Sunday, May 27, 2012

極少人知道的手機四大隱藏功能

手機使用小秘訣,讓你的手機永遠有電! ! !

1、隱形的備用電池
你的手機電量不足了,為了讓它能夠繼續使用,按*3370#鍵,手機會重新啟動,啟動完畢後,你就會發現電量增加了50%。這部分隱藏的備用電量用完了你就必須得充電了,再次充電的時候,隱形的備用電池也同時充電,下次電量低的時候又可以用這個方法。知道這個在緊急情況下如果手機電量不足非常管用。

2、車用遙控器落在車裡了?
你的車用遙控能打開吧?如果可以,在你有一天將車用遙控器落在車里而且備用的遙控又在家裡的話,你會發現有個手機真方便,用手機撥通家里人的手機,將你的手機拿在離車門一英尺的地方,同時家里人拿著遙控器在他的手機旁邊按響遙控器上的開鎖鍵,這邊你的車門就可以打開了。這個方法不管你把車開得離家有多遠都奏效。

3、緊急情況
全世界的手機都可以撥打的共同緊急救援號碼是112,加入你發現自己所在的地區無手機信號覆蓋,同時你又遇到了緊急狀況,用你的手機撥打112準沒錯,因為這時候你的手機會自動搜索所有可用的網絡並建立起緊急呼叫。特別有趣的是,即使你的手機是在鍵盤鎖定的狀態,你同樣可以撥打112。試試吧!

4、手機被偷了?
有個辦法讓小偷也用不了,嘿嘿!查看手機的序列號,只需鍵入* # 0 6 #, 15位序列號會出現在手機屏幕上,全世界的每一台手機都有一個獨一無二的序列號,把這個序列號記錄下來並保存好。有一天如果你的手機不幸被偷了,打電話給手機提供商,並提供你的手機序列號,他們會幫你把手機屏蔽,這樣即使小偷換了SIM卡,仍然無法使用,你的手機對小偷來說變得一無是處。如果全世界每個手機持有者都這麼做,那麼偷手機就沒有意義了。在澳洲,警方甚至建立了一個被盜手機數據庫,如果你的手機被找到了,就可以歸還給你了。

日常維護必用:

1、手機電池不要等到沒電才充電。
一般我們都會有一種想法就是手機的電池電力要全部放完再充電比較好基本上是沒錯的,因為我們在以前使用的充電電池大部分是鎳氫(NiH)電池,而鎳氫電池有所謂的記憶效應若不放完電再充的話會導致電池壽命急速減少。因此我們才會用到最後一滴電才開始充電。但現在的手機及一般IA產品大部分都用鋰(Li)電池,而鋰電池的話就沒有記憶效應的問題。若大家還是等到全部用完電後再充的話反而會使得鋰電池內部的化學物質無法反應而壽命減少。最好的方法就是沒事就充電讓它隨時隨地保持最佳滿格狀態,這樣你的電池就可用的又長又久喔。這是從廠商那得到的訊息,並經過本身測試而得。

2、當手機正在充電時,請勿接電話! !
原因是手機在充電時,來電接聽的話會有潛在的危險。印度有一個31歲在保險公司任職業務經理的年輕人,十幾天前在手機還接著充電器的時候接聽電話,過了幾秒大量的電流經過手機,這個年輕人被摔落到地面,家人發現時,手指燒傷,心跳微弱,並且已經失去意識。經緊急送到醫院後,醫生宣佈到院死亡。行動電話是目前大家最常使用的現代發明。然而,我們也必須要警覺到儀器致死的危險。

3、手機剩一格時不要使用
收訊滿格與只剩一格時相比,發射強度竟然相差1000倍以上.所以……常講手機的人……要注意哦……^0^、昨天從一位手機商那兒獲得一項很重要的訊息,那就是當你發現手機的收訊強度只剩下一格的時候,寧可掛斷不談或者是改用公用電話.千萬不要再滔滔不絕、口沫橫飛、濃情蜜意、欲罷不能、沒完沒了…為什么呢?大家都知道手機的電磁波一直是讓人擔心的問題.而手機的設計為了在收訊較差的地區仍能保有相當的通話質量,會加強手機的電磁波發射強度.當收訊滿格與只剩一格時相比,發射強度竟然相差1000倍以上.




