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FX markets about to get interesting again!

August 13, 2019 / / No Comments

I haven’t been focusing on currency markets much in the past year or so and there’s a good reason for it, volatility. Rolling 30 day standard deviation is sitting at 15 years lows, in some pairs even lower. This is very well reflected by charts where we can see multi-year consolidations or sideways trends, however you want to put it. I don’t know about you, but I like trending markets, and most currency pairs have not been trending in years.

It feels, however, times are about to change. Volatility could increase soon thus making FX markets interesting again and when volatility does increase everyone will go on about currency wars or some other thing to justify their narrative.

Let me start with showing you a volatility chart of individual pairs going back 15 years and continue with an overview of some majors.

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Major inflection point: recession or melt up?

August 5, 2019 / / No Comments

So many guys have been pounding the table with doom and gloom calls for so long but they were dead wrong. When the market finally turns down they’ll likely pat themselves on the back and say they weren’t wrong, just early. As PLB rightfully says if you get direction or timing wrong, the trade is wrong. This is one of the most important aspects of trading not understood by most.

The market has been trading in a range for the past 18 months where SPX has been between 2,550 and 2,950 with a short trip to 2,350 last winter. All this time we’ve been hearing bad news about trade wars, tariffs, Brexit, growth slowdown, earnings recession etc. Stocks have been creeping higher despite all of this and are sitting just below all time highs. If you’ve been trading the non price related data you’ve been most likely losing money and are eager to short this bad boy yet again, right?

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