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How Bond Market Liquidity Evaporated Following The Ukraine News
It is no secret that bond market liquidity is horrendous: this is a topic we have been discussing since early 2013, and which gained major prominence most recently when Denmark’s biggest pension fund, ATP, said "the burden of regulatory restrictions designed to rein in risky trades has now led it to abandon its reliance on the longest-dated bonds." As Bloomberg reported, "the fund, based north of Copenhagen, said earlier this week it was shortening interest rate guarantees to savers amid a lack of liquid assets with maturities of 30 years and longer." As a result policy holders in the pension fund will now have the rates paid on their savings guaranteed for 15 years at a time, versus lifelong guarantees.
ATP warned that the change will help protect pensioners’ purchasing power.
And, as the TBAC explained one year ago, pensioners (first in Denmark, soon everywhere else) have the Fed and other monetizing central banks to thank for losing their "purchasing power" as a result of the central banks' sequestration of high quality collateral, i.e. bonds with duration to record levels, and the resulting collapse in bond market liquidity.
Well, things just got worse today, when as the following chart courtesy of Nanex showed, liquidity in the ZB future took a step function lower on the Russian news. Expect even further contraction in liquidity in the coming weeks and months, which in turn will mean that soon the world's "deepest" market may have all the liquidity of CYNK... and all the volatility as well.
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must be why the yield on the 10y is down nine flipping bps
by liquidity evaporating ironically they meant there were no bawnds to be found. it was a sellers strike, not a buyers strike.
does not fit the narrative around here too well eh?
"deep State" "deep market" I get it...
what about "deep throat"?
thats hoqw the crash will happen imho
there will be a huge news event
the guys who manage the algos will switch them to short mode in attempt to scalp
volume will dry up for a short time
then someone will put in a large sell order in this no volume environment
BOOM down goes the market
Dear Mr Henry,
Remember when we told you there would be a day when we do NOT want you to sell VIX Futures because we're going to go long, since no one expects that anymore. Today is that day.
Sincerely
Jamie Diamond
p.s. Our buddies at Goldman are in on the joke too
http://www.salon.com/2014/05/21/jamie_dimons_sinister_pr_ploy_what%E2%80...
you're probably right. shit's fucked up and bass ackwards these days. the maggot speculators went full retard. never go full retard.
I hope some of the algo's were quote-stuffing when the $hit hit the fan, and got caught in real closed transactions.
Well, we can always dream -- right?
Why? So my tax dollars can bail them out?
I just talked to a salesman whose trader wouldn't bid some short, high-quality bonds. Just wouldn't do it on a Friday pm with the currrent global backdrop.
fits with the picture shown above.
Verrry interesting. I'm down $2,000 overnight on ZB; I don't care what's wrong with it; if it doesn't get fixed on Monday, I'm outa here.
But PBS told me HFT provide liquidity?
NA
Odd article, CNBC-like.
Futures are nothing more than a tool to manipulate products in a certain direction with low volumes compared to cash markets. Treasury futures were a one-way manipulation train last year for dealers and hedgies who tore yields apart in May and June - the biggest move in yields in the last 25 years.
I guarantee you that absent the corrupted futures market, treasury yields would already be much lower. It is no coincidence that our yields and those in the UK are much, much higher than everywhere else in the developed world. Illusions of GDP growth aside, it is all manipulation - which has a finite life.
The cash market for treasuries is enormous, $300-$500 billion a day. Futures is chicken sh*t.
Of course futures are a tool for manipulation: after all that's how the primary dealers put the Fed's excess reserves to use - by using them as collateral for marginable positions such as ZB because they can't use them directly to purchase assets. That said, futures are where the marginal trading happens, as few dealers have the actual funds to purchase underlying. As such, liquidity collapse in futures will be the first real warning sign that the Fed is finally losing control (see the JGB market in April/May 2013).
How could NSA lose control of digits on computers?
you need to see someone professionally.
:-)
Fonz
Look at what the system is, just digits on computers
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/04/28/exclusive_meet_the_secr...
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/05/02/art-financial-warfare-how-west-pushin...
This is not even news any longer. It's widely available information
Tyler, I dont know if you care, but my Tips are no longer getting through. adelphia.net is blocked (adrephia is roadrunner)
Insana just has a piece at CNBC noting crashing commodity prices, threat to growth, warning, warning.
He then goes on to say the US is a self sustaining economy and thus immune. Complete bollocks.
I am l.stouch@roadrunner.com if you wanna unblock.
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JGB market, 2013 losing control? What? There was nothing there, yields are lower than where they were before May 2013...
The Fed wants higher yields, higher interest rate spreads, as long as risk assets can survive. There is no growth, yields go down - end of story.
Dear zerohedge
Let me repeat this again
There is no market. Nobody significant is buying or selling.
NY fed just overrides the system at the end of the day with NSA technical assistance
I agree. This is not a normal market.
When the market goes up 50, 75, 80 points in the morning and then just SITS THERE all day, something is wrong.
However, this also means they can move it whenever they want. Never short a dull market, and this one isnt just dull, its dead.
Dont forget:
Through a trustee, the central bank purchased a combined ¥92.4 billion ($904.2 million) in ETFs over the first six business days of August. That's the BOJ's longest and largest consecutive buying streak since it started purchasing ETFs in December 2010.
Many traders suspect that it may not be a coincidence that the central bank is scooping up ETFs at a time when both the Nikkei and the Topix are spending considerable amounts of time in negative territory. Speculation is rife that the BOJ is following an unwritten rule, called "the 1% rule" by traders, where it buys ETFs after the Topix index falls around 1% in the morning session
It's not even news any longer. They just accept it blatantly.
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/05/02/art-financial-warfare-how-west-pushin...
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/04/28/exclusive_meet_the_secr...
When the market collapses they are only following the WTC7 model. Carry on...
Yield curve spread traders pulling ZB offers because the UST market went offerless.
Poof! And just like that, it (he) was gone.
Expect more of the same in the future(s).
I just sold a bunch to UST's when the 10 yr reached a 2.30 handle. I will almost certainly be buying them back, as I've always done in 2014, at a higher yield.
This is NOT the black-swan you are looking for.
BtFD, young Skywalker.
palladium is pretty badass
Yeah and a hefty premium right now if you want delivery of physical. Actually, it has been that way for a few months now.
Hope and Change
I hope this weekend that useless filthy fucking cunt and ox of a woman yellen has a stroke that paralizes her fucking filthy lying pie hole.
while the grim reaper is making his rounds, hopefully he'll catch the slimy cunt of cunts and the cloven hooved bitch pelosi
lastly, nuland the useless, grimy, racist filthy burqua bitch is found with stage 4 cancer of the uterus and is given 3 months to live
hope and change - its what hussien and i live for
You might want to consider cutting back on whatever it is you're either smoking, injecting or drinking.