Bill Rempel, a.k.a. NO DooDahs!

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Entries for September, 2008

Sep 2008 Returns

These are my personal trading returns as of month-end September 2008.
Current Month Return: -11.5%
Year To Date Return: -11.3%
3 Month Return: -7.1%
6 Month Return: -5.6%
12 Month Return: -11.1%
24 Month Return: 1.4%
24 Month Annualized Return: 0.7%
36 Month Return: 25.8%
36 Month Annualized Return: 8.0%
Since Inception Return: 35.0%
Since Inception, […]

Questioning Bailout = Terrorism?

Listen to Michelle Caruso-Cabrera’s and Steve Liesman’s comments here, starting at 1:40 into the tape:
CNBC video - Awaiting Bailout Plan, Pt. 3 - Sept 29, 2008
Obviously, anybody who questions the bailout and the rapid expansion of Federal power is like Timothy McVeigh. They say a lot of “crazy things” and need to “get with […]

Voted Down, Smacked Down, What To Do Next?

I have to say that I am amazed by the House voting down the Paulson Plan. My cynicism got the best of me, and I fully expected it to go through – regardless of its merit or lack thereof – and to be packed with as much additional pork as the congresscritters could amend […]

Cramer Vs. Roubini - Grist to the Mill

First, let me be clear that I have very little respect for either of them. Just to set the record straight.
It should be interesting, however, to perform the following experiment:
Find Cramer’s first call of a bottom in this stock market move. Wait for the eventual bottom to have made itself clear in retrospect. […]

Morgan Stanley’s “Structured Credit Insights”

This is the Morgan Stanley’s publication, “Structured Credit Insights - Instruments, Valuation and Strategies” (PDF). Link is to the 2006 version, which was the second edition.
The second edition contains 34 new and numerous revised chapters focused on several topics. Recent default events and significant repricing of tranche relationships motivated chapters on valuation […]