Posts Tagged ‘currency cycles’
A trader faces credit influencede by his estimates
Friday, April 16, 2010 20:38 Comments OffAs mentioned above, the choice each trader faces between market orders and limit orders is influenced by his estimate of the probability of execution, which depends both on the depth of the book at the time of the order submission and on the number of orders that may arrive over the remainder of the day. [...]
Solving your credit risk appetite problems
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 11:29 Comments OffThe corporate bond market is a leading indicator of economic activity. However, its forecasting power is obviously not perfect, because – like equity markets – credit spreads sometimes predict recessions that do not occur subsequently. After the 1987 stock market crash, for example, credit spreads widened significantly. Asimilar observation could be made in 1998, following [...]