September 2006 ~ Macro Man

Hung, drawn, and quartered

As the quarter mercifully comes to an end, a few things have become obvious. Sometimes, the simplest strategy actually works. The SPX is up ...

1) So Vega is in the process of imploding. This explains the shocking performance of their (large) positions: short bonds, short NZD,...

Consider the following: 1) US fixed income trading well through funds/cash rate, pricing in 2.5 rate cuts for next year. This is a pseudo-re...

Talk about an anticlimax. The FOMC statement could be summarized in three sentences: 1) Growth is slowing; we think inflation will to...

Well, it’s all going horribly wrong. Macro Man took a loss on his one position that would currently be in the money (long EUR/JPY put), and...

1) So Hungary’s prime minister admits to a ‘ deluge of lies’ , and the HUF rallies from the London open yesterday. Anyone wearing los...

Record longs in the 10yr are beginning to tell, and there is no more room at the fixed income inn. The bond market looks set to do a bit of ...

Well, the IMF reclaimed the mantle of irrelevancy that it has proudly borne for sixty years, as little of substance emerged from the weekend...

This weekend sees the semi-annual confabulation of IMF grandees, G7 finance officials, and lucky boondoggle recipients convene on Singapore....

One of the more entrenched and hackneyed themes in financial markets today is that the implosion of the US housing market will be the final ...

Where to start? Macro Man has spent more than an hour just figuring out how to title a post and upload a chart. At this rate, the only insig...