Betting Odds on the Market – Option Trading
Did you know that you can easily find out the odds of a stock moving in a certain direction using option prices? Please, no option traders jumping down my throat on this one. Google has a 6% chance of...
View ArticleCapital Requirements – Bond Trading
Anyone an active bond trader here? I work in the primary markets and create the paper floating around out there that everyone has so much fun trading , but I don't have a feel...
View ArticleWhere to Find Yield for Grandma
Yields suck now. If you're young, then you offset that with cheap access to capital. That has always been my perspective. There's a double edged sword. I work in the...
View ArticleCapital Structure - Debt Above Equity?
Undergrads, hopefully you can appreciate this topic. Let's start with a fundamental understanding of corporate capital structures and work towards my question. Consider a...
View ArticleCan Institutional Investors Invest Short Sale Proceeds?
If a retail investor shorts a stock they get the proceeds in their account. They then: Cannot invest the proceeds. Don't make interest. Pay interest. Pay Dividends. How...
View ArticleTrading Logistics - Can you trade bond/equity spreads
Can you trade bond and equity spreads (aka long/short debt of a company and short/long the same company's equity) out of a personal account?
View Article2012 Investment Bank Rankings by Fees
Bloomberg had a great high level article on investment banking league tables that really puts the market in perspective. The top 5 BB 's raked in $18Bn in M&A, Equity and Debt Fee's. These fee...
View ArticleTraders Help - How to Long Bond using Short Stock Proceeds
I want to go short the equity and invest the proceeds in the corporate bond of the same company. I want to hold the bond to maturity, collect my coupons and then use my...
View ArticleLuxury Assets - WSO Boat Awards
We all put ourselves through hell for status, love of the job, and of course, money! I chase the money for the assets. I was drooling over the thought of being at the Shark...
View ArticleWhere the Traders At - Market Linked Step Up Notes
Big banks and brokers offer a suite of investments to their most valued customers. There seems to be something fundamentally not free markets about having access to deeply...
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