldn't prevent Greenlaw from reaching all time highs in his confidence(along with the stock market)
     
    #1534     Apr 2, 2010
  5. Daal

    Daal

    Great piece by contrary investor
    http://www.contraryinvestor.com/mo.htm
    They raise the serious possibility the Fed will have to embark on QE 2.0, Greenlaw is yet to explain why in the world the fed will raise rates during a private sector credit crunch
     
    #1535     Apr 2, 2010
  6. Daal

    Daal

    #1536     Apr 2, 2010
  7. The Dec 99 calls have pulled back to 33 and might drop a couple of more ticks today - that'll be more than a double if you are right. Are you buying more?
     
    #1537     Apr 2, 2010
  8. Daal

    Daal

    I'm waiting till I'm sure libor has stopped going up(its at short-term highs now). Also I'm curious how a big NFP number will affect all the Fed speeches
     
    #1538     Apr 2, 2010
  9. I'm pretty sure Bob Barberra just shot his load on CNBC. Haven't seen one of those on-air orgasms on squawk box since Maria used to do it regularly during the tech bubble.
     
    #1539     Apr 2, 2010
  10. Daal

    Daal

    #1540     Apr 5, 2010