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  • commenter
    wobatus
    Jun 13 08:16 AM
    GFI Group Is Not Your Typical Brokerage [view article]
    ergo sum, I assume you are short or a rogue broker. :) Reply
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    ergo sum
    Jun 12 11:58 PM
    GFI Group Is Not Your Typical Brokerage [view article]
    hopefully there are not 'rouge' traders
    did you mean 'rogue traders' at their competitors
    when you meant 'rogue brokers', and really they are brokers that just left for another interbank broker...not rogues in any sense like a rogue trader.
    Do you know the difference between wholesale and retail brokers? Go visit. It should help.     Reply
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    ergo sum
    Jun 12 11:48 PM
    GFI Group Is Not Your Typical Brokerage [view article]
    By the articles, "line of thinking" if you can call it that...when you lose your cash cow you are a good investment. So we should all be buying AMBAC and MBIA and even LEHMAN and UBS because their business models or practice of their business models have failed. Yup I see your point. I would have preferred to have bought the credit default protection. Reply
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    ergo sum
    Jun 12 11:45 PM
    GFI Group Is Not Your Typical Brokerage [view article]
    Massive increase in liquidity? Lets see BIS says derivatives are at 576 trillion dollars and rising how much liquidity do you want? Or is it you are confounding your vague notion of the lack of liquidity first IN CP, then SIV , then Subprime mortgages, somehow with the complete other end of the spectrum Credit default swaps? The inability to distinguish one three letter acronym from another starts here apparently.
    No, UFOs are not a financial product or derivative.     Reply
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    ergo sum
    Jun 12 11:40 PM
    GFI Group Is Not Your Typical Brokerage [view article]
    Its nice to see that not only do you have know idea in this article what you are writing about but that you also censor comments correcting the facts as you have mine in the last twenty-four hours.
    Brokers don't really have 'balance sheets' like banks do. Brokers interbank brokers have almost no overhead to speak of except computers and rental space.... Clearly the column should be renamed
    "Affirming the ignorance of the Ignorant"     Reply
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    ergo sum
    Jun 12 11:36 PM
    GFI Group Is Not Your Typical Brokerage [view article]
    Utter non-sense. They are a broker so they have no exposure to pay on a default swap unless they are stuffed. And Having lost their whole A Team in credit default swaps its unlikely they are doing as much business, re the lost 50 mil a year.
    "Clearing house of sorts" what sorts. What does that mean. Does it mean you have no clue what you are writing about?     Reply
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    Greg Feirman
    Jun 12 07:46 PM
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    GFI Group Is Not Your Typical Brokerage [view article]
    A key worry with GFIG also appears to be any exposure they might have on their balance sheet to paying out on any credit default swaps should someone go under. They keep saying they have no exposure on their balance sheet and act only as a broker. But these fears have weighed on their share price, unfairly in my opinion.

    What makes you so sure GFIG would be a primary beneficiary of any centralized clearing house? Wouldn't the bigger brokers try to muscle in and take over this lucrative business?     Reply
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    ergo sum
    Jun 12 01:19 AM
    GFI Group: It's Not Your Typical Brokerage [view article]
    write... Reply
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    ergo sum
    Jun 12 01:17 AM
    GFI Group: It's Not Your Typical Brokerage [view article]
    dishonesty in the sub prime mortgage markets and greed on wall street which securitized and resold that dishonesty account for the credit crunch not derivatives. And numbskulls like yourself who don't bother to investigate what they right about help too. Reply
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    ergo sum
    Jun 12 01:12 AM
    GFI Group: It's Not Your Typical Brokerage [view article]
    Credit derivatives currently account for a little of 30% of GFI Groups revenue. ---basically a meaningless statement....
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    ergo sum
    Jun 12 01:08 AM
    GFI Group: It's Not Your Typical Brokerage [view article]
    what you fail to mention is that the credit derivatives team LEFT with 50 million in yearly busines...and their credit derivatives slowdown has nothing to do with what you describe. In fact the Credit default swap market is going gangbusters in this default filled world.
    It also remians to be seen if the proposed exchanges come to pass, and whether they will have any impact on the predominantly voice brokered market....so what are you smoking exactly?     Reply
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    User 153029
    Jun 11 06:55 PM
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    GFI Group: It's Not Your Typical Brokerage [view article]
    I agree with your comments. You did not mention the low valuation relative to likely future prospects and the insider buying.

    Edward Roche, President Freedom Mountain Investments     Reply
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    User 26737
    Jun 11 08:31 AM
    GFI Group: It's Not Your Typical Brokerage [view article]
    TOTALLY agree with your analysis and assumptions. Reply
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    nayr
    Apr 21 02:38 AM
    My Website
    Friday's Options Report: GOOG, CCK, GFIG, SLE, MSFT, C, OSK, KEY [view article]
    Yeah msft is the deal, I think, for next week. I am buying more if I get any drop before earnings.
    Ryan     Reply
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    clearidea
    Apr 19 09:59 AM
    Friday's Options Report: GOOG, CCK, GFIG, SLE, MSFT, C, OSK, KEY [view article]
    Like the stock ..dividends great and a great potential for growth Reply

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