quote a link to the source showing the 54:1 leverage at DB. also, what is your opinion on DB's core tier one ratio compared to, say, Wells Fargo? furthermore, does the higher proportion of level 3 assets compared to the equitiy held at many US banks ...

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HSBC are good, very good in fact. They will come through this mess as one of the long-term winners, in a field of reduced competition, due to the true geographical diversity of their earnings. Jhig, I wouldn't debate with this Lloydblankfein guy, as ...

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Hi Mike w, I agree with your point raised. CFDs (also traded in the wrapper of spread bets in the UK - tax free gains!) and futures contracts offer equity traders plentiful leverage. Also, most stockbrokers will provide credit facilities against ...

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Too late, the secret is no more, Driver. It was only ever a matter of time before you were discovered! No analysis contained in my first post on this great thread, so apologies. I've decided to take a rare day off from trading. I am not ...

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i have no bias in shorting or going long sterling. but have made cash for today, so will finish up now and go out to eat some greek food and drink some spanish beer, overlooking the river thames... equities still strong which will provide a degree ...

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Hey Azim, Nothing on my Dow Jones newsfeed, hinting at any fundamental reason. Only can think of typical short squeeze, as the reason, with existing shorts being stopped out as prices takes out key moving averasges. I had my fourth consecutive ...

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I'm waiting for a 5/13/62 set up on my 1h, before I go long... Currently, the 5ema has crossed the 13ema, just waiting for the 62 ema to be overtaken, and my chart will be screaming long, baby long.... That is unless Wormboy and the short squad ...

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Nice trades Davids, well done. Are you locked in the green on the long Cable, with trailing stop? What's your target or will you let PA guide you? It's just cleared the 62ema on the 1h (1.3830). Interesting if the candle closes clear of this level. ...

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thanks. pretty informative. i did not consider the UBS effect in today's moves..

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yes, and they shouted the news of these foreign currency purchases from the rooftop, so the effect would be big and traders would hopefully learn not to fight the intentions of the SNB, through continuing to make large one-way bets in favour of the ...

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kind of. I heard they only stated their intention to do so. Therefore, just verbally intervening at this stage or so they claim. although it is likely there were some big purchases from their reserves in order to make their verbal warning carry far ...

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The SNB announced it will purchase foreign currency in a bid to weaken the CHF

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But how would you know their current positioning, exposures and biases in the market? Most of these rumours are totally unfounded and, even if true, do not tell the whole story behind a big trade.

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Such cycnicism in one so young I agree with much of your sentiment towards elected officials, but I try to keep conspiracy theories out of my head, unless I have some degree of evidence.

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It is said that anyone who received profits, or made withdrawals, from this scheme in the past six years will be subject to a clawback from the authorities. Therefore, if taxes were paid on those supposed "profits", then these receipts will have to ...

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good for your country's export sector?

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Use the below link to the ECB's website. It details their official daily foreign exchange fixes. You can download into excel very easily and format to how you want. Use this to measure daily % movements, for example. Also, you can use the "=CORREL" ...

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i see what you are saying, Driver, in that you are observing the strong historical inverse correlation between eurusd and usdchf. but from a mathematical perspective, using an extreme theoretical example, we could see e/j go up by 1%, u/j appreciate ...

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from a mathematical perspective, EURUSD can go down even if E/J and U/J both go up, so long as the percentage move in the latter is greater than the former. however, from a statistical perspective, I am not well informed of detailed historical data ...

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