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The road to hell is paved with positive carry.

City of London, London
Joined November 2011
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Wrong way round this week? Just remember, your bonds may have gone down but at least your carry went up.
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HISTORIC BANKING LOSSES 1995 - Barings $1.3bn on Nikkei options 1996 - Sumitomo $3.5bn on copper 2000 - Bawag $1.5bn on FX 2002 - AIB $700mm on FX 2008 - SocGen $8bn on Equity Index 2011 - UBS $2bn on Equities 2012 - JP $12bn on CDS 2019 - Citi £4.50 on a cheese sandwich
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Hoisted from two years ago.
Buyer of 100y Argentina protection.
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Gilts FTW. Total return on 30-year UK government bonds beats stocks SINCE BIG BANG liberalized the stock market in 1986. So much for shareholders. (Note: this is the rolling 30 year maturity, so selling old and buying new at each new issue, not just holding one bond throughout)
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Replying to @HerestheFuture
You know duration is getting too long when you have to specify which century your bonds mature in.
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Today in "the importance of clear grammar and sentence structure"
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Reminder: Pets.com share price chart, IPO to bankruptcy, in %
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Germany taking our reporting into Wirecard well, I see ft.com/content/d51a012e-1d6f…
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Quick look at how pricings have been shaping up for U.S. #highyield new issues
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“I’ve had better days” - Translation: This has been the worst 24 hours of my life
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Is the pound literally going to end unchanged today? That would be amazing.
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Currently nobody in British shops knows who is and who is in fact not in the queue
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Shout out to whoever made the Spotify playlist ‘Now That’s What I Call Brexit’. #BrexitChaos
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Buy-side traders are button pushers with a delusional sense of their importance, says this sell-side trader. news.efinancialcareers.com/u…
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What a thread.
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How a London trading firm defrauded the Danes of $2bn nytimes.com/2018/10/05/busin…
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1/ On Sunday September 14, 2008, the largest players in the credit derivatives market convened a special trading session in a last-minute effort to offset risk from the seemingly-certain bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. I was there, and it was the most memorable day of my career.
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It’s amazing to witness the entire world root for the same football team. #ThaiCaveRescue
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