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The last 24 hours have seen quiet trading with very low volume as we head into the Christmas break. The US Dollar remains strong and is unchanged against the Euro at 1.2230 but has risen three quarters of a Yen to 12030. US stock markets rose for the fourth...
Futures Trading Education
A somewhat quieter end to the last week after the fireworks of the previous two weeks and that theme is continuing this morning with most traders now on a two week holiday until January 5 when normal markets will return. The US Dollar has continued to strengthen...
Futures Trading Education
Risk appetite has continued to improve with a promise from the Fed to be ‘patient’ in normalising interest rates thus sending equities through the roof, with the Dow now up over 700 points in two days. There still seems to some confusion about what the Fed...
Futures Trading Education
Last night the Fed tried to have its cake and eat it and in the process left markets slightly confused. Markets have being whipsawing since the release of the Statement with the Euro initially rising against the Dollar before getting slammed late on and that theme has...
Futures Trading Education
The last 24 hours has produced an escalation in volatility with the big surprise being that the European Equity markets closed higher despite the ongoing negative developments in Russia. The mood was still downbeat early yesterday morning when the Russian Central Bank...
Futures Trading Education
Hard to know where to start this morning with extremely whippy and severe movements across nearly all asset classes in the past 24 hours. Oil, which opened on a very positive note by being up 3%, reversed course during the day to close down anther 4%. The fall in Oil...
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