Dislikednice 25 pips in the bag and a trailing stop.....may even get 30 pips :-)Ignored
patience is a virtue
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Dislikednice 25 pips in the bag and a trailing stop.....may even get 30 pips :-)Ignored
DislikedHere is the latest ECB ad-hoc communique related to the SMP (Securities Market Program).
Last week the total net outstanding amount was 194.5 Billion and it has now increased to 203.5 billion euros.
This is what I call closet QE/InterventionIgnored
DislikedSorry, I forgot about some of the language barriers on this international forum here.
It's internet short hand for "If I recall correctly"
Add: PT beat me too it.Ignored
Dislikedif I understand it correctly, ECB bought 203.5 billions EUR? Or it was buying "something" worth of 203.5 billions, like bonds, for instance? It is interesting because it may help gauge the impact of these intervention. For instance, a 200+ billions (of what? EUR? bonds?) ECB intervention amounts for 80-100 pips up for EUR/USD.
I know it's very simplistic, but at least it's something that may be calculated somehow.Ignored
DislikedBuma. Let me use this analogy.
Trading bonds in the secondary market is like trading currencies in the spot market.
Right now the Euro is cheap at 1.3395. So let's say you buy it coz "hey that's dirt cheap". Now the Euro dips to 1.28. So it wasn't so cheap at 1.3395, was it?
In the secondary bond market, the yield is not actually the interest paid by the borrower. It is actually the effective yield because it was sold at a discount.
Example... A bond with face value of €1 Billion was auctioned off at say 2%
The holder wants to sell it...Ignored
DislikedYes the money was used to purchase sovereign bonds. That means that there is now an extra 200 billion euro in circulation. (effectively QE)
The ECB tries to sterilize those bond purchases by reabsorbing the liquidity. They do this by selling term deposits to financial institutions through a tender and they sell them to the bidders who accept the lowest return... kind of like a bond auction would.
The problem here is that their net balance keeps growing because nobody wants to buy these term deposit certificates.Ignored
Dislikedi will be watchful of potential bounce from the trendline(RED ones).
http://www.forexfactory.com/attachme...2&d=1322563398Ignored
DislikedThanks, that's very helpful.
So, the ECB is trying to pass along the "hot potato" and nobody really wants it, which makes ECB accumulate a lot of unsellable assets. At some point, those assets, which may no longer be converted into financial instruments, must be killed somehow. ECB kills them, but that will leave a lot of cash without any corresponding value on the market, because the assets bought does not exist anymore. And that will lead to inflationary pressure. Is that right?Ignored
DislikedThanks, that's very helpful.
So, the ECB is trying to pass along the "hot potato" and nobody really wants it, which makes ECB accumulate a lot of unsellable assets. At some point, those assets, which may no longer be converted into financial instruments, must be killed somehow. ECB kills them, but that will leave a lot of cash without any corresponding value on the market, because the assets bought does not exist anymore. And that will lead to inflationary pressure. Is that right?Ignored