4. 12593 電話號碼=陷阱
你是不是把外地朋友的電話用17951 電話號碼的格式儲存在電話號碼本里?而不是單獨撥?那麼收費就會從0.39元每分鐘變成1.3元每分鐘.我也向1860查詢過了他們的解釋是如果儲存在電話號碼本里?系統將無法識別。所以無法獲得資費優惠,必須每次在鍵盤上直接按12xxx。神州行用戶如此?動感地帶用戶,全球通也一樣。如果你是一個中國移動用戶,當你知道中國移動為你設置以下的陷阱的時候,便不再驚訝於你的話費為何會像長了翅膀一樣的飛走。用12593 電話號碼可以優惠,但如果你預先將“12593 電話號碼“存在手機的電話本,使用的時候調出來然後拔打出去,這時中國移動不承認你使用了12593這種優惠的拔打方式,而按照直接拔打的方式計費。如果你是在漫遊,兩種計費方式可以相差7倍之多!當我得知如此計費之後,我真的不知如何表達我的憤怒,後來打10086諮詢時,如果不是主動冶詢問這個問題,工號為6608的小姐根本就不告訴我這樣的計費。

5、手機費的寄生蟲
手機莫名其妙定置了無用短信,強烈建議大家都看一下自己有沒有中招,最簡單方法退訂每月偷你手機費的寄生蟲!中國移動在3.15被迫推出一項新業務,如果您是中國移動的手機用戶,鍵入數字“0000“,發送短信至10086,數秒鐘內將自動回復一條短信列表,顯示您的手機上究竟訂製了哪些短信服務,究竟是哪些短信服務商明著、暗著每月扣除您的手機費;鍵入數字“00000“,發送短信至186201,即可退訂所有短信服務。

6、不要趕著湊正好1分鐘
我們打電話的時候常常會為了正好趕在1:00前結束而慶幸,但其實並不是這樣的,據一位中國移動的工作人員說,其實在你通話到0:55的時候就已經算一分鐘了,所以0:55~1:00的通話時間其實是算你2分鐘的錢~

7、手機一進水,請切記不要作任何按鍵動作,尤其是關機(一按任何動作,水馬上會跟著電路板流串),正確的方法為馬上打開外蓋,直接將電池拿下,直接強迫斷電,可保主機板不被水侵襲。



這個常識非常重要,故轉告各位,使大家的手機可用久一點。學一學吧!以後以備不時之需啊!



8、如何讓手機電池起死回生
當你的行動電話電池使用時間變短(記憶效應或老化)時,你是否會再買一顆電池來更換呢?
下次當你碰到這種情況時請省下你的錢,告訴你一個很有效的方法不妨試試看:
1)把電池用報紙包起來再放進塑料袋裹包好放入冷凍庫三天(報紙可吸收多餘水份)
2)三天后取出常溫下放二天
3)二天后將電池充電,​​充飽後裝進行動電話裹測試(預估可救回80%-90%)
本訊息由知名電池廠商工程師透露,根據測試過的朋友指出效果相當有效.
至於有沒有效果,反正電池快沒用了,而且冰箱人人有,各位朋友不妨試試看吧!

9、給你的手機做個CPR吧!
手機是否常斷電?或是明明充飽了電沒多久就又沒電了?
一定懷疑過是不是手機的壽命終了?
別擔心,它只是一時“心跳停止”,只要一塊小小的橡皮擦就能起死回生了!
把電池取出後用橡皮擦把電池上的接點(黃銅片)擦乾淨,再裝回手機上,你會發現真是太神奇了!它竟然活過來了!還像顆新的呢!


真的很有用,提供大家做參考!

10、教你如何消除手機屏幕刮痕
大家是否常常會遇到手機屏幕有刮痕而不知如何處理的情況呢?
告訴大家一個好用的秘方....(前幾天在電視上看到的)
把牙膏適量擠在濕抹布上後用力在手機屏幕刮傷處前後左右來回用力塗勻.....
你將發現.....手機的屏幕刮痕會因此而消失....很神奇吧...​​!!
更神奇的事....在用乾淨的抹布或衛生紙擦乾淨後..手機屏幕還會變得更亮哦....
台大化學教授表示:原理為牙膏它只是刷牙的輔助用品,具有磨擦作用(修補作用) 和去除菌斑,清潔拋光牙面,因此使用在手機屏幕上面會有同樣的效果。

