Vikram Saxena

Uneasy Silence About Regional Banks

What I wanted to highlight was the complete black out about the regionals. Given Team Obama's media savvy, I would like to see some proof before I jump in.

The note about preferred is from the WSJ article. I am including the relevant excerpts below.
Quote WSJ:
"In addition, it isn't clear what happens to hobbled regional banks that could have a hard time finding extra capital. Many are facing a deluge of bad loans to finance residential and commercial properties.

Regions, based in Birmingham, Ala., is among a handful of the tested banks without any privately held preferred shares that it could convert into common stock to boost its capital buffer, according to Deutsche Bank. That leaves it with a narrow range of options beyond turning to the government for aid."

On May 07 11:02 AM greedcanbgood wrote:

> "Many of these banks, especially Regions, do not have a large cushion
> of preferred capital to convert to common."
>
> Your analysis is incomplete unless you provide details. Otherwise,
> the reader is led to believe that all your regional listed are in
> the same boat and clearly, they are not.

Uneasy Silence About Regional Banks

1. I am sorry for the spelling error. This was done very late last night and Seeking Alpha's editor does not have a spell-check (or allow the built in checker of Chrome to highlight spelling mistakes).

2. Before the wireless revolution what you call the obscure was the more common idiomatic use of the word
www.thefreedictionary....


On May 07 10:36 AM Kenny Sullivan wrote:

> Ever hear of spell check? Poor spelling, poor grammar and an obscure,
> if not wrong, use of of the word tether are unprofessional. I began
> looking for errors in the article, rather than looking for content.
>
> Kenny Sullivan

Some Caveats on Trading Ultra ETFs on Big Move Days

PROXIMO:

What I wanted to highlight was that on trend days with large moves, the 3x ETFs are not to be bought in anticipation of a reversal. Any continuation of the move results in significantly large percentage losses which can not be made up by a reversal the next day in the underlying index to the original purchase point. These distortion exist everyday but their amplitude gets magnified on a day when the underlying index makes a 15% move, cutting the value of the opposing 3x ETF by 45%. A trader who started buying FAZ towards the close of Monday had to endure a much larger percentage loss in his capital for every equivalent move in the index, To profit from the the reversal,the index will have to make a much larger move to break even. on Tueasday.