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It's Not Over Yet For JPM
IG9 10Y spreads re-surged today and were very choppy into the close as they broke back above 155bps (at 155.5/157.5bps now) for the first time since Mid-December with a 31% rip in the last two weeks. This fits perfectly with our ongoing thesis of this being a tail-risk hedge (not a simple 'spread' as other ignorant commentators presume) whose risk management has exploded in their face. While the skew (the difference between the index and its portfolio fair-value) has collapsed and arbs will be happy and likely exiting - the same correlation shifts (that we discussed earlier) that drove the big bank to sell more and more protection into a spread compressing market are now back-firing as systemic risk re-surges and the correlation shift is forcing them to buy back more and more protection into a spread decompressing market. Oh the fun of negative convexity - especially when you ARE the market and there is no-one to unwind the actual tranches to.
While we among others expected the selling to slow as the skew collapsed, the secondary effect of the actual rise in systemic risk is now taking over and forces the bank to buy protection back into a rising spread market...
but the velocity of the change is incredible...
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Thus why the Fed can't/won't engage in QE. If they announce a new round of 2's and 10's buying, they screw themselves.
Or for those who have forgotten, JPM IS the LARGEST shareholder in the Federal Reserve as they founded it.
When was the lesst time the fed cared about "screwing themselves". It is, in the end, taxpayer hunded OPM
Yes, but by letting JPM play the victim role of their own stupidity, it provides a window for the Fed, aka JPM, to redefine policy and regulation by bottlenecking it in D.C. The Fed will screw everyone over when the time is right and the banksters have their new derivatives trade based on a full blown panic in the markets. After all, how do you think they saved GS when it was in the $40's.....
OK this is like the fifth article claiming that JPM wasn't stupid at all, it was just unforeseen events that fucked with the assumptions that underpinned their model.
FUCKING BULLSHIT
It's results that counts. JPM were idiots because the result was shit, I don't care how mathematically brilliant their models are in theory IF THEY DON'T WORK. That's the yardstick. History is filled with fucking financial "geniuses" whose models "should" have made them money if not stuff had happened.
hit the nail on the head
phd quants can program insanely complex models that have zero common sense
In theory, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge should still be standing.
Also in theory, bumblebees can't fly.
There is TBTF and then there is TBTBHA ... too big to be held accountable.
Yes, there will be a show trial, but rest assured that no bankers will be harmed in the production of that theater.
I can imagine it now. In the green room, Jamie and Corzine are chatting it up, drinking champagne. "So how is your house in the Hampton's." Good, just hired me a hot new maid. Schumer invited me for dinner but I already booked with Biden. Damn bastards want in on that facebook IPO. Anyway, see ya after the senate party.
Just nail plywood over the front door of every JPM branch location...already. Good grief...why does the Dimon still have his job?
Let's see........... US treasuries at record low yields, oil is above $90 a barrel and inflation is still present. No QE is coming until the Grim Reaper takes his toll on the markets. If he did, it would too obviously look like Zimbabwe.
How about Bank of Greece?
back down to lowest low of $1.4
are they going to wait until NBG gets delisted?
http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/gallery.html?nbg
Greece is yesterday's news.
From the data it is fairly obvious now that an old fashioned hex is on JPM and will not be lifted until Corzine is made accountable.
They better get the corporate exorcist on this pronto...that or throw him under the bus.
Bumblebees can fly! Oh, but the bees know. Glenn Beck said so. LOL. Anyway love ya post.
So I guess ZH is taking a softer stance on the issue of (lacking) accountability.
If this trade had benefited JPM, there would have been backslaps and bonuses all around, JPM would have hailed themselves as the smartest people in the room and the biggest swinging dicks.
When the trade fails, it's not their fault, it was Ben who fucked their model. Well that's just great.
You miss the point
Yes it was idiotic and jpm would prefer everyone think it was an idiotic "economic" hedge rather than idiotic proprietary trading which is now illegal for FDIC insured banks
But the ZH articles claim it was a hedge gone wrong rather than prop trading. So actually, you're the one missing the point.
