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IB Blasts Preemptive Margin Hike Warning
The brokers are getting pissy again - it must be that time of the month again....when vol is about to surge. In a blast to all exchange members, Interactive Brokers has just warned of imminent margin hikes due to "the recent spike in volatility of various commodity products." Of course, expecting vol (just like inflation), one can argue, is more important than even experiencing it. And it promptly becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In other words, should other brokers and/or exchanges follow suit with this preemptive margin hike warning, it may be time to step to the sidelines. Then again, in centrally planned, manipulated stock (and now all other) markets, this is easily the best decision regardless...
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To:CDE,CFE,DTB,ECBOT,ELX,FTA,GLOBEX,HKFE,IDEM,IPE,KSE,LIFFE,MATIF,MEFFR,V,
MEXDER,MONEP,NSE,NYBOT,NYMEX,NYSELIFFE,OMS,OSE.JPN,SNFE,SGX,SOFFEX, TSEJ traders:
Tue May 24 13:52:36 2011 ESTPlease be advised that, in light of the recent spike in volatility of various commodity products, and in an effort to more accurately reflect price risk for such contracts, we will be enhancing the methodology used to identify and price this risk. As a result, the house required margin may be greater than the Exchange-required margin in specific, high volatility products. In order to minimize the impact of this enhancement, any margin increases will be implemented gradually, beginning with today's intra-day parameter refresh. Please monitor and manage your risk accordingly.
h/t London Dude Trader
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PHYSICAL BITCHEZ!
True, but this is like the government saying it's an issue of National Security.
Don't worry b/c Eric PlaceHolde & Team Obama caught the evil oil speculators who were interfering with Bernanke's brilliant monetary policy implementation (hint, don't look for JPM or GS anywhere in the thick plot)!!!!!!!!
LMFAO
US Commodity Regulator Sues Oil TradersThis is the laughableness of central "market" values for items. Gaming the system because there is a system to game.
To be fair to the CME, after the smashing in the first half of May, silver is much more stable now. There has been almost no vol the last 7 days. A good time to go long calls with the low vol.
Looks like silver popped a boner on this news. How can they go after oil speculators when THE OIL SPECULATORS WERE IN THE WHITEHOUSE ALL ALONG??? (ghost noises)
http://www.businessinsider.com/lloyd-blankfein-laura-white-house-state-dinner-2011-1
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Wow. Remind me to never, ever, ever use Interactive Brokers.
I dunno. Another way to look at it is that this brokerage is attempting to level the playing field by telegraphing to the little fish what the inside players know hours/day earlier.
Yep, there was a slight uptick in the CRB Index today, so the "inflation fighters" at the Fed are putting the word out to all the wire houses to "get ready to rumble" with more margin hikes.
Next step will be to raise margins on all put options in the following sectors:
Banking
Brokerage
Retail
REITs
Consumer Discretionary
Youre so gay MomoFader.
I have to agree. Only taunts that worked when I was in high school are appropriate for the mome-ster.
Can you post a chart of BIDU? Bullish close.
Translation: We trade in a sandbox vs our clients and they are kicking our asses. We feel it is time to return to the scene of the crime and double dip. We promise we will stop when we break even.
So who is really the degenerate gambler?
Silver, when it goes up, it's dangerous volatility.
When it sits at $35 for a week, it's dangerous volatility.
When it falls 30% in a couple of weeks due to their manipulations in the market, that is healthy market behavior.
Be super careful with "Satan's Metal". Not only is it volatile, but it can damn your eternal soul to hell.
I am impervious to silver bullets. 1000oz silver bars on the other hand...
Wait, blythe is satan? I thought that position was already taken by Ben?
so what would you call this we are in?
Better get on the horn to Asia, because your trading session is almost over.
The panic is palpable.
Would the last trader to leave the futures market please turn the lights off.
Notice the panic selling into the bell by the commodity stocks.
Can't blame them.
Why stand in front of a moving train operated by Uncle Gorilla, who is bound and determined to run over all commodity speculators?
'Panic selling'!!! Oh wait....hardly down at all, most commodities up....just more drama from ZH lead drama queen MomoFader.
Panic selling by JPM to bang the close on silver, sure. Don't worry momo, they manage to cancel most of the 10,000 trades they do, so it doesn't cost JPM too much (so your checks will keep coming).
And here it comes folks, the predictable pseudo-panic selling in the last minute of trading...wait for it...wait for it...
Blythe is one predictable bitch. She should vary the shit up once in a while.
SLV vs SPY. Over the next 12 months. The former will outperform. See you here next May.
GG
OK, so do the HFbots get a litlle more juice when everybody else gets a margin hike?
I'm picturing Turbo Tim and Benny Bux at the Lionel transformers, pushing the levers all the way to "10".
Of course they are wearing their engineer coveralls and caps.
OK, so do the HFbots get a litlle more juice when everybody else gets a margin hike?
I'm picturing Turbo Tim and Benny Bux at the Lionel transformers, pushing the levers all the way to "10".
Of course they are wearing their engineer coveralls and caps.
Terrible looking close for the bulls...probably means we'll be up 125 tomorrow. BTFD bitchez
Probably means you have no idea what youre doing.
