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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RockyBalboa who wrote (21903)	8/11/2009 6:33:25 AM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71456

The gross market value for OTC derivatives was 33.889 Trillion in December, while the notional came down from 600 T to 500 T. That's when vol. was high and the markets were in distress. I would be interested in what happened in June. My bet is the gross market value came down substantially, while the notional value shot up higher. If so, the Ponzi was not cured, just re-inflated. Thus, one still needs to trade with the models, as these became stronger than ever. For comparison, global stock market capitalization was also 30 Trillion or so in December.