Saturday, May 26, 2012

逾50萬電腦中毒7月9日後沒法上網

【星島日報】搜尋網站Google展開一項重點宣傳運動,提醒全球逾50萬名電腦用家盡快做好修復和除毒工作,並要做好備份,儲存自己電腦內的資料,因為他們的電腦可能中了病毒。如果不做修復工作的話,可能在7月9日限期過後便無法上網。雖然限期愈來愈逼近,但有大量網民不知道有這回事,也不知道自己的電腦是否已經中了毒。

事緣去年有一批國際黑客在網上發放病毒,藉著廣告行騙。美國聯邦調查局除了採取拘捕行動外,還不尋常地作出應變措施,數月前利用美國聯邦政府的電腦網絡設立一個安全網,讓中了毒的電腦可以暫時繼續上網。不過,這套安全系統將於7月9日關閉,仍未掃除病毒及完成修復工作的電腦,過了那天之後可能無法再上網。

由於仍有許多網民不知道自己的電腦是否中了病毒,Google日前宣布展開一場宣傳運動,在搜尋網站的頁頂,向中了招的機主發出警告,提醒他們盡快完成修復工作。

Friday, May 25, 2012

Market Stabilized; Waiting For Sign Of Bottoming

Market oscillates for the week on Greek fear. Although speculating traders and market manipulators continue to weigh down market, selling is eased as oversold stocks are bought up by hot money in the market. Sellers are beginning to run out of stocks. Market manipulators have very limited short position in stocks. Therefore although market seems to have reached the bottom, there is no short covering rally as in last year when market manipulators covered the short positions.

Institutional and individual investors are waiting cautiously for the sign of market bottom. Traders and market manipulators are aware of the possibility of a strong rebound due to surge buying from bargain hunters. As a result, trading volume decreases when market participants are expecting market to show any sign of bottom.

As mentioned in earlier posts, global financial market is flooded with hot money. In developed countries, people still have memory of the 2008 financial meltdown and remain cautious on risky assets. Treasuries and bonds are the safe haven of personal wealth. Market manipulators attempt to make profit from market turbulence. In emerging markets, hot money is finding ways into wealth assets with the exception of equity stocks. It appears that some hot money in developed countries which creates turbulence in equity stock market also expands into emerging markets.



Burned by the Best of Breed: Barry Ritholtz on JP Morgan
It sure made sense at the time. After getting pounded last fall to multi-year lows, the nation's battered banking industry was poised for a pop. By the New Year, the market's hottest sector was turning skeptics into converts by the day, and all that was needed to get in on it was a little nerve and some money.

That's essentially what brought Barry Ritholtz, and countless other profit-seekers like him, back to the banks—and, more specifically, back into shares of JP Morgan. They saw the performance, leadership, and improving earnings, but they also had a long list of names to avoid. They therefore decided that going with the best of breed was a smart way to go.


Don’t Look Now, but Here Comes Housing!
Last decade's housing boom is still inflicting a world of pain on lenders, homeowners and the financial system. Home prices are still falling. But there are growing signs that a sector that had become a massive drag on growth is now becoming a factor that can add to growth. We've written before of the ways in which housing is important for economic growth — it uses lots of local labor and materials, and transactions generate a lot of collateral activity and taxes.

Traders Calm as CBO Warns Fiscal Cliff Will Put Us Back in Recession
Three and a half years after the trough of the financial crisis in 2009 the R-word is once again being thrown around. The latest purveyor of pessimism is none other than the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), who warned in a note this week that our fledgling recovery could slip back into recession as we speed toward the edge of a dangerous "fiscal cliff."

3 Signs You’re Gambling, Not Investing!
Never has there been a time in market history when more people who think of themselves as investors were actually gambling with their money. From Wall Street to Main Street the lines are blurry. Just look at the trials of JP Morgan (JPM), where even the bank itself confused hedging risk with making an enormous bet; and Facebook (FB), whose IPO created a frenzy that has so far lost money for investors that rushed in.

FDIC: Bank profits at highest level since 2007
Bank profits rose in the first quarter of 2012, reaching their highest quarterly levels since the second quarter of 2007, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s quarterly banking report, released Thursday. However, total loan and lease balances on the books of banks declined by $56 billion in the quarter, a situation that FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg said was "disappointing" after the industry saw three quarters of growth last year. Bank net income for the first quarter of 2012 was $35.3 billion, up by $6.6 billion from the first quarter of 2011. Meanwhile, revenues -- driven partly by gains on loan sales -- increased for only the second time in the past five quarters. Net operating revenue increased by $5 billion from the year-earlier querter. The FDIC said that once again lower provisions for loan losses contributed to earnings improvement. The number of banks on the FDIC's "problem list" fell to 772 from 813 during the first quarter of 2012, and the assets of problem institutions declined to $292 billion from $319 billion.

