Market Commentaries

Despite various polls and mainstream media sources, predicting massive gains for extreme right wing parties in the European elections, the social democrats, liberals and conservatives, held their ground. The populist movements recorded scant gains, as voter turnout across the continent rose to 51%. The European Parliament will remain under the control of pro European parties. […]

Traders should ensure they understand the phenomenon of risk on risk off. Often referred to as “RORO”, identifying such market condition can help traders to improve their decision making. When investor and market sentiment is high and bullish, investors take risk on. When investor and market sentiment is low and bearish, investors take risk off,

After global equity markets experienced a sell off across the board during Thursday’s trading sessions, Asian and European markets registered modest recoveries by 8:20am U.K. time on Friday, whilst USA equity market futures pointed to a positive open for the New York session. Chinese equity markets closed up; Shanghai Composite by 0.02% and the CSI

One discussion which many experienced and successful, independent, retail FX traders will enjoy having with other traders, involves what they would have done differently, with the benefit of hindsight? What would they have done back in the day, when they first started trading, based on the knowledge they’ve now acquired? The answers are remarkably consistent.

Consumer spending rose in Germany by 1.2% in the first quarter of 2019, German capital investment rose by 1.1%, whilst government spending fell by -0.3% in the same period. The figures painted a healthier backdrop for the German economy, that in Q3 to Q4 threatened to contract into a recession. Overall GDP growth for Q1

It’s often stated that FX markets are random, however, this claim is generally misunderstood. FX markets respond to economic data and calendar releases, they also react to breaking political developments and economic news, not necessarily listed on the economic calendar. This isn’t random behaviour, in fact it’s highly predictable on many levels. For example; if

Japan’s latest import, export and trade balance figures were published in the Sydney-Asian trading session; exports fell by -2.4% year on year up to April, with imports rising by 6.4%, machine orders rose by 3.8% in March. Imports rising in tandem with machine orders, points to Japanese firms gearing up to increase manufacturing and production,

Peruse many of the most popular trading forums and in the sections listed as “trading strategies”, you’ll see thousands of posts, by individual members, who are convinced they’ve discovered a trading edge. Which they’re convinced they can repeatedly use; session after session, day after day, to extract profit from the FX markets. The natural conclusion

After experiencing a relief rally on Monday, based on the Australian general election resulting in no change of government, the Aussie dollar gave back its gains versus its peers, during the Sydney-Asian sessions, after RBA Governor Lowe suggested a rate cut (from the current record low of 1.50%) was likely to be announced, at the

There are several indicators that help FX traders and traders of many other securities, to identify what are referred to as “oversold”, or “overbought” conditions. The most popular indicators for pinpointing the two extremes of market behaviour, are the RSI and the stochastic oscillator. The stochastic indicator is often referred to as “stochastics”, a reference