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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory

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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (7364)2/8/2004 3:32:35 PM
From: Louis V. Lambrecht  Read Replies (1) of 110194
 
Haim - currency swings:
CBOT aggregate volume of Euro on the CME is on average 90k contracts (notional = *125 000) you trade with a performance bond of $2400

Worse are the newly introduced Forex trades, with a 200:1 leverage.
"No warning can save a people determined to grow suddenly rich." - Lord Overstone (motto of Safehaven.com)

Currencies speculation is all over the place, not only at the money center banks.
Financial bubble this is. <ng>

No one CB is rich enough to counter that sort of market, not even the Fed.
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