/biz/ - Business & Finance

Two things; first, I noticed Gary Gensler administered a for-profit university called Strategic Education. This seems like one of those schools that get you (((connections))). It pays a 3% divvy and has only a 0.6 beta. Considering a few bags to round out my poorfolio, but also notice the amount of holders, not sure how that works.

Secondly, looking at forex pairs, carry trades give you an annual return based on the interest rates (swap). However, MT4/5 also lets you do CFDs on other instruments. Curiously I saw that going long or short btc has a negative carry (you pay daily interest for a position).
Nickel vs USD has a long carry cost of -640 and a short carry of +89
Zinc vs USD has a long carry cost of +21 and a short carry of -131
I find it interesting that they are structured this way. It sounds like MMs are trying to tilt traders into doing one type of trade or the other, long term. Eg, the cost of long exposure to Nickel is high due to bullish factors, so they are discouraging trades, trying to get people to round out the other side