The trouble with market forecasting is not that it is done by unintelligent & unskillful people. Quite to the contrary, it is done by so many experts that their efforts constantly neutralize each other and end up almost exactly zero.
- Benjamin Graham
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#MMT solves this; Fed. Reserve prints dollars, buys US Treasuries, treasury uses proceeds to finance its debt obligation. Why? Becuase US is currency issuer. No need for the regulators to depend on the regulated; which leads to moral hazards.
Janet Yellen has reached out to Jamie Dimon, Jane Fraser & CEOs of other major Wall Street firms, asking for help to avert a potential crisis if the U.S. government is no longer able to borrow money to pay its bills.
Scoop via @joelight@hannahlevitt
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Ok, quick thread on futures "leverage" in response to some replies out there in regards to 'stacking paper' and Fed presidents slinging "$1mm futures trades".
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"This was market behavior we had never seen before. They and their models were surprised."
"Are we building models based on things we’ve seen before or are we building them for surprises, for constant change?"
People are saying I am not posting enough finance content. FINE.
Once you have decent alphas a lot of the skill in running a systematic strategy is reducing turnover. Alpha is unknown but trading costs are certain. Keep trading to the minimum needed to monetise your alpha.
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It is complete moral for governments to sell scratch off lottery tickets to this guy.
But if he makes money in the markets, at the expense of a billionaire hedge fund (Melvin), this is dangerous.