Traders began to quietly re-engage with the FX markets, as Tokyo and Sydney opened on Monday evening/Tuesday morning. After a fractured ten day holiday period, over the Xmas and New Year period, London’s open will be closely monitored. Last week’s trading ended the year with gold (XAU/USD) finally breaking the critical 1,300 handle after slumping […]
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Trading in U.S. equities was approximately 40% below the 30 day moving average on Thursday, despite this the major equities markets in the USA experienced rises during the New York session. The medium to high impact economic calendar news generally missed the targets, adding to concerns regarding how much room the equity markets have to
Our economic calendar begins to take on a more recognisable shape this coming week as our: FX, equity and commodity markets finally burst back into life, after the Xmas and new year holidays. Whilst there’s a concentration of global PMI readings published by: Markit, Caixan and the USA equivalent the ISM throughout the week, the
As the FX markets reopened on Boxing Day, liquidity and consequently the trading in currencies was significantly reduced, as many institutional traders at major banks and funds remained out of the markets, or on holiday. Many currency pairs experienced whipsawing conditions during the trading sessions, which provided both challenging conditions and opportunities for many retail
Political analysis is often confused with fundamental analysis, however, the two separate phenomena and the skills required to identify and translate the entities into coherent trading decisions, shouldn’t be confused. We should be aware of and fully conversant with the impact medium to high impact news releases have on our trading. The vast majority of
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The majority of experienced FX traders and market analysts will testify that its fundamental economic events that move our markets. They’d also contend that the only time technical analysis effects our trading is if price either: reaches a critical round number (generally referred to as a handle), reaches or breaches a big moving average, such
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Depending on where you are on the learning scale, you’ll have a different view of the various trials and tribulations you’ve experienced (and at times endured) during your FX learning pathway. If you’re close to the start of your journey, having recently discovered FX trading as a potential investment opportunity, or you’re a part time
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There are some obvious benefits in learning how to trade in the globe’s largest market and there’s some subtle benefits, which are far less straightforward to identify. We know that due to the huge levels of turnover, estimated at $5 trillion a day according to BIS, we trade in the most liquid market there is.
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It’s a relatively quiet week for economic calendar news, due to the Xmas holiday period, however, Asian economic news (particularly from Japan), comes thick and fast and will include the latest CPI figure, which has remained extremely low at 0.2% annually, despite the various stimulus measures put in place as part of prime minster Abe’s
Throughout 2017, the promise of Trump’s flagship tax cutting programme, has bolstered the value of equities, as investors have immediately translated the cut as substantial increased profits for major corporates, leading to increased shareholder rewards and dividends. With the programme now only a step away from becoming law, it would appear that the markets have
