The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity. John F. Kennedy




This morning CRISIS version 1.0 hit european newspapers and media - for the first time every single media got SPECIAL EDITION on the crisis -
I find that somewhat positive as they so far have been talking about this AS IF... the crisis comes...

Second observation; what u dont die from you get stronger from?

The fact the market didnt total collapse this am in europe is good sign, same as asia... is there temp. lows in S&P in ?

Clearly the big losers are Paulson, Bush, and Washington, but cud the winner be "capitalisme" and the markets... ? I think so.. the plan would have been disaster.....


Other news:

• Ireland guarantees ALL bank deposits - wow, thats interesting.....
• Danish Nationalbank except all forms of collateral including old bicycles(i.e: non-traded stocks)
• O/N USD rates in 8-10% as we have turn money (September into October) - showing not enough collateral in the system for some of the banks.....
• This will be one of the worst month on record for hedge funds - we expect redemptions to exceed 10% of AUM at least , i.e more than 200 bln. US Dollars....

Strategy

We are trying to defend an excellent month by taking very small risk into the month-end - our primary focus has been stocks this month, next chapter in this story could very well the major move in the US dollar. Which way? Still unclear, the path of least resistance should be weaker US dollar based on their extreme need for funding from overseas, but for now it seems there is considerable repatriation going on from US based investors away from EMG back into the US, but to me this is merely matter of time, but tide is turning.

The issue as my good friend Lars keeps pointing out; the EUR is major disaster in every aspect, economically, cyclically, and policy-wise. Trichet will once again be forced to move away from his dogmatic views and into the REAL WORLD, as the Eruopean banks are collapsing one-by-one.

Left? CHF and JPY, I guess, if anyone can tell me what the Japanese investors will do the next three month, having savings exceeeding ALL THE SWF-funds in the world, I will tell you where the JPY (and US dollar goes)... keep me posted.

Moving into Q4 we could have potential for big positive return if the policy makers can stay away......Mind you the starting is low - the real deal though will be whether or not the REAL NEEDY, the US consumer with mortgages gets help or not - with the failure of the deal yesterday we are one step closer to proper solution - maybe?

Positions

Small long S&P from this morning, short T-bonds, long front-end US rates, long CHF vs GBP & EUR...

Good luck, and be safe