Are you a troll or are you actually that fucking stupid?
Worlds largest prop desk just went bust
Why JPM's "Cheif Investment Office" Is The World's Largest Prop Trading Desk: Fact And Fiction
Fucking retard.
The articles on ZH we are discussing had AS THEIR MAIN POINT that the JPM fiasco was due to a tail-risk hedge gone wrong.
You fucking retard. Learn how to read or shut the fuck up.
"As we described first here and here - and has now been accepted by the mainstream media as fact (of course we are flattered by the mimicry) - the reason that the hedge got out of control was the massive amount of delta-hedging that Iksil had to do to manage the position as the Fed and ECB crushed the systemic risk out of the system and blew up the correlation assumptions in his models."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/how-jpms-hedge-blew-one-easy-chart
I know some of them are long, and use very big words. And it is difficult to read entire articles, reading the first line is much more fun then commenting and assuming you know.
From "Is JPM Staring At Another $3Billion Loss?"
This was very evident when one looks at the net notional being soaked up by the Whale and this 'hedge' position had clearly grown extremely large as it became a momentum trade not a hedge (at which time we suspect Iksil started to lose control). In early April, as news of this broke across the market, the credit and equity markets were beginning to quiver again at European contagion and US macro data and as a proxy for the volatility JPM must have been feeling we can see very significant (2-3 sigma) swings in the credit index they held.
Read the entire article, and the ones subsequent before posting your rediculous bullshit.
Its kind of like in a football game where one team has possession of the ball for 40 minutes but fails to score any points and the other team gets 4 touchdowns, the team that had the ball for 20 minutes still wins the game. There's no points awarded for being "close".
CLOSE does count with:
•horseshoes
•grenades
•atom bombs
Its all about results in the interzone Dr.
FWIW - dont think the OP is claiming JPM inst stupid. The series has had the opposite tone.
peAce
Their strategy will work as they will be rewarded for every large swing in the absolute value of the swing.
One way they steall it with inside trading that unwits the trading actual populace(less and less people each day)
Other way as bailout paid by everyone else, gun to head giant balls style(yea, enough people see it coming, but it will happen anyway)
That's it. Nothing in the model for anything outside one or the other
Fuck em, hope Iksil and Dimon eat shit all the fucking way. Hope this parabolic chart goes parabolic-er. Something along european parabolic lines.
Hope they get crushed all the way, sacks of shit.
There is perpetual QE going on right now. The QE announcement will be made to simply manage peoples perceptions, when the time is right. MOPE.
Let it roll, baby, roll....
Take that, bitches.....
LOL. Suck it down, taxpayers.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer market manipulator.
I'm sure there are some hapless pension funds, I mean sophisticated investors they can sell these loss-making positions to.
You would think that Obama's publicist bio which ran from 1991 until pulled in 2007 would be of mild interest to the mainstream media. Not a peep on cnn or nytimes about a bio that obama's publicist ran for 16 years touting his birth in kenya
I hope the Tylers post it up as a headline too..
something smells odd about this latest distraction... if this was really out there, how the hell did McCain's snoops miss it during the election? or Clintons during the primary? seems like another "look over here" gimmick.
Does it really matter which Wall Street controlled puppet is in the White House?
No, it doesnt. However this, Obama being completely discredited and proven to not even be an American would surely shake a larg percentage of the public out of their normalcy bias induced Zombie trance.
I mean for fucks sake, how much more treacherous can a system be then to put a non citizen in as a president?
Yawn.
For God's sake, give the birther crap a rest.
Only birthers think anybody is going to care about yet another fabricated piece of "proof" that he's our Kenyan in chief.
George Romney was born in Mexico. John McCain was born in Panama. Both men ran with hardly a squawk. Suddenly it's a breakdown of society, of America as we know it given this "proof"?
