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Bonds, from Victor Niederhoffer

February 16, 2015 |

In their quiet way (as grandpa Martin would say), bonds have Lobagolad up and down by 6 point since year end 2014.

Gary Phillips writes: 

If one thing is to be gleaned from from last week, it was there were no real signs of systemic risk or true market stress; only the perception thereof. The dissemination of public information forced the movement of common knowledge. The media's voice became the context of the market and the market's negative sentiment made for the healthiest of market environments. The time to get really worried is when the market is priced to perfection and everyone is overly bullish. Therefore, true trading ability is not determined by how well someone can interpret an illusory chart; but by the ability to identify the message's ambiguity, and by the conviction to become a non-conforming player. This is what separates the successful trader from the herd. 

Bill Rafter writes: 

We've had a significant overweight in the bullish sentiment for quite a while now. The market has rallied against that along with the classic wall-of-worry. True trading ability is whichever tool you use that can generate superior relative returns, including charts with various inputs.


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  1. Doug Martin on February 16, 2015 2:25 pm

    Speaking of Lobagola, I’m thinking the Swiss Frank will want to head back up to 1.22 in reference to the Swiss Frank futures. I’m thinking it might take a couple more weeks of doing nothing before people start getting the itch to take it back up again. Very very similarly to the 30 year when the market re-attacked the 148 level and beyond not too long ago. I would play this again through options.

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