Ep 3. Bond Markets -Signal or Noise?

Trader Chats

In this episode Imran Lakha, founder of Options insight, talks to Hussein Nasser, an ex-bank bond and credit trader with 20 years in the industry.

They discuss Hussein’s background in markets and all the products that he has been exposed to in his impressive career. Imran quizzes him on whether bond traders really have a better handle on the economy than stock investors and how much signal remains in markets prices after the introduction of QE and the distortions that creates in both treasuries and credit markets.

Hussein gives a quick explanation of how the repo market works and why the FED’s repo facility gets used so extensively by banks. Now that Nasser trades for himself an has left banking, they discuss how he found that transition and what type of trades he is doing now to extract value from the market.

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