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Dollar Dislocating From Stocks, YEN-EUR Carry In Lockstep With S&P

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As the dollar picks up steam intraday, HFTs take over market action (it is a low volume day after all) after the two trading in lockstep early in the morning. The complete lack of market logic is somehow completely not surprising.

And while the DXY is higher, the only thing pushing stocks in any direction is the YEN-EUR trade now and every day for the past 3 weeks, yet the carry trade impact on DXY is lost due to GBP and other currency noise.




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Tue, 09/08/2009 - 14:52 | Link to Comment Ivanovich
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FX just got ahead of itself momentarily, that's all. 

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 14:55 | Link to Comment deadhead
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so, i love all the talk about traders returning from vacation.

what volumes? what traders?  Sam from Sheepshead Bay and Joe from Brooklyn? WTF?

maybe the computers are up to 80%+ on volume?

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:02 | Link to Comment TumblingDice
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One possible answer to this question is that the big players are waiting for something else altogether, something that we don't know about yet. But that's pure speculation.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:12 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:22 | Link to Comment Cognitive Dissonance
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CNBS, all the news we should have told you last week but didn't.

It's like one big echo chamber at the studios day after day. After a while, they begin to believe their own propaganda.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:01 | Link to Comment Jeanbon
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Sometime we are to close to the markets...

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:05 | Link to Comment Gabriel Gray
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Is it ever logical. Certainly not without human interaction.

My logic, Dollar/Gold both completing reversal days

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:10 | Link to Comment Jeanbon
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the yen has to strengthen a little bit more :-)

Please Mr. Durden, give me the SPY vs. USD Yen 

Chart! Looks very interesting, I tried

in the office but the bloomberg to be honest

is not my home base...

 

Wed, 09/09/2009 - 06:33 | Link to Comment FreddyInBangkok
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try this

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$ONE:$XJY&p=W&yr=3&mn=0&dy=0&id=p36506822810

&

 

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$XEU:$XJY&p=W&yr=3&mn=0&dy=0&id=p27608382775

 

note yield curve in lower box

 

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/9950/1207v.png

 

 

 

 

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:07 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:11 | Link to Comment TumblingDice
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http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g19/Current/

Consumer credit drops by ~24 Billion dollars from June to July, down about 10% yoy

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:11 | Link to Comment Sardonicus
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Yes drop was 6 times greater than forecast and the prior report was revised to show that credit dropped 50% more than was reported last time

 

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:32 | Link to Comment Joe Sixpack
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Scary: we're going from less worser to more worser. How will they spin this?

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:12 | Link to Comment walküre
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No credit?

Bad credit?

No problem!

Eat cake!

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:19 | Link to Comment Bankster T Cubed
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May and June revised significantly lower as well

DOES NOT IMPACT THE MARKETS BECAUSE THE MARKETS ARE TOTALLY 100% PURE FARCE

Nothing matters so long as the banksters/fed control everything.  Not a fucking thing.  Prices move according to their script.

Next stop: Pitchfork Rebellion

Wed, 09/09/2009 - 01:38 | Link to Comment matthylland
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dead bodies on the ground could decompose and grow GREEN SHOOTS though! buy any rebellion!

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:14 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:23 | Link to Comment Bankster T Cubed
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I cannot explain it, I can only testify to its all-importance.

I imagine it has something to do with a G20 stock-propping program that involves currency swaps ....or something.

the main takeaway is that the markets are 1) controlled, and 2) total fucking bullshit

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:42 | Link to Comment Jeanbon
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The big carry trade used to be euro-yen and usd-yen.

But at the end, the yen was the carry for everything.

But since the FED throws money around like we 

are seeing now, the USD became a carry currency

as well. So this complicates things a little bit in the

forex markets. But the question is which trade is 

the biggest right now, and I believe that the yen

carry is huge. The other question is who wins the

race to Zero. The Japanese or the US Central bank.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:17 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:00 | Link to Comment chumbawamba
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The dollar broke .78 on the USDX.  Apparently, no one noticed.  Or cares.

Butter up those dollars because they is toast.

I am Chumbawamba.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:06 | Link to Comment Jeanbon
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support is 77.5 in the US Dollar Index, then we could

drop 3 %, but support is support, and we just

have to look at price behavior, when it gets hit.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:12 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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