so now think about it - if Swiss (CHF) suddenly buy a ton of US treasuries, suddenly it will impact their currency - what do you think happens if they buy a lot of US 30y bonds?
Well, lets take a look...
Over the last week of december, it appears Swiss were selling US treasuries.
Then all of a sudden yesterday they decided (with other CB's) to BUY them back.
Every currency is a pair - USDJPY, CADEUR, etc.
DXY is different - its a kludgey ratio tht can be gamed.
Look what happened to DXY when swiss bought a ton of treasuries... (in purple)
CURRENCIES MATTER.
Now lets throw a stonk index on here - QQQ is one of the most sensitive to currencies and bond yields.
Look at that fkr jump around (orange)
Sometimes when i saw "swap" its also CB's dumping or buying bonds, just like this.
The baseball anology - from slide one.
Consider each ball a few BILLION in US treasuries.
If they sell to another CB, It skewes the DXY formula (the ratio is not even between member states).
SOME - like EU- have a MUCH bigger impact to DXY when they buy or sell treasuries.
If the SWISS were to buy treasuries from everyone, the swiss currency would get SUPER strong relative to every other member state - this would be TERRIBLE for swiss economy as a strong currncy kills your exports. npr.org/2011/08/11/139β¦
So what these CB's are doing is COORDINATING;so no 1 member state has a currency that is too strong or too weak - a weak currency creates an unfair advantage
When you go shopping/vacation, you go where the opposing currency is CHEAP relative to your own.
If i didnt leave america when i did I would have never understood the global trading system or currencies.
You benefit from my knowledge as I share what I have learned.
This is more of that.
This is a currency thread.
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Globalization has been a disaster for the american worker.
Globalization has ONLY been enabled thru currency manipulation by US trading parterners to create an inequitable trading balance, which puts massive downward pressure on US wages and jobs.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeβ¦
Yes, your shoes and clothes cost a little less - but the people in US who used to produce those products are now "public charges" and a burden on the American social system.
Not everyone can "learn to code" or be doctors or engineers.
Many honest folks just want to clock in, make money, and go home.
So i was thinking - "man, the euro sure did change in value quite rapidly. EU cant afford to buy back that debt like that....this was an external state actor....
I wonder who that could be?"
To explain, if you earn USD and you live in EU?
Life right now sucks.
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if you are a europee and you wanna go vacation?
The world is your oyster....especially asia.
You can buy a LOT in asia.
Currencies are pairs, or ratios.
2nd chart EURVND is inverted - again proving my oint, currencies are pairs.
You get nearly 30000 vnd for 1 of your europees.
But i wonder "who the fuck dumped EUR debt to do this". Either the ECB bought back debt (they cant) or someone international said "Fuck this im out"
Something happened March 4th that spooked the EU bond market.