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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael Bidder who wrote (14414)10/6/1998 9:04:00 AM
From: Daniel Chisholm  Respond to of 18691
 
Yes, I think the Yen is a short.

However, that is completely separate from what my post was about - I was trying to explain how you can "synthetically" borrow yen to (e.g.) finance your USD house mortgage. That is, borrowing USD, and shorting an equivalent amount of Yen. Very much like how a "covered call" is synthetically equivalent to a "short put"

See also: carry trade; hedge funds unwinding; Japanese banking problems ;-)

- Daniel


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