November 2014 ~ Macro Man

So Sell Some Vol and Buy the Spoos

If you're bored of eating turkey and/or watching crude collapse, enjoy the lyrical stylings of friend-of-the-blog Leftback, who sends hi...

"Never short a quiet market," the saying goes. Well, does it get any more quiet than 5 SPX handles for an entire day's range...

26.1% : The amount that retail gasoline margins expanded in the United States last month, even as prices dropped $0.34/gallon. (Hat ti...

Bloomberg is running a story entitled " Yellen Inherits Greenspan's Conundrum as Long rates Sink ", noting the apparently inex...

The market is evidently coming to grips with the latest Japanese GDP "shocker", as is the political establishment. Japan has such...

If this led to this , how could regulators allow this if they were actually serious about stopping fraudulent behaviour?

Macro Man's a bit on auto-pilot at the moment. USD/JPY continues to be a star performer in FX land, with new rumours of potential snap ...

"Together with the series of targeted longer-term refinancing operations to be conducted until June 2016, these asset purchases will ...

Hard as it is to believe, it's already time for another ECB meeting. A lot of water has clearly passed over the bridge since the last ...

So here we are. It took six weeks, but Spooz are back at all time highs, albeit in the context of fairly unconvincing price action followin...