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TTU120: Carry - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ft. Kevin Coldiron

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The Dangers of Volatility Suspension

The growth of carry trades has a tendency to push the level of volatility down, but also increases fragility when you have a spike and volatility than the margin for eror in that marginal trader. Volatility spikes during a crisis. That's very bad for carry traders. Fed intervention has the impact of capping that volatility and pushing it back down. So central bank intervention has helped truncate losses for forcarry tradersin crisis,. which in turn makes carry trades look more profitable.

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