Using the "Technical analysis is a tool for baiting shorts" theory, he's probably correct. They'll just pump in an extra billion after hours to guarantee the "Futures are up, indicating that the recovery is intact" morning news.
The war for JULY sillver is about to begin.
GG
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Anybody who has a brain is putting his/her money into commodities. They'll always be worth more than the FED cotton.
And time is ending. It's not like they can prepare for another few Q's or even a year.
Anybody who doesn't own AT LEAST 20% of his/her assets in PM's is a fool these days.
Exactly, and dont forget the not so precious metals as well formed into things like AR 15's and ammo!
Those are the most precious ones to me...
They're all precious to me :)~
Have Gun(s)...will travel! (A lot of ammo, too!)
Ohhh they must be talking about this spike from today.
http://i55.tinypic.com/2nlv4fq.png
Nice graph. Maybe I'll go long lumber (its going to attract a lot less attention than S-I-L-V-E-R...shhhh).
Is anyone else watching the minute to minute action of the silver and gold charts at the close? There is an epic battle going on.
EDIT: The silver beach ball just keeps popping up with every attempt to keep it down. It's intermission time, everyone grab some popcorn. The real show will start on Asian hours (remember those sucker Chinese who are hoovering up the silver - don't they know you can dig it out of the ground for 5 bucks?).
EDIT: I think someone is fucking around with Blythe and is going to thwart her standard bang the close. People, if you want to play the game, the last thing you should be is 100% predictable.
The Fed declares "World War" on oil speculators.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-feds-war-on-oil-market-gamers-2011-...
Since the CFTC can't find it's proverbial ass with both proverbial hands, it's doubtful this will go anywhere.
However, it's great grist for the re-elect the president effort.
And it seems to me there is already a CFTC investigation in the queue on Silver manipulation by the Morgue (that's manipulation _downward_ - just thought I had to be explicit with the replicant momofader, lest he get confused).
This will all blow over soon and they can go back to surfing porn during work hours.
The war is on physical stockpiling. Read how the UK Parliament openly admits there is a "Monopoly Supplier" in the metals market.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmsctech/726/...
Now who could that supplier be selling all that paper silver...let's think...
Exactly, the same people who cornered %80 of the copper warehouse supply. So hoarding a commodity is now considered illegal except for bonifide hedgers.
If no one buys the sell siders bullshit, commissions go way down, and baby needs a new pair of shoes!
Uncle Bernanklecide, can we get POMOonSteroids for the Wall Street WIC?
I wonder when the guardians at Ft. Knox are going to openly admit that there is no gold left in the vaults, however, they are now chest-puffing about being a "Monopoly Supplier" of "Short Gold at Market" COMEX order tickets?
Momo, why do you always try to bang the close on the commodities threads?
This looks to be risk management rather than manipulation.
uh right. Wouldn't it _always_ look like risk management? Its panic at the disco baby.
Satan's Metal puts in a good showing, testing the $36.60 resistance line, 10 times (it's a good thing that there is no price manipulation going on).
Gold is starting to rocket up.
Asian trading hours will be interesting to watch.
I'd expect an all out margin hike assault in 24 hours. No doubt Obama, Biden and Hillary will be in the situation room, crowded around a monitor, watching the takedown.
I'll be interesting to see how the takedown proceeds. It seems to me that it has to be bigger than the previous actions, otherwise it will be ineffective. I guess we'll know in 24 hours.
Actually, I think it is a good thing that IB does it ahead of CFTC or CME do it. IB limits the margin will actually reduces their income. Fewer trades and fewer comissions, it is not in their interests. But it helps it's customers for not having to force closing their positions.
And any margin raising action of CME and CFTC won't be impacting much. It is softening the blows.
Actually, I think it is a good thing that IB does it ahead of CFTC or CME do it. IB limits the margin will actually reduces their income. Fewer trades and fewer comissions, it is not in their interests. But it helps it's customers for not having to force closing their positions.
And any margin raising action of CME and CFTC won't be impacting much. It is softening the blows.
The price and risk models, circa Prodigy Online, need to be updated. Whoops, we can't access the file because it needs Windows 3.1.
Sure we should of noticed sooner, but it hadn't been on our minds until....Ben B...nevermind
The price and risk models, circa Prodigy Online, need to be updated. Whoops, we can't access the file because it needs Windows 3.1.
Sure we should of noticed sooner, but it hadn't been on our minds until....Ben B...nevermind
Might explain why everything looks like a sell
http://deadcatbouncing.blogspot.com/
Have you considered perhaps that gold and silver might be allowed to climb to smack the pesky dollar down this time? I canno t help but wonder at this possibility, after all we have a race to the bottom to win. Let gold climb, smack oil, drive the dollar down, and get a 20% retracement and base both allowing QEIII and allowing the market to perhaps have a few equities that are not outrageously overvalued to have a rally on. I suppose that would mean unexpected weakness in the large cap stocks...
Well.. that is all just guesswork and theories, nothing solid but perhaps worth considering as possible. My instincts make me fear this path though... so I cannot help but consider it.