Market Commentaries

Your FX trading will move through natural stages, as you experience a form of trading evolution, during your early months and years. Upon first discovering the retail trading industry, you’ll trade manually, whilst you familiarise yourself with the complexity of all that’s involved. Eventually and perhaps inevitably, your thoughts will turn to the potential benefits […]

Despite the USA applying 25% tariffs on $200b of Chinese imports from Friday May 14th, with China responding by attaching tariffs of up to 25% on $65b of USA goods, analysts and political commentators are hopeful that at June’s G20 meeting, Trump and Chinese leader Xi could reach a consensus and compromise. Analysts remain confident

Identifying what are market trends is a highly subjective issue and discussion point, amongst the trading community. Although the definition of what a trend actually is will vary, depending on who you correspond with, most experienced traders will testify that trends should be measured over weeks and perhaps months, not individual trading sessions, or days.

The Aussie dollar fell versus its peers during the Sydney-Asian session, after the Trump administration ratcheted up the trade war rhetoric versus China and Chinese officials stood firm, suggesting they’d offered enough concessions to the USA, but weren’t prepared to shift further. President Trump took to social media over the weekend to reconfirm the USA

It’s a natural tendency to be impatient, when you first discover forex trading. You’re in an enthusiastic rush to take on board all the information, whilst your inquisitive nature will encourage you to roll your sleeves up and experiment with many concepts, that are both unique and new to you. Nothing can prepare you for

Despite the technical application of up to 25% tariffs on Chinese imports into USA ports, from midnight USA time, on Friday May 10th, Chinese equity markets rose during the Asian trading session. As to whether the rise is a moderate relief rally now the threats have become reality, or Asian market investors expect a resolution

During the early months and years of your trading journey and evolution, as you’re experimenting and exploring the full range of trading opportunities, you’ll commit many of the trading mistakes, all experienced and successful traders will testify to. You’ll trade from an undercapitalised account, apply too much leverage, receive margin calls, overtrade, revenge trade and

The latest U.K. GDP growth figures will be published at 9:30am U.K. time on Friday May 10th. Reuters are forecasting that the (month on month) growth figure for March, will come in at 0.00%, falling from 0.2%. The first quarter growth figure for 2019 is forecast to come in at 0.5%, the cumulative effect of

China’s equity market indices, continued the recent sell off, after President Trump issued a statement at a political rally in American during the evening. He stated that China broke off negotiations and effectively broke the conditions of the agreement, which had been brokered over recent months. He reiterated the threat issued earlier in the week;