U.S. Economy Has Momentum But “Dramatic Seizure” of Capital Markets Is Big Risk: Laura Tyson
"The biggest danger to the world economy is a disruptive, disorderly exit from Greece, which causes a major seizure of credit markets in Europe," Tyson says. "You can't rule out the possibility of some dramatic seizure of capital markets, that's the great risk. It's not the recession itself."

As usual, the stock market grabs the headlines (See: Botched IPO, Facebook's) but the bond market is a better indicator of investors' appetite for risk -- or lack thereof.

In recent days, yields on German, U.S., Swiss, French, Australian and Canadian bonds have traded at or near record lows as global investors seek refuge from the sovereign debts of Europe's PIIGS as well as junk bonds and emerging market debt.

"There is a pulling back from risk going on in the bond market. It's very troubling," says Ed Dempsey, Chief Investment Officer of Pension Partners. "It would seem the bond market is signaling to us there is some sort of event that is imminent [and] it seems most likely that event is coming out of Europe."

Monday, May 21, 2012

鄭秀文專訪 (聲音檔案)

鄭秀文專訪 (聲音檔案) Part 1


鄭秀文專訪 (聲音檔案) Part 2


鄭秀文專訪 (聲音檔案) Part 3

Saturday, May 19, 2012

fb賺錢新法:付12元「逼」朋友看更新

【明報專訊】facebook不再只為用家而放棄賺錢機會。隨着2月申請首次公開招股,已接踵推出諸如收費應用程式商店、手機廣告、地方商家優惠券等賺錢方式。《華爾街日報》稱,fb除了想鞏固廣告收益,顯然還志在要賺用家的錢。

上周,fb向新西蘭用家推出一項新的「Highlight」服務,只要花2紐元(11.75港元)就能確保fb上的朋友必定會讀到用家本人的最新動向。有網民便認為,這做法有違fb的「完全並永遠免費」宗旨,效用亦恐有限。新西蘭fb用戶拉瑟福德便說,雖習慣頻頻更新個人信息和貼相,但她無意要其250個網友必定看到。「我不認為我所講的,有什麼重要到非花兩紐元不可。」

仿蘋果推收費App

fb還計劃數周內推出像蘋果iTunes App Store的網上商店App Center,提供一些收費的應用程式,供用家選購。另外,它上周又悄悄加強了其供用戶群組共享檔案的網上存儲服務。儘管fb未有提出收費,不過觀乎競爭對手Google、蘋果等的做法,都是基本用家全免,但會向大用量者收費。相信fb也會效法。

fb去年37億美元收入中,廣告收入佔85%。fb應投資者所願,拓展廣告以外財源,但沒有忽略廣告收益。除了近月大增用戶主頁右邊的廣告位,fb也推出了Offers服務,供商戶向所在地fb用家,寄送宣傳品;通過手機看fb信息者,亦將看到收費廣告。

Possible rocket engine problem triggered SpaceX launch abort

By Clara Moskowitz
© 2012 Space.com. All rights reserved.


The launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station was delayed on Saturday when a computer detected a possible problem with one of the rocket's engines, a Space Exploration Technologies official said.

A potential rocket engine problem may be to blame for the unexpected abort of a private SpaceX rocket launch before dawn on Saturday, officials said.

SpaceX was slated to blast off its unmanned Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket at 4:55 a.m. ET from here at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Just after igniting its main engines, the computer onboard the booster initiated an automatic abort due to a high pressure reading in one of the rocket's nine main engines.

Dragon was due to fly to the International Space Station to become the first non-governmental vehicle to berth there. The spacecraft's next chance to launch is Tuesday at 3:44 a.m. ET, followed by a potential opportunity Wednesday at 3:22 a.m. ET.

Before SpaceX targets a new launch date, however, the company will search for the root cause of Saturday's glitch.

"We should have some technicians up into that engine at about noon today," SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell said during a news briefing following the abort. "We'll be up looking for whatever we can find."

