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Intraday Cross-Asset Compression Arbitrage Opportunity
Two interesting charts indicate that following the earlier S&P announcement, which for the first time saw a risk aversion reaction that resulted in a selloff in equities and bonds, the 10 Year is surprisingly rich to the ES. In fact, a quick look at the chart below shows that while most asset pair (FX, Crude, ES) continue to correlate tightly following the downgrade, the 10 Year point is a major outlier. What is even more curious is that while the 10 Year may be outlying notably, the actual curve itself, as depicted by the 2s10s30s continues to correlate perfectly with ES despite some earlier choppiness. For those so inclined, an appropriate convergence trade would be a 2s10s30s neutral: essentially locking out for parallel curve shifts to moves in the ES, while trading the 10 Year spot for a compression trade with the ES, but keeping the wings of the butterfly constant as both the ES and the 10 Year is bought. This trade makes even more sense if the Fed proceeds with one of its late MOVE dumps, whereby it sells vol via off-balance sheet SPVs.
Cross asset correlation:
ES-2s10s30s:
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Now it is down to only a one day plunge in interest rates to re-invigorate the Animal Spirits to get the fund managers to start diving head first back into tech stocks???
The pressure to score the most beautiful Russian escorts at The Hamptons this summer must be unbearable.
Huge amount of performance anxiety.
Which one is your mother?
One of the parasites in the water.
thanks, RT! i've always been partial to the wildebeest. mother-in-law, probably...
Now THAT made my day.
Not mine. Robo needs to inflate the boobs. New chick is flat chested.
If you want us to inflate stocks again, start with the boobs. Bring back busty or something top heavy.
I junked you because only a loser feels any pressure to score a Russian escort.
I junked you for failing to detect irony.
still dreaming like walty mitty that you're a player. guess you'll have to live vicariously through the lives of those in the hampton's that you so envy.
meanwhile, as you would bray, for real performance anxiety look at your own widows and orphans portfolio, then gander at gold and silver which you so desperately hoped would drop more than 1% this morning.
btw: gentleman jim sinclair sends warm regards, and condolences for your ever shrinking seed capital as the walls creep ever closer in your 600 square feet apartment.
Robo is the one out front jumping right into the croc's mouth yelling 'retail stock can not be stopped'!
OK, I don't know whether to get this "opportunity" translated by a financial analyst or a lepidopterist....
Occasionally on zerohedge they have articles of lingo-laden technicality to the point that I'm pretty sure I have no fucking idea what they are talking about.
This is one of those times!
When in doubt, just fake it.
Oh, right.. ahem...
BTFD bitches!
yes we have the wisdom of steve finally - deficit cutting may be too much. and mr. isanea
confirming we should go slow on stopping the spending orgy
Cross Asset compression arbitrage. I like the way that sounds. I roll it on my tongue like poetry from Lord Byron. Translated.. BTFD
Tips and views only a HF manager could appreciate. IT is still enjoyable to and sometimes profitable to work on the periphery. Great work as always Tyler, Mr T.D.!
wheat ripping
Bens preffered wya for u to lookit this "arb" is to buy shite outta Spoos...BTFD and then by more
I junked Robot because, I, um, am just following the herd.
10-year is only "surprisingly rich" to the ES IF you embrace your unspoken assumptions.
IF, on the other hands, matters Euro are seen to be going south faster than the $US, the later currency will return, if only for the year, to safe haven status, and Treasuries in general could be expected to rise.
Not what the herd wants to believe just now. WHich is one of the resaon I am preparing for it.
Paging Tyler: You, or rather, your site, got a mention at the Socionomics Summit in Atlanta.
Jasper, thanks for getting it. Another reason why this "compression" may not happen is liquidity removal that's about to commence (or at least perception of such). 10-year yields were going higher during QE2 because of the inflation fears. Now that QE2 is ending, deflationary concerns will be back on the table.
Whether the Fed continues to "support" the market or not, is somewhat irrelevant. They are going out of their way to signal that liquidity will be pulled back, and that's enough for a few months worth of 10-year rallying.
AAPL ripping to the upside.
Now green.
When do those guys report??? Heh, somebody is frontrunning another blowout quarter.
keep posting. it'll take your mind off your own poor investing performance.
btw: how's that jpm trade working? what's it down, 10% since you bought it? russian hookers? more like shrinkage for you little guy.
Load up on it then bigmouth! However be careful, as 1 Apple share=1 month of your $10 a day food budget!
is it a buying opportunity? or is it "have i got a bridge to sell you in New York" ala Bernie Madoff? We've all been told "it only has to do with confidence." Well "is that all it is? A Confidence Game?" Or is it as Alan Greenspan said "how is one to know when an IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE has taken hold?" I'm told "i'm suppose to care" vis a vis such exuberance...that the "housing bubble was all Alan Greenspan's fault." Really? Well if i can't understand even MORAL failings let alone finance one's then should i be concerned about bailouts? how about inflation or "the failure of the Federal Government to agree on a budget"? Why do I keep hearing a voice in my head saying "character ALWAYS counts" whatever else be said?
Didn't they close down a bunch of online poker games recently? I wonder if the payouts for the online games were actually better than the stock market... lol... gotta close down competition. Watch out Vegas and Atlantic City, you will be next.
Hardly, Vegas and AC pay taxes - on-line poker not so much...QED
here's the arbitrage rule I go by:
The angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the meat.
Buy the drip.
As usual, massive, massive BUY volume come in on SPY to prop the entire market up. The volume in all the other S & P stocks that supposedly make up SPY have a fraction of the volume... but of course get dragged higher.
I read it, then I read it again and yet I have no idea what I just read...
Just BTFD. All a head fake sos's the big boyz could steal cheap USTs to sell to Berskanky.
Problem with a spread like this is you have to identify what the dip is. Beyond my paygrade but any explanation of how to ID the high and low part of the spread and what to do would be informative. It would save doing the work myself which is attractive to those of us who are "motivationally challenged".
ok, tyler, as long as we keep the wings of the butterfly, i'll sell a spot 10 for the compression trade for the ES. why?, i have no idea, since the risk is about 50X the butterfly, even tho this, too, will put some FRNs in the trading acct, to open.
suicide for $1000, please, alex.
Words. Big. Me learn one day.
DOW bearish megaphone weekly chart:
http://stockmarket618.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/2011-04-16_dow-wk_x.png