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- Exploring the Currency Carry Trade
- The Macro Trader submits: In our ETF based newsletter, the carry trade is one of the strategies that employ. For those unfamiliar with the carry trade, you are essentially trading the interest rate differentials of different countries. You short a low-yielding currency and go long a...
- External links 2009-06-02
- Is It Finally Time to Short the Euro?
- The Macro Trader submits: We have been bearish on the EUR/USD for some time now. Some investors are convinced that the USD is going down forever and that the US is the next Zimbabwe. The reality is that while the United States has a ton of issues such as...
- External links 2009-12-09
- Treasurys, Interest Rates and the MOVE Index
- The Macro Trader submits: We keep hearing that long term Treasury Bonds are going to tank and that we need to get short before they fall off a cliff. While this may very well happen, we doubt that it occurs anytime soon. We are not alone in...
- External links 2009-11-18
- Under-Funded Pension Funds, Real Returns and Buy and Hold
- The Macro Trader submits: One of the largest problems that seems to be getting little attention is that of the pension fund crisis. While it has yet to hit in earnest, it is definitely upon us. The basic problem is that due to poor returns, both nominal...
- External links 2009-11-12
- Interest Rates Trending Flat to Down Among the G-10
- The Macro Trader submits: While a lot has been made of the RBA raising Australia’s short term rates over the last week, the fact is that most of the world is not doing quite as well. Whereas Australia actually has some inflation, the United States, Japan, and Europe...
- External links 2009-10-16
- Macro Trading vs. S&P 500 1997-2009
- The Macro Trader submits: A lot is made of relative returns and how one strategy or fund does against the SP500. While not the best benchmark for something like Global Macro it is nonetheless the benchmark that everyone is most familiar with and that is used the most...
- External links 2009-10-08
- Question for the Fed: Where Has All the Money Gone?
- The Macro Trader submits: Gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme that which I desire, Can’t fight the need for speed, I’m loose, I’m clean, I’m burning lean and mean, and mean. by The Macro Trader
- External links 2009-10-01
- Trend Spotting: Global Interest Rates
- The Macro Trader submits: One of our favorite, as well as one of the best indicators that investors can follow is that of interest rates. Since we are global macro traders we follow interest rates across the globe for every country that we can find reliable data. ...
- External links 2009-07-17
- The Prospect of Deflation and What to Do About It
- The Macro Trader submits: We decided that it was worth sharing our views of the inflation/deflation debate with all of our readers. In our weekly newsletter we are already positioned to take advantage of some of the current as well as potential trends that will benefit from our...
- External links 2009-06-28
- Macro View on Treasuries
- The Macro Trader submits: Long term Treasury yields have been in a 30 year downtrend. As you can see in the chart below click to enlarge we are testing this downtrend line right now. 30-Year Treasury Yield by The Macro Trader
- External links 2009-06-17
- Time to Buy the Dollar?
- The Macro Trader submits: On Wednesday, we wrote about how we feel that the Euro is headed lower due to overvaluation, the technical picture and market positioning. In light of that we thought that we would show the technical picture of the US Dollar index. In...
- External links 2009-12-10
Additional Resources
- S&P 500 2009 Estimates Are All Over the Map
- Trader Mark submits: Quite an interesting piece from Bob Pisani's [CNBC] "blog" - the vast difference in 2009 estimates for the S&P 500 companies in the "top down" community versus "bottoms up". In English, top down are the macro economists or strategists who take a world view, whereas the bottoms...
- External links 2008-11-20
- The Last Days of the Long Investor?
- Trader Mark submits: A reader sent me a link to this site and I'm starting to read this more and more around the internet. Especially from people with gray beards (literally?) i.e. even the Doug Kass' s of the world. Sometimes I feel like I am incessantly whining about the...
- External links 2008-08-14
- Veteran trader launches G10 fund.
- Byline: Anuj Gangahar Michael Waresh, a former star trader at Goldman Sachs, has launched a global macro hedge fund focused on fixed income and G10 currency trading.Savannah Asset Management, the investment firm owned by Waresh, has received initial investment capital from a leading German...
- Research articles 2002-11-10
- Is the ECB Moving Towards an Exit Strategy?
- Macro Man submits: As we embark upon Thanksgiving week, thus ushering in the low-liquidity holiday silly-season, you can almost hear Slade (or is that Quiet Riot?) in your ear as you watch the screens. If you're a noise trader, there are rich pickings to be had; if you're a...
- External links 2009-11-23
- Trader's Market, Not a Macro Thematic One
- Macro Man submits: There is perhaps an element of poetic justice that on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, risk assets of virtually every description are attempting a moon shot of their own. News that CIT has avoided bankruptcy appears to be the catalyst, though...
- External links 2009-07-20
- Fuel Systems Solutions Has a Huge Quarter
- Trader Mark submits: Fuel Systems Solutions FSYS just put out a huge beat, but there is a goodwill charge of $3.9M or $0.25 which will cause confusion. Adding that non-cash charge back to results and they made $.54. Analysts were in at $0.27. While America sits on its hands, other...
- External links 2008-08-08
- Google Analyst: Board Drama, Falling Sales in the Wings
- Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry predicts Google’s revenue will fall in the next two years and the company is about to hit its adolescent stage with board conflicts and layoffs. In a research note, Chowdhry lays out the case. The gist: The economy is putting pressure...
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Calling Dr. Bernanke: Market Now Exhibiting Split Personality
- Clive Corcoran submits: For any investor and especially a macro trader who is looking to trade equity indices, foreign exchange and commodities, a key market global variable to monitor is the yield, and more importantly the direction of travel, of the ten year US Treasury Note. At the moment...
- External links 2009-05-02
- Traders Betting on 60%+ Rise in Silver
- Today’s trade of the day brings you the silver trade. Some wildly bullish options activity was seen in sizable purchases of the Silver ETF SLV. Investors expect as much of a 66% gain in silver prices over the coming two years. It would certainly be interesting to...
- External links 2009-11-19
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