Initial indications suggest that the high pressure reading wasn't a sensor error, but did in fact indicate an abnormally high pressure inside the chamber of the Falcon 9's engine five, Shotwell said.

"Now we're just going to have to go in and spend a little bit more time looking at the data," she added.

If the engine looks to be unusable, SpaceX has another Falcon 9 here from which an engine could be swapped out, Shotwell said.

The flight is a trial run for SpaceX's plan to deliver cargo, and eventually crew, to the space station. The mission is partially funded by NASA's COTS (Commercial Orbital Transportation Services) program, and the firm has a NASA contract to fly 12 delivery missions to the outpost once test flights are completed.

"We're ready to support when SpaceX is ready to go," Alan Lindenmoyer, manager of NASA's commercial crew and cargo program, said during the briefing.

Officials from both NASA and SpaceX have emphasized the uncertain nature of test flights, and said that the main goal was to gather more data about the vehicle.

"This is not a failure," Shotwell said. "We aborted with purpose. It would have been a failure if we had lifted off with an engine trending in this direction."

Friday, May 18, 2012

Euro Zone Crisis Weighs Down Market

The Euro zone crisis is finally used to weigh down market. Broad market index slides on consecutive days. Traders become more active as the fear spreads among market participants. Hot money becomes more cautious on risky assets. However, as liquidity provides support for wealth assets, market participants do not enter in panic selling.

So far there is no symptom of heavy short selling from market manipulators. Lack of panic selling may make it not easy to make profit by short selling and the risk of short covering rally may drive speculators away from short selling. As individual investors are thin on portfolio holding, there is no sign of panic selling even market has declined for extended period of time.

The continuous market pullback weakens the confidence of market participants. And the loss of wealth also has impact on the overall economy. However, the loss is spread among the population and it is mostly paper loss without significant impact on money flow. Market manipulators and traders do not make huge profit as in the panic selling late last year.

Some nervous investors realize part of the profit for the stocks purchased during market bottom last year. However the selling pressure is not heavy as there is no need to liquidate in fire sale.

There is tremendous sideline cash, especially from individual investors. Instead of selling at the bottom, they have learned to exploit the cash on hand to pick up bargain. Current stock price is still above the fire sale price last year. Therefore they will wait patiently for the opportunity. Traders still have room to drag down market further until the bottom last year. If this can be reached, it may attract individual investors to replenish the portfolio. But it may have attracted smart traders to pick up the bargain before cautious hot money.

Market is finding the bottom as traders attempt to drag down market while risk money is picking bargain. If selling creates more market fear, more investors may take profit on the stocks purchased during the bottom last year. When these stocks are exhausted, the selling from speculators will disappear and the herd of market participants may rush to buy from the market.

Market participants should watch the development closely. Liquidity in the market will move fast and traders will acts swiftly to protect the profit.



Facebook IPO has halo effect for venture capitalists
In a business in which the best investment opportunities flow to a small number of firms with big reputations, the prestige boost that Accel Partners, Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital have gained from their Facebook investments dating back to 2005 and 2006 could pay dividends for years to come.

Facebook's earliest backers are sitting on a veritable fortune. Meritech's and Greylock's slices of Facebook will be worth more than $1 billion each.

But Accel Partners, which initially invested $12.7 million in Facebook at a $98 million valuation back in 2005, the year after it was founded, is clearly the big winner. Come the IPO, the current stake of Accel and its affiliates will be worth $6.3 billion, assuming a mid-point stock price of $31.50. It plans to sell a portion of that stake worth about $1.2 billion, according to the IPO prospectus.

"If you look at the cycle, every four to six years another company of (Facebook's) caliber gets created," said Chi-Hua Chien, currently a partner at Kleiner Perkins and a former associate at Accel who first brought Facebook to the Accel team's attention. He rattled off a list of names including: Amazon, in 1994; Google, in 1998; and Facebook, in 2004.

The outsized importance of the occasional monster deals means that venture capital firms sometimes find it worthwhile to get in - even late in the game.


Homes for Sale Grow Scarce as Sellers Await Higher Prices
Real estate agents, who spent the six-year U.S. housing collapse coaxing buyers off the fence, are now hunting for sellers as home inventories hover near lows last seen in 2005. A scarcity of properties signals the housing market's uneven recovery as purchasers trying to take advantage of record affordability run up against homeowners choosing to stay put in properties that aren't worth as much as they owe.

