Financial topics

[John]

I guess things haven't changed -- good news is good news,
and bad news is good news.

[vincecate]

I guess things haven't changed -- good news is good news,
and bad news is good news.

The TLT bond ETF is down 0.5% and the S&P is up 1.71%. I think the bond traders are smarter. Eventually the stock buyers will be punished.

[aedens]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-1 ... mc-release

Note the peak occurred about 50 seconds before the FOMC announcement.

As noted before also punished for 25 ms

What is the first thing you flip on in the morning, so as always not all stocks are equal either.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-1 ... en-appears


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-1 ... inger-rout

Remember this being picked up by other algos it appears and seriously abused now.
http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... vix#p19415

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/quants ... alchemists it feels no pity or remorse

http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4508.html

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/credit-su ... 00617.html

The sec will only zip up body bags after they brush vanilla's brains off the sidewalk when these also's run them over......

Make reg t apply to settled acounts and these 25 ms raids go away. They are kiting acounts IMO.

[gerald]

A minor detail -- "what? me worry?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_E._Neuman


"The CFTC ----- "has informed us that due to a…technical coding issue, the notional values in the interest rate asset class have been understated." The agency also reported "a processing error" by a separate repository operated by CME Group Inc. A CME spokeswoman didn't respond to a request for comment. A CFTC official characterized the data problems as "growing pains." The agency formally began to report swaps data on a weekly basis just last month."

"Oh that's ok then, after all what's a little eletronic $55,000,000,000,000 shuttling back and forth between insolvent counterpa"

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-1 ... 5-trillion

[aedens]

A minor detail -- "what? me worry?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_E._Neuman


"The CFTC ----- "has informed us that due to a…technical coding issue, the notional values in the interest rate asset class have been understated." The agency also reported "a processing error" by a separate repository operated by CME Group Inc. A CME spokeswoman didn't respond to a request for comment. A CFTC official characterized the data problems as "growing pains." The agency formally began to report swaps data on a weekly basis just last month."

"Oh that's ok then, after all what's a little eletronic $55,000,000,000,000 shuttling back and forth between insolvent counterpa"

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-1 ... 5-trillion

http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... aps#p20965

SEC Permits Portfolio Margining of Credit Default Swaps

Now you know the vix story, well some, I will get to that.....

This should sound familar to those who get it.... and those working to avoid the facts before in this rendition we call today...

Credit Was Diverted from Production to Speculation: Among the financial results of the stock-market boom were the following: In the United States credit was diverted from production to speculation, and increasing amounts of funds were being drained from the economic system into the stock market, where they circulated around and around, building up the prices of securities. In Germany it became increasingly difficult to borrow from the United States, and the foreign loans, which kept the German financial system and the whole system of reparations and war debts functioning, were shifted from long-term loans to precarious short-term credits. This Covers Benny and the Inkjets current landing procedure trying to land on a moving ship now herding International Central Banking cats.

Just substitute the middle kingdom for the french back then as the rate to paper to gold. When the French gold purchases became noticeable in 1928, the Federal Reserve Bank adopted open market operations to counterbalance them, buying securities to a value equal to the French purchases of gold.
The stock-market boom in the United States was really much more drastic than is indicated by these index numbers, because these are yearly averages, and include sluggish stocks as well as market leaders. The boom began as far back as 1924, as can be seen, and reached its peak in the fall of 1929. By the spring of 1929 it had become a frenzy and was having profound effects on business activity, on domestic and international finance, on the domestic affairs of foreign countries, and on the psychology and modes of life of Americans.

http://www.natlawreview.com/article/sec ... ault-swaps

http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... lla#p19393

We are mere actors on another veiled stage. http://vixandmore.blogspot.be/2010/12/t ... s-and.html

[aedens]

Precious metals stocks are slammed at the open from weakening prices for underlying metals, and the Market Vectors Gold Miner ETF (GDX -2.1%) opens at a new 52-week low. GFI -2.8%, AUY -2.4%, AU -3.8%, RGLD -2.7%, NEM -3.1%, ABX -2.1%, GG -2.4%, AGI -3.2%, AEM -2.3%, SLW -2.6%, KGC -1.9%, FNV -1.6%, CDE -1.5%, EGO -1.5%, NGD -1.2%, HMY -1.2%.

I will wait Higg but I did pick up some gdx and mentioned i would pick some up and did a short time ago.
As we seen the 5 year note and gold was diffuse for sure. Unsure on wti target price for now so as noted
already put off dno and uso for now also.

As noted dec16th GDX and GDXJ (mostly GDX) ankle deep for now and not a bad idea H but will let
Dr. Copper set the tempo first IMO on deeper trends.

Also not surprised either at all.... http://www.etftrends.com/2013/04/gold-m ... ed-sector/

meanwhile back at the ranch DGZ 04:00pm EST 15.91+2.38% 15.75 15.92 day 2,614,772 average 231,164

alot of black feathers jethro

[aedens]

70 x 7

http://gulagbound.com/43271/asking-for- ... ist-email/

Pray for both

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

Joseph Keysor October 10, 2013 at 7:24 pm
Concerning positivism – the belief that scientific knowledge is the only true knowledge, that by it we can reach an objectively true understanding of reality – the Christian writer Francis Schaeffer has some very constructive comments. In his book He is There and He is not Silent, Schaeffer asserts that “positivism has died . . . positivism is not a sufficient epistemology . . . the hope of modern science to have any certain knowledge [based on external data alone] is doomed to failure . . . there is probably not a chair of philosophy of importance in the world today that teaches positivism. It is still held by the undergraduate and the naïve scientist who, with a happy smile on his face, is building on a foundation that no longer exists . . . ”

[aedens]

http://bearmarkettrading.blogspot.com.au/

When does the leakage out to ES stop?

a sideways "Austrian" market, in which no new credit-money money comes in or leaves.

still waiting for now

[John]

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/12/cartoo ... overnment/

[aedens]

Good website for .gov stats
algo fishheads and vix bots to save you from yourself.
Good luck.....