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JPMorgan Pretends To Shut Down All Prop Trading Desks, In Latest Smoke Screen Act Of Volcker Rule "Compliance"
So JPMorgan fires 20 people in its commodity prop book. What about Sempra Energy, which Dimon purchased recently? Is that getting spun off too? Or are all the 20 whopping newly unemployed advised to seek employment at Sempra? One wonders why JP Morgan named a new global head of commodity strategy today. But yes, let's wave the white flag in the face of the dumb public and pretend we are complying with Volcker. But first, let's have the corpulent Frank in charge of the finreg abortion lisp something on TV about what a great success his capture by Wall Street is proving to be.
From Bloomberg:
JPMorgan Chase & Co., the second- largest U.S. lender by assets, told traders who bet on commodities for the firm’s account that their unit will be closed as the company begins to shut down all its proprietary trading, according to a person briefed on the matter.
The bank eventually will end all proprietary trading to comply with new curbs on investment banks, said the person, who asked not to be identified because JPMorgan’s decision isn’t public. The New York-based bank will shut proprietary trading in fixed-income and equities later, the person said.
Closing the prop trading desk for commodities affects fewer than 20 traders, including one in the U.S. and the rest in the U.K., the person said. The unit is based in London, where traders on Aug. 27 were given notice, as required by U.K. law, that their jobs may be in jeopardy, according to the person.
Congress passed curbs on financial firms this year designed to prevent a recurrence of the 2008 credit crisis, which almost caused the banking system to collapse. Proprietary trading involves transactions made on behalf of the bank rather than its customers. The curbs on proprietary trading are known as the Volcker rule, named after former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who campaigned for limits on risk-taking by lenders.
Traders will be given a chance to apply for jobs elsewhere in the company, according to the person. JPMorgan spokeswoman Kimberly Weinrick declined to comment.
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The only things that happen naturally in an organization are friction, confusion and malperformance.
Everything else is leadership
Leadership...
As in did the final form Volcker Rule retain the exemption of Banks to trade Gold and Silver for their own accounts under the pretext that such constitutes mainline business?
Betcha, betcha, betcha.....
In days of yore, t'was rumored Kings to be stingy, not relinquishing the Kingdom's Purse Strings, Departments of Treasure or Mints (and not as in after dinner, little grasshopper).
Oh no! How will I go on?
uhm would that include their notorious PM intervention team?
shit if they did that gold would be 2000 in a week :)
Don't get too excited, they are being transfered over to the FED
Going to have to ask the doj on that one, ive been wondering how that investigation is going..
DON'T SAY THESE THINGS! You're scaring the kids!
It appears they were active today. Fat chance they go away. Smoke and mirrors.
Okay...the group can now panic....
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-03/blythe-masters-says-don-t-panic...
"We’ve got too many banks chasing too little volume..." She said.
Also look at the ES vol vs Index option volume... all humans are gone
hmm... looks like pretty old news. 3/8/2010
THAT
IS
SOME
SCARY
SHIT!
Whenever somebody tells me : don't worry, I WORRY!
Fixed it for you.
Blythe, such a lying ho, must have been difficult for JD to cut this money losing department.
MwnN,
It's shit like this, that makes me puke........
“Don’t panic,” she said in summing up the 35-minute call, a recording of which was obtained by Bloomberg News. “No one’s going to get screwed. We’re not going to do crazy things on compensation at the end of the year.”
Meanwhile, back at the Gruel bowls..........
I, as a casual poster on ZH and contributing nothing of substance to the process, demand more details! ;)
and I demand more nudity on this site!
Robotrader where are you!
SD,
He Exfoliated............
Gold is up today...probably won't see him come around until the next $2 cliff dive...
Will this - should this - have any impact on their massive short positions in the metals precious metals markets?
i imagine it would be terrible for gold and silver, but would provide a great buying opp afterwards
Well it certainly helped precious metals today.
Or the move in metals today helped with the decision to cease operations...
No
They're probably trading those positions on behalf of some unknown client account......
Guess I need to start my phd now that the free money is gone or I apply at the FED... BPS is still hiring...
http://www.newyorkfed.org/careers/current_openings.html
Sr. Ethics Specialist, fuck yeah! Kick up the feet....
Trader position open as well
NYFRB Trader job description:
-normal hours are 8-4
-come in and set Atari to "BUY EVERYTHING"
-put your feet up and play Tetris for the rest of the day
-at 4p, turn off Atari
What, no porn? Eff that, I'm going to the SEC then.
LOL
If you want, I can mail you a PHD template where you can fill in whatever you want and print it.
For the gold seal, you can try to find something in the bonbon box that looks like a seal.
Tyler -
if true what does this portend for the ownly (freudian slip) 2 forms of real money?
This could be really funny if true. Would love to see the action of them closing out the commodity positions. Need more info.
Funny thing is that CITI just started a commodity propping desk. Maybe they are playing tag team for the smoke and mirror act?
someone closed lots of positions during the last dip, OI plunged quite hard. Maybe related if true.
R.I.P.
Fuck the P.
What if the P = Pomona?
What's going to happen to all the Umpa Lumpas that operate these pump machines? I guess they have to beg Willy Wonka to hire them back
They're finding positions with their cousins, the Grunka-Lunkas, making Slurm.
They are probably just relocating it to Singapore, Isnt that where there new Gold Bullion outlet is supposed to be started in September?
What kind of world are we living in where an honest American company, like JPM/Chase's commodity trading unit, can't go on making an honest living in America? Courtesy of us giving them interest-free, risk-free loans of course. Yet, it is still a sad day.
