Goldman, Dresdner, the hedge fund and the barrier – Part 2

I received a fair amount of feedback about the article on the shenanigans surrounding the barrier event – or not as the case may be – in EUR/SEK on July 5. I also got a lot of requests asking me to send the story on. It’s available for everyone to read – all you need is a subscription to the Weekly FiX.

Goldman, Dresdner, the hedge fund and the barrier

Most of the comments have been positive. “The whole way the market conducts itself (around barriers) is a major issue. Nobody wants to have a formal code of conduct and to some extent the banks are holding a gun to their own heads,” one hedge fund salesman told the Weekly FiX.

A slightly different take came from a senior options trader, who witnessed what was going on. He said that the main problem is that nobody really knows what the rules are.

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