Originally Posted by
Butterfly
You can't start a SWAP with a value that is different from a MV of 0, it's neutral for both parties that enter into a SWAP deal. There is no cash exchanged, the Market Value of the SWAP is 0. If I start the SWAP with a "strike" of 500, I am already in the red and the burden of risk remains with me from the start.
No shit it's a losing prop for you. You're the one that called $500 in a few months (but of course are not willing to put your money down).
You think these 'financial instruments' you claim such authority on are so complex? Don't flatter yourself. Nice wriggle anyway, make a huge call then be totally unwilling to back it up.
Of course the burden of risk is with you if you are willing to put your money where your mouth is calling gold to be cut in more than half in the next few months.
And you make no sense anyway, you are willing to go with a $1K bench? does this still not put you behind from the start? What a tangled web you have weaved assuming everyone is so stupid. This is just like the light saber app prop bet you welched out of.
And don't kid yourself by thinking that any of these highly complex derivatives only your are smart enough to understand, are anything but gambling.
Say what you want about poker players but it was not us that brought down the entire US financial system with toxic mortgage bundles and and other such derivatives that prey on the weak.