A housing affordability index that's based on a combination of resale prices, household income and mortgage rates reached an all-time high in the first quarter, the National Association of Realtors reported today. The index shows that a family with the median income of almost $61,000 could afford a $325,500 house, which is more than double the median existing single-family home price of $158,100 in the U.S.

Prices haven't recovered even as demand rises. Existing home sales this year through March were the highest for a first quarter since 2007, the National Association of Realtors reported on May 9. The median price in 146 metropolitan areas tracked by the group fell 0.4 percent from a year earlier to $158,100.

The inventory has tightened as investors, drawn by bargain prices and rising rents, bought 22 percent of homes sold in the first quarter, according to the National Association of Realtors. That's up from 21 percent of deals a year earlier.

Another source of supply, the inventory of new homes, fell to 144,000 in March, the fewest on records dating to 1963, the Commerce Department reported April 24. Homebuilders, still reeling from the construction and land-buying spree of the past decade, have cut the number of so-called spec homes, which are built without a buyer already lined up.

As sellers sit on the sidelines, bidding wars are flaring up in Denver, Miami, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Seattle and Washington, where bargain hunters, sensing a market bottom, have stepped up shopping.


Housing Starts Surge, but Don't Trade the Headline
April housing starts, at 717,000, were well above expectations and at the highest level since October 2008; March was revised upward as well.

Foreclosures Plunge to Five-Year Low in U.S. Recovery: Mortgages
Foreclosure filings in the U.S. fell to a five-year low last month as lenders sought to avoid seizing property and a housing recovery showed signs of taking hold.

The number of default, auction and seizure notices sent to homeowners in April totaled 188,780, down 14 percent from a year earlier and 5 percent from the previous month, according to RealtyTrac Inc. It was the lowest tally since July 2007, before the onset of the biggest housing crash in seven decades, the Irvine, California-based data seller said today in a report.

"Things are getting better and the number of vulnerable households is going down," Paul Willen, senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, said in a telephone interview. "The pool of borrowers is much more stable than it was two or three years ago."

The national home-price data belies improvements in many markets where "tighter inventories are beginning to lift home prices," CoreLogic Chief Executive Officer Anand Nallathambi said in a May 8 statement.

Affordability for homebuyers increased to the highest on record in the first quarter, based on the combination of low mortgage rates, low prices and improved incomes measured in a Realtors index.

"Housing demand is slowly beginning to recover," according to Joseph LaVorgna, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. in New York. "Banks are showing increasing willingness to lend to consumers, which should bode positively for the mortgage market. In turn, this would help shift the housing recovery into a higher gear."


As One JPMorgan Trader Sold Risky Contracts, Another One Bought Them
For hedge funds that could smell blood in the water, it seemed to be an opportunity to take on JPMorgan Chase and win.

Even as a trader for JPMorgan in London was selling piles of insurance on corporate debt, figuring that the economy was on the upswing, a mutual fund elsewhere at the bank was taking the other side of the bet.

That one hand of the bank was selling while another was buying is not uncommon in the dog-eat-dog world of Wall Street. Yet that trading is typically done on behalf of clients, not in a way that, inadvertently or not, undermines what the bank is doing for itself.

"You've got so many different businesses, they are not coordinated and they are not telling each other things and that turns out in this case to have been a virtue," said Robert Litan, vice president for research and policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. "But that also feeds into another concern, and that is that JPMorgan is not only too big to fail but too big to manage."

The rationale for the hedge funds was simple: with JPMorgan selling so much of this insurance, the price was artificially cheap. In buying it, the funds were betting that the cost would increase when the bank eventually stopped selling. Such a move would notch them a tidy profit while causing steep losses on paper for JPMorgan.

Similarly, any hiccup in the markets for corporate debt would also potentially hurt the bank's position, as it would make the cost of insuring the corporate debt more expensive. That, too, would be lucrative for the buyers.


Even Pros Don't Like Stocks: Could That Be Bullish Sign?
Wall Street strategists are the most negative they've been on stocks since the bull market began more than three years ago.

The consensus view of U.S. equity strategists from major banks is for investors to allocate just 52 percent of their portfolio to stocks and the rest to fixed income, commodities or cash, according to a Bloomberg survey.

This is the lowest allocation for stocks since the nearly 50 percent level that the survey reached back in March 2009.