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Factor in your current interest rate, future interest rate if you have an adjustable loan, and closing costs.
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My most worrying encounter is with a derivatives trader who trades interest rate futures.
There is an ongoing manipulation of interest rate futures on a scale much larger than Libor.
The pound fell nearly half a cent against the dollar and interest rate futures rallied on the news.
US interest rate futures are pricing in about a 70% chance of a rate rise in December but virtually no likelihood of a rise on Wednesday.
Interest rate futures contracts are already pricing in additional cuts as soon as next month, and some economists forecast that the benchmark rate will fall to 5.25percentthis yearar.
Some derivatives, like stock options and interest rate futures, are already regulated because they are traded on exchanges like the Chicago Board of Trade.
Comments by Bank governor Mark Carney on Thursday that rates could increase sooner than markets thought prompted financial players to bring forward their bets for a hike to Christmas rather than in 2015, prompting sharp movements in interest rate futures.
Prices of interest rate futures imply that buyers expect the Fed's benchmark short-term rate to rise soon from its current 46-year low of 1percentt -- reaching 1.25percentt by August and 1.75percentt by December.
That must then be benchmarked against what has happened to the stock market, interest rate futures and the value of the Australian dollar over the time the election probabilities have changed.
Hedging by taking short positions in interest rate futures is too expensive and complicated for most individual investors, and so-called inverse funds, which use leverage and take short positions, are too speculative for many investors.
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