[gedward3]

Originally Posted by stusse

well, wherever you get them from, those charts are not for free and you should not post them here.. They don't cost very much either, so if someone wants 'em they should easily be able pay for it, and by doing that support the creators.

Stusse,

Stop getting your knickers in a twist. They just got a free bit of advertising
where potentially people will go look at their site like i did to see what they
offer.

He did it in good faith as somebody asked him where he was getting the levels from

Ged

[stusse]

Originally Posted by gedward3

Stusse,

Stop getting your knickers in a twist. They just got a free bit of advertising
where potentially people will go look at their site like i did to see what they
offer.

He did it in good faith as somebody asked him where he was getting the levels from

Ged

Ah gee I'm sorry, thanks for making sure this forum is a happy place

[gedward3]

Originally Posted by stusse

Ah gee I'm sorry, thanks for making sure this forum is a happy place

Somebody has to try

[sellit]

Originally Posted by stusse

Ah gee I'm sorry, thanks for making sure this forum is a happy place

Go get yourself a free trial!...they worked today...low in the bund is still 122.38!

[montmorencyt2w]

Originally Posted by sellit

Fair enough...I was not going to post them everyday...just trying to help. Anyway, they work for me. Good luck!

Thanks for your offer, but I would not have taken you up on it, partly for the reasons mentioned. Also because at the moment, I am more interested in learning about the various forces which drive this thing, whether it be fundamentals/intermarket relationships/other factors, rather than technicals. Technicals are important as well, but I prefer to try to work those out for myself.

By the way, I didn't ask where he was getting the levels from, but upon what his analysis was based (i.e. TA or FA or a mixture, or tea leaves or whatever).

BTW I read somewhere (was it FXstreet??) a longer term analysis saying it could go very high towards end of year, but I don't know really what this was based on. Mostly technical I think.

Well as I write, it looks like it doesn't want to break below 122.44-47 or so for the time being.

[Martinghoul]

There's a seasonal flattening pattern, generally, that's observed in a variety of rates mkts. That might be one of the reasons why people might generally believe in bund etc outperformance into year-end.

[stusse]

Originally Posted by Martinghoul

There's a seasonal flattening pattern, generally, that's observed in a variety of rates mkts. That might be one of the reasons why people might generally believe in bund etc outperformance into year-end.

could you explain what would drive this seasnoal flattening?

[Martinghoul]

Originally Posted by stusse

could you explain what would drive this seasnoal flattening?

Well, I'll give you a brief summary of my understanding of it, based on what I know goes on in sterling and, to a lesser extent, in EUR. Basically, into year end pension funds get a lot of scrutiny from a variety of stakeholders and normally engage in some discrete window-dressing. Among the people that look at the books is an in-house actuary that normally finds that, to be on the safe side, they should decrease the duration gap (avg duration of their liabilities vs avg duration of their assets). This sort of window-dressing, across the industry, normally results in a healthy bid for long-dated assets, which flattens the curve.

As I said, this is just my 2c on the subject...