This chart is to show how carry trade strategy is being hurt badly this year. Price of PowerShares DB G10 Currency Harvest (DBV) has lost, roughly, around -25% (from 27-ish to 20-ish) This is likely going to be a shitty year for carry traders. Here is the….CHART! [photopress:DBV_carry_Trade.jpg,full,1]
“Chart view” of Australia
[photopress:aussie_monthly.gif,full,1] We know Australian dollar is losing its ground recently. It is, in fact, the worst-performed currency in Asia Pacific for year 2008. (It reminds me, it used to be the top performer not long ago 😆 ) I had a look at monthly chart to have a view and feel how bad is the […]
Black Aussie Monday
OH Crap. AUDUSD falls below 0.75 for the first time in 2 years. Stock market took a tumble. All ordinaries lost around -3.3% today. What’s going on? On the paper, the reason, as expected, “people are expecting a 50bp rate cut tomorrow”. Well, probably. Anyway, it is indeed a bad day. Here are some random […]
Today’s Coffee thoughts
Again, I am sipping my daily morning Long Black..and I am going to share some thoughts here. NO..not about the bail out things. I don’t care. Market will go wherever it wanna go, do you really think the bail out package will turn the shitty market condition around? uhm…whatever… Ok, my fiancee and I take […]
What’s up? Aussie, aussie, aussie, oi oi oi
So, the House decided not to save the rich-men World. Dow index collapsed 777 points. Gold rallies now. But, where is Aussie dollar going? Decoupling from Gold movement? Australia is one of the largest gold exporters. Of course, this doesn’t guarantee the prosperity of australian dollar. But, what exactly is the problem of Australia economy? […]
Weekend rambling
I don’t have any chart to post now. Nothing interesting. For the past weeks, or months, I have been watching NQ and YM futures with some tradings in paper mode whenever I am available or awake. It is really tricky to start your trading day around 1130pm-ish. And the cold weather in Melbourne (it is […]
