The classic difference between investing and trading is as follows. According to Investopedia, investors seek larger returns over an extended period of time through buying and holding. Traders, on the other hand, take advantage of both falling and rising markets to exit and enter positions over a shorter period of time taking smaller or more … Continue reading My trade thesis. Flip a dollar
Trade is an inappropriate word. As I shared in an earlier post, we are exchanging things that we own, but making bets on value that we can claim sometime in the future. We trade our expectations on growth. Continue reading Trade is an inappropriate word…
Proprietary trading. News trading. Singapore. “FNG has learned that a number of leading (and not-so-leading) retail prop trading firms have begun to implement rules for their clients that restrict the trades that can be made (or, profit that can be booked) by traders immediately around major news events. The practice, known as News Trading, is … Continue reading Prop trader news scan as of 8:47 am EST. What is a prop trade challenge? Labor estimates miss.
U.S. District Court, SDNY, Jane Street, Millennium Management, proprietary trade. “A former Jane Street Group trader who moved to Millennium Management ridiculed his former employer’s claims that he used its secret strategy to make a killing at his new job in India’s options market.” — Bloomberg, MSN. CoinW Exchange, Dubai. CoinW Exchange, a leading force … Continue reading Prop Trade News Scan as of 11:55 am AST. What is “front running?”
Today’s rates …. 30-Day Federal Funds Futures: 94.69. Effective Federal Funds Rate: 5.33%. Interest on Reserve Balances: 5.40%. Discount Window: 5.50%. CME FedWatch: 96.8%. EUR/USD=1.0931. GBP/USD=1.2594. USD/JPY=149.6608. (Foreign exchange rates as of 7:38 pm EDT.) Today’s definition … Federal funds rate-the interest rate at which depository institutions lend reserve balances to other depository institutions overnight. … Continue reading What is the federal funds rate? Should the Fed worry about not meeting its mandates under law?
The issue for me is whether the Federal Reserve is acting as a regulator of the interbank market or are banks regulating themselves, using the fed funds rate and IORB as caps and borrowing from the discount window when there is no other choice. Continue reading Is the Federal Reserve really not needed?
The takeaway … I received a view of my blog from Morocco. That is the cool thing about this blog; I get to engage with people from around the world. I have never been to Morocco or the African continent for that matter. My son has been to Morocco and I have family in The … Continue reading Something stands out about foreign exchange broker spreads for the US dollar and Moroccan dirham.
The takeaway …. The Federal Open Market Committee is expected to announce no change in the target range for the federal funds overnight rate. The current target range is 5.25-5.50%. The federal funds rate is the rate banks charge for lending their reserves to each other overnight. The current effective (weighted) rate is approximately 5.33%. … Continue reading Foreign exchange, fed funds futures, and bond yields as of 9:35 am EST
30-day Federal Funds Futures: 94.55 Interest on Reserve Balances: 5.40% Discount Window Rate: 5.50% Effective Federal Funds Rate: 5.33% EUR/USD: 1.0571 GBP/USD: 1.2202 We will circle back around later today after taking a look at Federal Reserve sentiment and any other political action that may impact the betting markets. Banks broker the bets. Lawyers write … Continue reading Interbank market: At 8:29 am EST. Federal Reserve reference rates and fed funds options rate.
Lawyers Write the Bets. Bankers Sell the Bets. 