Fed jawboning has the carry trades coming off. My NAV is now down 40%! Came close to a margin call. No free lunch kids.

Extreme long term Hedged Carry Trade Position Building journal

I figured I'd fully embrace the currency wars so I added a gold position. Only leverage you can use now after Dodd Frank is 1:1 (hmm wonder why?) so that's what I'm doing Long gold and short: EUR, USD, JPY, GBP all in equal weighting. Let the games ...

Extreme long term Hedged Carry Trade Position Building journal

"jhl72: I am also thinking of a ~5 long / 5 short port. I was curious though about the reason you skipped HUF and INR as longs even though they are have some of the highest yields." Simply because I didn't think of them but keep in mind that the ...

Extreme long term Hedged Carry Trade Position Building journal

Update. So far I've earned $7,934.87 in interest. The most my NAV was down was about 10% at the end of December 2012 when Congress was voting on making the Bush tax cuts permanent. That has been the only "risk off" event to date Today is the day ...

Extreme long term Hedged Carry Trade Position Building journal

I've set up a portfolio similar to the OP in my Oanda practice account. With $100,000 I've purchased $200,000 each of the following high yielding currencies ($1 million total): ZAR TRY PLN MXN AUD And shorted the following low yielding currencies in ...

Extreme long term Hedged Carry Trade Position Building journal