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Andy Constan
@dampedspring
DampedSpring.com macro & beta @2Graybeards for beta. Both for investor education, Brevan Howard, Bridgewater, Salomon, Dad of 4. Go Penn, No tweet is advice
Joined June 2013
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    Dampedspring.com offers three products that our clients value. Happy to discuss which product is best for you. Discounts available for multiple product packages. DS Read/Alpha. Our flagship macro economic research and trading strategy offering. We are excited to be
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    Hey I'm back. Been on self imposed break for two weeks. Let me reintroduce myself I'm Andy Constan and I'm 61 years old and have done some stuff and seen some things I love contributing to Twitter and look forward to contributing again I have a naive ideal that Twitter is the
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    I've been a professional bond trader for 35 years. 18 at the greatest bond trading house in history and the balance at two of the greatest hedge fund bond trading firms in history. You be the judge if I know how to trade bonds. I sell my macro research to a dozen of the
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    My dad is having Brain Cancer Surgery at the moment. Wish us luck.
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    I need to reset my moral and ethical compass perhaps. Could someone explain on Moral, Ethical or even religious grounds, if one prefers, the justification for Trump coin being Okay? I see it as a complete and total failure in judgement by our duly elected president who I
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    Dynamic hedging of a long call 101 This is going to be a really rough basics of dynamic hedging with no math. It's how I taught the Salomon Brothers and Bridgewater associates training class this topic. Just concepts. It's important to understand because sometimes the dynamic
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    The Brady commission a story. In 1987 on October 19th the stock market crashed. I was 23 years old and had been working at Salomon as a corporate finance analyst. The job was a two year stint where at the end you left to go to business school. It was a thrilling job.
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    Bessent changed the measure of success for the administration to 10 year yields instead of stonks for a reason. Are you paying attention
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    QT starts today a 101 thread. QT is simply the Fed reducing its balance sheet. They accomplish this in two ways. 1. They let their existing maturities payoff and they don't reinvest the proceeds and burn the cash (called runoff) 2. They sell bonds and mortgages into the private
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    I am wrong. If you feel the need to rub it in. Go ahead.
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    Deploy cash on the close
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    Dad died two years ago today. His family and his train collection were his greatest joys. RIP Dad.
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    My mother hosted a family reunion recently which I attended. Largely older folks than me I'm early Gen X and the guests were boomer and silent. They had zero understanding that they have stolen their standard of living from the future and were quite pissed that I told them so.