Monthly Archives: March 2008

New strategy for commodity speculators

Saturday, March 29, 2008

I’ve published about Red Kite hedge fund twice in my blog. Essentially their strategy was always to manipulate prices of commodities upward by taking enormously large positions. The difference of commodity futures from stocks is that eventually you need to roll them over, otherwise you will get a barge of grain at your doorsteps in […]

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Feds to open the Pandora box

Saturday, March 22, 2008

This Thursday was the historic day. The Feds made an announcement that was so stunning that I was puzzled how to write about that. But now I think you just read it yourself first:

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Watch credit lines

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

The recent story of the fallen Bear unfolded like a ballet, where every pas was beautiful and important, but still unpredictable for most people (me included).
I want to uncover few steps - where the real ballet master will probably see much more, but even a casual watcher is thrilled:

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