This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.
Credit Suisse Reveals The Next "Pain Trade"
First there was "long social-media", then "short bonds", and now - as Credit Suisse notes - the next "pain trade" appears to be building in USDJPY (which is very worrisome for broad risk assets in general).
Credit Suisse - The next "pain trade" ?
As we have highlighted on several occasions, one of the reasons we have been looking for lower US yields (besides a yield top for 5yr5yr US and rising US Duration Risk Appetite) has been positioning and the "pain trade", and we believe we may well have the same conditions in USDJPY.
Here, the market continues to weigh heavily on a cluster of pivotal supports at 101.23/100.75 – the repeated series of lows for the year from February, March and April, the rising 200-day average and the 38.2% retracement of the June-13/January-14 uptrend. A break below here, which we think increasingly likely, would see a top, warning of a potentially aggressive move lower.
Below 100.75 (and probably now 101.20) would see a top confirmed to target 99.63 initially, ahead of the 61.8% retracement of the rally from last June at 98.25. While we would look for this latter level to hold at first, a break in due course can target 96.57, and eventually 94.65 – the 38.2% retracement of the entire rally from September 2012.
»
- 11102 reads
- Printer-friendly version
- Send to friend
- advertisements -
USD/JPY has been in a DOWN channel since January...
New Motto: "All Pain-No Gain!"
They import 5 million barrels per day priced at $108 Brent.
That's $540 million leaving the country. If the yen strengthens then that money flowing out is fewer yen drained from GDP.
As for them desiring a weak yen, the Fed has no reason to let Toyota destroy Ford.
i cant wait for the first TBTF hedge fund....i mean bank....to recommend shorting their own stock.
I'd say a 30% discount for bank capital by D over the weekend qualifies.
USD/JPY going toward 80....reminds of somehting a wise old sage once said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtGxusvUT3k&noredirect=1
Yen to 80? I really doubt that.
Japan is fucked. Aging population, increasing energy costs, general lack of competiveness, are just a few of their many problems. And, by a long shot, we haven't heard the last from the Fukushima disaster.
The Yen was over 300 when I was last there :) I'm thinking it'll get there again.
this is also known as the "hahaha f u kyle bass" trade
Yeah, no shirt.
While the recovery still has yet to materialize the "pain trade" has been anything but going on 5 years now.
Sounds like good tactical advice...still getting stopped out of a short position is the Sum of All Fears?...but as with everything else dealing with the future "it is uncertain."
Hey, look. Gold is pretty low right now.
Goldman buying yet?
Gold is coiling.... which way will the spring pop?
Soooo... buy USDJPY. Gotcha.
I wonder why Credit Suisse would suddenly decide to tell the truth about the crummy economic situation the US is facing? Maybe the multi-billion dollar extortion fee the Swiss bank will be paying the Feds to continue doing business in the USA, huh?
I don't get it - why would the JPY strengthen against the USD? Abenomics are a failure, but is this saying that the fed's QE is an even bigger failure?
As Japanese investors leave the stock market, demand for local cash (Yen) soars. They may want to consider harder assets, however, as further protection.
When you close a long USD/JPY trade...you are effectively buying Yen. That is, no more Abe stimulus...will cause a lot of the Yen shorts to take profits. But, hey what the fuck do I know.
WHy in heck would I want to bet that Abe stops printing?
If he does, I'm going to want my money local.
Ha Ha: The Next Pain Trade!
"U.S. Files Criminal Case Against Credit Suisse in Federal Court."
In 2000 Credit Suisse bought one of the gold fix seats and then less than 2 years later they bailed out and sold the seat again to SocGen. What was all that about? That was one of the shortest seat participations ever. In fact, the shortest.
Why would one of the big Swiss banks get in and then leave, unless it was an intel reconnaissance exercise from start to finish, which is my pet theory.
But why not stay in deep undercover?
Or else the French wanted in and the Banque de France did a side deal with the Swiss National Bank on behalf of SocGen and Credit Suisse respectively, to trade the seat. This would make sense if SocGen had got in to central banking gold lending in a significant way and needed to keep the value of their exposure in check.
2000 was a hell of a long time ago. So why was the gold hanky-panky going on then?