The "natural born" provision of the Constitution has NEVER been defined. NEVER. The purpose of it was clear, to prevent aristocrats from England from coming over and declaring themselves king here. but that is obviously not what Obama is doing. Has he furthered the Muslim agenda one bit? no. the Middle Eastern Agenda? Hardly (ask any Pakistani or Afghan or Iraqi if he's helped their agenda!).
Get over yourself.
Wake me when there is something interesting. How about this: I heard he wasn't even born. No, he was actually hatched out of a meteor that flew out of Osama bin Laden's butt! Imagine that, Obama discredited as a terrorist butt baby!
There is so much to hate about Obama. His birthplace hardly registers.
Its definitely not fabricated. There are no denials even from supporter blogs that it is fake. Go look it up yourself
it does matter. it is the LAW. and they lied about it. if you don't like the laws, you can work to change them. but you can't break them going in. that's called the social contract. and - if you are above the law - then you are advocating crawling back into the cave. all these people, obama, dimon, corzine, etc. they are above the law. they wrested power from the weak - hey - fuck you, what are you going to do about it? that is there attitude.
in the schoolyard that is called bullies and by the time you are adolescent - it's called punks and when you become an adult it's called thugs. and this country is being run by a bunch of bullies and punks, because none of them are adults yet. or ever will be.
and that's all there is to hate about obama - i mean the fact that he cares about nobody but himself, cares nothing about precedent or law or social responsibility - he plays off as if blacks are owed something (i still don't think he's black either, but he plays that card too) and he's the one that gets to collect the retribution.
played the card well.
For those of us who believe in Constitutional law vs the BS we have now - WHERE OBAMA was born, NOT conceived really does matter. So quit being a shithead and get with the program.
If Its ok to lie and laws are meaningless then fuck all and give me anarchy.
We can not have a society where laws are enforced willy nilly. If you think it's ok to disregard law then it should be ok for everyone to disregard it.
Theatre often has props and stage direction.
I saw Dennis Kucinich addressing the Senate today about H.Res 568 in regards to Iran, anybody have any insight into this? We have JPM, news that Barry was born in Kenya, Schumer saying US citizens can never renounce their citizenship in the last few days. From where I sit they're going to chose the full retard button now aren't they or am I missing something?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FycJHGtrvH4
"full-retard" was 2009.
This is inbred siamese twins attempting to mate.
Links? Please?
The market maker's nightmare...what can't happen will happen !
Started shorting it at 36.... YEAH BABY!!!!
To stay true to JPM style, don't forget to screw up the hedge!
Don't get greedy. Lock in profit under 30 quick. Don't get greedy. These fucks will you you blind. In fact they depend on human nature to do it.
So now the question is:
When does "Too big to Fail" become "Too big to Bail" out?
"My company is so well managed and capitalized that we can lose 25% of our annual profits on just one trade-position anytime we want, and no, I will not take the Kool-Aide breathalizer test".
the music has stopped and JPM still hasnt found a chair to sit in !
Yes, yes, a tail-risk hedge, my thoughts exactly! ;-)
Cough bullshit cough
Caught in the act of illegal proprietary trading
Hedge, fig leaf, same thing.
Its JPM so why even care. Unless its for the pure joy in watching it happen. If they run out of money they wont be able to cover the silver shorts and.....done, toast, bankrupt, kaput are words that come to mind.
If 1/10th of 1% of the population would each fork over $30 for an oz of silver, we could be rid of this beast.
That would be the .1%.
They probably already have their silver locked up.
Yes, well, those short positions are just held on behalf of customers, so they don't have any exposure or interest in that market. Lucky for them, or things could get interesting fairly quickly.
Do unto others Jaime. Kharma is about to rip you a new asshole.
What does Jamie care...he has the full support of the Fed Reserve AND the government behind his bets. Win and he gets accolades, lose he gets bailed out.
Where is my pitchfork?
Just a guess: JPM Custodian Facility?
