ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
What Put Call Ratios Are Telling Us | Minyanville.com We could have a similar pause to what we saw when Greece broke in January. (tags: options technical_analysis trading_strategy) Volcano casts cloud over European economy – CNN.com "While safety remains a non-negotiable priority, it is not incompatible with our legitimate request to reconsider the present restrictions," … Read more
I have a lot of respect for fund manager Doug Kass. His latest piece, “The Ramifications of the Goldman Sachs Case,” contextualizes the current push for financial reform, and it provides a succinct indictment of the practices that helped ignite the recent financial panic. However, I disagree with Kass’s casual link between the SEC’s charges … Read more
China Steps up Fight Against Property Speculation – ABC News Apparently, China (unlike the U.S. and many other countries) has a working definition of a bubble and is trying to be proactive in preventing its real estate market from overheating (and imploding) [my editorial] (tags: China mortgage real_estate bubbles)
The news has rippled across the globe that the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) finally got around to charging Goldman Sachs with fraud: “The SEC alleges that Goldman Sachs structured and marketed a synthetic collateralized debt obligation (CDO) that hinged on the performance of subprime residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). Goldman Sachs failed to disclose to … Read more
Greek bailout plan signals new world disorder – The Globe and Mail The world's borrowing woes are shifting from developing economies to their advanced counterparts, many of which are exiting the crisis shouldering heavy debt burdens. Tackling those burdens is a war that a host of governments will fight for years to come, with or … Read more