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If you've come here to find my threads on things like the BBB series, backtesting or random macro musings, they are compiled into Moments and added below for easy referencing.
Enjoy and remember kids, "Embrace the carry and ignore the fat left tail."
Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall:
"It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'."
YOU SHOULD BE ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED RIGHT NOW โ THAT IS THE PROPER REACTION TO A BANK RUN & CONTAGION
@POTUS
&
@SecYellen
MUST GET ON TV TOMORROW AND GUARANTEE ALL DEPOSITS UP TO $10M OR THIS WILL SPIRAL INTO CHAOS
Welcome to Bond Basics with Bloomberg series (BBB). This is the main thread that will slowly build with each new topic I cover. Each topic will be its own mini-thread which will then be linked via retweet to this main thread. That way we'll have an organised series of chapters!
"Chair Powell, I have two questions. When you said 'JUST CLOSE THE FUCKING DOOR' did you have any discussion as to the pace of closing the fucking door? And my second question is, was closing of the fucking door a unanimous opinion amongst the board? Thank you."
An absolute MUST READ on Bloom today about the private credit market. In a nutshell
- ppl invest because there's no trade so pricess don't move (artifically low vol)
- marks in funds are all over the place
- private funds mark higher than regular mutual funds who own the same
The reason why I bring up the neutral rate is because I think the market is actively debating it without realizing it or explicitly saying so.
Much of the consternation around Fed pricing right now is how many cuts is appropriate this year, but that implies that cuts themselves
Today's one of those days we have to balance the objectivity of our jobs with the humanity of the events. We can be joyful at making money from the safety of our desks but tactful enough to respect those hiding in fear underneath theirs.
Have a dood day, I hope tmr is better.
Taking the day off today, so just gonna revise some bond basics. Been toying with doing a series on Bond Basics with Bloomberg as a running thread. Thoughts?
Anyway, ever wondered how Bloomberg calculates the Cheapest to Deliver bonds for a futures contract?
So many bbg screenshots of CS CDS levels and talking about massive default prob numbers. Zero people actually using same terminal to look at default risk screen...
What you guys need to realize is that every bond manager out there is currently looking at long end yields and thinking of when to buy, not when to sell.
Dear Charlie,
It's not that everything is quiet now that you're gone, it's that my world sounds different.
The ambient hums that ping around the house now meet your empty bed,
And I don't like life's new song percussioned by the absence of you.
My ears drag my eyes to some
@alexandersblume
@NeriOxman
There is nothing more important in my life right now; we have an amazing team at Pershing Square; we have come a long way since I was a key man; we are a long term owner so we donโt make many decisions a year; and I work mostly on weekends, vacations, and evenings on my long
*DID YOU HEAR EMH TURNED HIS BBB SERIES INTO A BOOK?
And it's free! Now you can learn how AND why you lose money trading bonds! \('o')/
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@Macrodesiac
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1/2 MY GOODNESS was the 5yr UST-bill auction today an utter DISASTER. What do I mean? Well... MASSIVE tail + huge fall-off in indirect demand = D- grade. And, to think,
@SecYellen
still has around $2tn left to issue, and China is talking about SELLING UST bonds.
I've seen things you traders wouldn't believe... Reds on fire off the shoulder of Black Monday... I watched Golds glitter in the dark near an intermeeting cut. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die.
๐ชฆRIP EDs. 1981 - 2023
GS:
"It has long held that lower equity markets yield higher implied volatility (VIX) and higher equity markets yield lower implied volatility (VIX)
the last 10 sessions have broken that โstandardโ to a degree not seen in 30+ years"
As promised, a thread on my approach to building a rules-based model. There's no perfect way, you won't get a blueprint of what I do, just how I approach a systematic trading model. I hope this provides some value in constructing a strategy, rules-based or not!
Let's go!
We're moving 50pts a day on ES easily.
We're moving 8bps a day on 10Y easily.
And it's starting to be normal with little chatter.
When incrementalism normalises the previously chaotic, that's how true cataclysms are created.
US10s swapped back to yen yield ~0.056% currently. So you can start to see why allowing JGB10s to rise above 0.5% starts to become an attractive proposition for japanese bondholders and a negative flow dynamic for ROW
The BBB Series, Topic 5: Credit, Part 2 โ Credit Risk
Today we'll learn ways to quantify credit risk, namely through various spreads that are often quoted, what they measure, how/when to apply them and their differences. This is the backbone of credit analysis. Letโs begin.
I was holding my 2yr old daughter on a walk moments ago and for the first time out of nowhere she said
โThat motherfucker is not realโ
I started to tear up. She couldnโt see my face and I didnโt make a sound, but she said
โJust strip out food, energy, shelter and carsโ
"Mr. Powell I saw an overlay of the fed balance sheet against stonks, I mean stocks, and the balance sheet has plateaued and doesn't that imply tha- "
"Have you seen where the NASDAQ is? Little shit."
CTA Supply. GS systematic strats team estimates that $40B worth of S&P was sold over the last 5 days, which is the fastest 5 day sell / unwind in our dataset.
The BBB Series โ Topic 4: Futures & Options โ Part 1: Introduction to Bond Futures
Interest rates futures extend from short term (money market futs) out to longer dated rates such as US treasuries, German bunds, Italian BTPs, Australian Govt bonds, etc
For those that are unaware - you can register an account with Moody's for free and get daily reports from them on credit, market outlooks, macro topics, etc.
It's a decent way to get institutional-type market reports that every now and then have some interesting points.
The funny thing about this chart that went around last week is that no one mentioned how the market keeps UNDERestimating how much the Fed hikes once the hiking cycle starts and the same when cuts come in - BofA's insane call for 7 this year notwithstanding.
The BBB Series โ Topic 7: Part 1 โ Introducing Interest Rate Swaps
Today's focus is on the mechanics of swaps, mainly interest rate swaps. The objective is an understanding of what's being quoted and why. It'll be intense but the key will be developing an intuition for the mkt.
The BBB Series โ Topic 5: Credit. Part 1 โ Introduction, Trade terms and Bond Structures
Letโs start by defining some terms that get thrown around in bondtwit. Bonds are just any fixed income instruments but corporate bonds are generally what we mean by โcreditโ.