Between the lines

To many of us it still feels like yesterday; the 2008 banking collapse, that apparently caused the downfall of the global banking system, had its anniversary on Monday. It started with Lehman Brothers, causing a contagion, eventually bringing down other investment banks with it, whilst sending Western Hemisphere economies into a tailspin of immediate decline. […]

We’re ‘big’ on fundamentals at FXCC. When we offer advice and commentary on trading FX, commodities and indices, we know that fundamentals have a massive impact on the direction of the markets. Naturally we pay attention to the high impact news events and key policy decisions made by central banks and governments. Readers may have

There’s a fairly common affliction that affects many traders and the problem tends to affect inexperienced traders the most; it’s the fear of actually pulling the trigger on a potential trade when your set up occurs… Although the affliction mostly affects inexperienced traders there are times when successful traders can also experience the fear. In

Many of us have read countless trading articles stating how you can; “make it in trading if you try hard enough, never give up, have a winner’s attitude”, which is why we deliberately avoid writing ‘you can dream the dream’ style articles. The longer you’re in this business you realise there’s several key attributes that

There are times when the USA economy surrenders up data that appears completely at odds with (and at the end of) its own ‘twilight-zone’ spectrum. We learned on Monday that USA credit had risen by an annual rate of 4.4%, the bulk of the rise due to an increase in the uptake of student debt

The Bank for International Settlements published its latest findings regarding the growth of foreign exchange trading on Thursday. FX swaps were the most actively traded instruments in April 2013, at $2.2 trillion per day, followed by spot trading at $2.0 trillion. It’s worth a closer look at the BIS report in order to analyze just

Once a year the WEF publish their competitiveness league table. Whilst it doesn’t rank as a high (or even low) impact news event it’s an interesting table, particularly when you take on board the comments, which shine a critical light into the ailments certain economies may  be suffering from…  The World Economic Forum was first

What Investors Can Learn About Football Transfers And Why It’s Hard To Feel Sorry For Hedge Funds Who’ve Dropped The Ball On Nokia On Monday evening there was an incredible rush in the European football transfer market. Some of us fans were left crestfallen as our only world class player left our boyhood club for

Danske Bank ‘Calls Off’ European Debt Crisis Due To Positive PMIs Whilst Elsewhere Caution Is Urged… The extremely healthy manufacturing PMIs, published by Markit Economics on the morning of Monday September 2nd, provided a massive boost to European indices once the news eventually reached investors. Other than France every European country measured by Markit registered

Why FX Intervention Never Works And Those End Of Week Spikes…  There were two fascinating articles that caught our eye over the last 24 hours that weren’t given as much publication in the mainstream financial press as they deserved. One concerned the currency spikes many of us observed every Friday at 4pm London time each