Farewell to Kansas.
Author: therealheisenberg
Lured By Yacht Promise, E*Traders Opened 64,581 New Brokerage Accounts In January
And see it’s not so much that the timing was horrible as it is that the writing was on the wall.
‘This Is Poorly-Timed’: Credit Suisse Ups Rate Hike Forecast Amid Budget Boondoggle
Don’t say you weren’t warned.
‘Coincidence? We Don’t Think So’: Pinnacle In S&P P/E, Bitcoin Was ‘Peak Excitement’, Morgan Stanley Says
So watch bonds. And the dip buyers. Oh, and maybe Bitcoin, too…
Ray Dalio’s ‘Pretty Stupid’ People Are The Only Ones With Real Positive Returns In 2018
“If you’re holding cash”…
ETF Hot Potato! Investors Were Highly ‘Active’ In ‘Passive’ During Selloff
Well damn. That moved from “early-stage” to “advanced” de-risking pretty goddamn quickly, didn’t it?
Trump All Set To Worsen Bond Selloff With ‘Bigly’ Budget Boondoggle
He’s apparently going to just go ahead and abandon GOP dogma when it comes to balancing the budget.
Final Curtain? Full Week Ahead Preview
Is this it?
Here’s What The VaR Shock Meant For Global Portfolio Managers
Look, I realize that pounding the table on forced unwinds by vol.-sensitive investors during the recent acute pickup in volatility is quickly becoming an exercise in dead horse beating. But…
Bridgewater: ‘There’s A Much Bigger Shakeout Coming’
“There had been a lot of complacency built up in markets over a long time”…
Quant Crash: Human-Robot Blame Game Escalates As CTA, Risk Parity Scapegoating Reaches Fever Pitch
To fear them or not to fear them?
‘We Do Not Talk, We Act’: Israeli Shares Under Pressure Amid Serious Escalation In Syria
“We will continue to strike at every attempt to strike at us. This has been our policy and it will remain our policy.”
‘I’m A Minsky Moment, I’m Not THE Minsky Moment’
Listen, I mean there’s good news and there’s bad news and then there’s one simple question.
Release The Long End!
Well, damn.
David Stockman Bemoans ‘The Night Of Fiscal Infamy’
“We have crossed the fiscal Rubicon.”
‘Can You Feel The Tension?’ Grab The Scotch, History Says This Correction Could Get Deeper
“Can you feel the tension, in the air right now?”
Fidelity Literally Bans Retail Investors From The Short Vol. Trade Because Morons.
“Better late than never.”
If It Bleeds.
“…we can kill it.”
Trader: You’re Getting ‘Payback’ For Gains That Were ‘Borrowed, Not Earned’
You can’t keep papering over this by reminding people that it’s been one helluva ride on the way up or that over the long-run, things will be fine.
Are Junk ETFs About To Get Stress Tested As High Yield Cracks?
But remember, at some point people will start selling the underlying and that’s when shit gets really messy, especially if that selling ends up being prompted by massive outflows from the ETFs whose holders have no conception whatsoever of the underlying liquidity mismatch.Â
How Much Did CTAs And Risk Parity Sell During The Friday-Monday Bloodbath?
There are lingering questions.
David Stockman: Here Comes The Yield Shock
“That’s right. The taxpayers and future generations be damned. Apparently, it doesn’t matter how many small businesses, farmers and entrepreneurs get elbowed out of the capital markets by Uncle Sam’s $1 trillion per year borrowing spree: Mitchels & Chuckles intend to keep the Washington Monument open and the Imperial City’s 3.7 million employees paid in full come hell or high water.”

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