Got a paper one for you if you want some leverage...
"Where is my pitchfork?"
What most people call a "pitchfork" is really a 5-tines manure fork. More appropriate, no?
JPM is nothing more than a zombie company.
I have no idea what any of this shit means. Tail risk sounds like a worry over the STD status of a hooker.
http://www.explosm.net/comics/331/
you clearly know more than jp morgan
"Dimon is a hood. Everything else is Bullshit".
-JP Morgan
Back to Obummer.. I mean Obama, I may offend some people here but I have to say it. I really think a majority of the liberal voters to to fucking stupid their going to vote for him np matter what!
What does rick santorum imply about conservative voters?
Liberals are what Eric Hoffer referred to as "True Believers" and Vladimir I. Lenin referred to as "Useful Idiots". Yes, they will vote for the NSAAP...National Socialist Amerikanski Workers Partie...Demo-rats.
"I really think a majority of the liberal voters to to fucking stupid their going to vote for him np matter what!"
So, based on this barely literate statement, you are a liberal?
Too, they're, no.
You offend me. Grow up and understand how easy it is to rig elections.
Choke on a bag of dicks, Mr. Dimon...
I dont think anyone should take the bait that the trade is unwound just because iksil has left the building
Amazing how 'too big too fail' became part of our vocabulary. The question is how did they get "too big to fail" in the first place. Fail and Fail some more for all i care. All day long on the MSM like parrots.. too big to fail.. too big to fail..
In the real world we are held accountable for our failings and mistakes..
Too fail to bail.
see what I mean...lol
Tyler they are not getting out of that trade. It's going parabolic!
Don't matter. If it is shit. FED'll buy it. Bad shit. No problem they buy that too.
Looking at the chart..Man credit was tighter than a frogs azz back in Oct 11!.. It's going to get bumpy folks.
long term credit; $ 5 B vs $ 125 B in positions and 1.2 Trillion derivatives wrong way
collapsed the Union Bank of Switzerland;
whats the over and under on this one? $ 20 Billion with
capital of 120 Billion...
any body wanna take a ride as they try to undwind an illiquid
$ 100 Billion swap position with no counterparties.????
LOL
We can all wish that it will drag down this monstrous entity. In the end, though, they're pulling all of the strings.
Buy physical silver, though. It might not crash JPM (or it might), but it can't hurt.
Time will sweep us sinners by...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACZpzj0jll4
We talk about JPM and the FED as as an entity, and in many ways each organization will exhibit propeties of an alive thing which will fight for suvival of itself, However we mustn't loose site of the fact that it is just made up of people.
There is some small finite number of individuals making up the top positiions of the major Corporations and Gov. Look at the boards of numerous companies wiith the same names. Like the whole thing about ex Goldman employees.
The Name (JPM, GS FED, GM, ECB, ENRON, COUNTRYWIDE, XYZ, ETC) is just the glove, the people on the boards, (like rockefeller,, on down) is the flesh in the glove.
So when a company goes bust (ENRON, Courntrywide, etc) the majority just go to another board position on one of the other 'Division' of the firm or are taken out of the game. Some times with an accidental suicide or to retire out of the game to watch birds, (aka Paulson) or some corner office somewhere where his schedual is always open and has hot and cold running blonde secretaries.
So , just sayn remember there are two dimensions when we are talking about the companies and the people.
"especially when you ARE the market and there is no-one to unwind the actual tranches to."
No-one? I'd bet the Federal reserve would open a special window for them (think TALF) in a heartbeat. After all, just like TARP, there is definite upside for the American taxpayer. I'm sure they can spin it as a profit center down the road. Oh, and GM repaid their loan, early, and with interest too. I wonder why MDB hasn't seized on this idea? It would make great satire.
It's that final grain of sand that begins the cascade.
Straw that breaks the camel's back.
Yea, that sorta thing.
Does this mean Goldman is going to have a stellar quarter?