I will buy more puts, in their honor.
They don't want in these markets. They just want a % of whatever you plan on doing in these markets.
JPMORGUEN.....the legend lives on.
EST 11:55 silver prices took a noce slide shortly after lunch (in New Yorks finest cafes )
Some great comedy on BBTV with Jeremy Siegel giving his usual stand up routine.
JPM appears, even through the crisis, to be good at anticipating future political fallout. Perhaps this is an indication that prop traders are about to get politically gang raped by the bully pulpit. I'm not defending them, per se, but they have been politically savvy, and have remained just a few steps ahead of the rest of the pack for the past few years on that front. This is not a commentary on what a sad state of affairs we're in when politics determines the course a gigantic corporation will take, but simply an observation.
I doubt JPM is anticipating anything. I am willing to bet that Obama's team lobbed a friendly call to President Dimon. You know, a little heads up...
http://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/org_nydirectors.html
lol
haha, yeah, good point.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSGE6490MF20100510
Does this include market making? If so, how much of a loss of liquidity are we about to experience?
What is wrong with prop traders? Aren't most of you trading from your own desks?
If this market was a contender for free style dance moves, it would win hands down.
I'm trying to get jiggy with it but man, that was one stupid roller coaster ride today and the day is not done. It's getting busier, more hectic and more irratic. Summer is definitely gone.
September could go either way. This zig zag motion won't last much longer imo.
This market is acting schizo and needs to get medicated or committed or both.
Canada's Housing Bubble May Soon Burst
http://israelfinancialexpert.blogspot.com/2010/08/cbs-news-canadas-housing-bubble-may.html
It burst in Feb.
They'll all end up at Moody's.
SEC declines to pursue Moody's for fraud over CDO ratings.
Or, the SEC
scum
JPMorgan: Dark pool set up in asia. Thanks america. Have fun eating cat food.
So you shut down the N.Y. desk and then enter into a JV offshore with trained chimps pressing the algo-buttons and pooof! Life goes on...
the offshore chimp operation has probably been operating for years
and has definitely been the place where all manipulations are done
JPM and the rest of them know exactly what is coming to markets. They know first hand the manipulation cannot withstand the deluge of terrible data such as rising unemployment and the falling off of benefits for new 99'ers.
They also know the only way for them to make money will be on the short side since the recovery never appeared and in order to profit without sending up flags and accusations of taxpayer funded trading they must reduce the appearance of using taxpayer money to profit at the expense of the average citizen. Deflation is here and the money destruction coming in 401ks is going to cause an escalation in populist anger.
These guys got canned because they lost BILLIONs. You do not want to be long JPM when the next earnings report comes out.
Got any source for your information there?
Oil down, silver up.
Read this from earlier and you will see the tip of the iceberg.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-03/blythe-masters-says-don-t-panic-over-jpmorgan-commodities-loss-job-cuts.html
JPM's failed coal trade was only what they have admitted to. And they are pretending like they unwound it. Uhhh. No.
Muchos gracias amigo
Muchos gracias amigo
They manufacture their earnings report, though. They can just take a few billion from their loss reserves to show a profit, if need be.
The Next Financial Crisis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ECi6WJpbzE&feature=sub
This will take about $2 billion per quarter or 10% out of run rate revenue, but also a lot of risk. Prop trading and PE has swung from $10 billion in loss to equal profit over past couple of years. Chris
Bove said diminimus does he just take the other side of everyone to have an opinion?
The prop desk would have been spun off if it had been a money maker and had to be seperated. No. They made no money. They lost money.
That was some intervention there about 5 mins ago. This must be costing a fortune to defend 10,000. This is a very sick and unhealthy market.
Nice friggin volume spike. wtf?
And Obambi and the Dem's just don't understand why there is no confidence in the economy and retail investors continue to pull money out of the market. Shear arrogance.
Easy money at the end of the day. Bet on it closing over 10k.
Hey, why are the moving all that stuff into the building next door?
Tyler,
I'll have you know that Mr. Dimon has Greek roots and had Jeff Immelt and Seth Klarman as classmates at Harvard Business School. Please stop posting smear on him or JP Morgan. All is good, now stay quiet.
Get back on that treadmill suckers and get where you need to go.
Don't make me use a 80's music mantage.
Get going!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peLD2vlxRM0&feature=related
Oh no's I'm in your economy under your glass ceiling being a depressed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg1oszADX04
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On Tuesday August 31, 2010, 10:14 amWASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. banking industry posted its highest quarterly earnings in nearly three years, even as the number of troubled institutions grew by more than 50 in the second quarter.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says banks overall made $21.6 billion in net income in the April-to-June quarter. That was the highest quarterly level since 2007. Overall, banks lost $4.4 billion in the second quarter of 2009.
How to put spin on shutting down a crappy business--we were required to do it to comply with law.
Apparently, Dimon never heard the old saying that a rose would still be a rose, by any other name. That saying also applies to bile and dog shit, just so that I'm being contextually appropriate here.
For those who still haven't figured it out, here's a clue: UCITS IV.
(I'll have a new post ready in an hour or two...)
And here it is.....
Assets managed by European UCITS III funds have increased to $52.3 billion over the last two years. These special purpose vehicles are about to kill the traditional hedge fund industry, and are emerging as the new generation of sophisticated investment strategies.
“Using cautious estimates, projections for 2012 indicate that over €8,000 billion will be invested in UCITS products, an increase of 60% – from €5,000 billion at end 2007.”
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