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EUR - Can we trend lower now ? 20 Sep 2011 | 01:14 am
The spike high on EURUSD immediately after the SNB announced a minimum rate of 1.20 for EURCHF on Sept 6th was not retested. Instead the market fell away very quickly, consolidated the day a...
SNB Peg.... 7 Sep 2011 | 06:19 am
1) If one takes as the starting point the recent absolute 1.01 low on EUR/CHF, the SNB has already had a greater impact on Swiss franc in recent weeks than it did during the entire 1978/79 episode of ...
FOMC... 3 Nov 2010 | 10:10 pm
Book a lunch, round of golf, go shopping, whatever you like but be at your desk at 1815GMT for the main event - probably the most talked about FOMC ever. The extent of QEII and whether there is talk o...
EUR is breaking ? 29 Sep 2010 | 07:01 am
We have finally cracked the 50% Fibbo of our recent move(1.5144-1.1876) that comes in at 1.3510 and have seen a decent follow through so far. As I noted last week, the DXY broke down through its 200w ...
FX Vol & the Worldcup, research from Nomura 15 Jun 2010 | 08:58 pm
Source: Nomura Global FX Research Clearing up FX volatility in the World Cup We examine how FX volatility is impacted by the World Cup tournament We examine the relationship between FX volatility a...
Hammers & Hanging Men... 26 May 2010 | 08:39 pm
Hammers, hanging men, and dojis are forming in various chart patterns according to technical analysts colleagues. I can’t elaborate in more detail on what these ‘’funny names’’ technical indicators me...
AUTCH-Markets looking ugly.... 7 May 2010 | 06:20 am
A quick look across markets does not paint a pretty picture: - FX flows this afternoon: We have seen only USD buyers here with the flow concentrated in GBP, AUD, CAD, BRL. Other flows are all risk re...
EURUSD…have we reached the point where the switch flips? 29 Apr 2010 | 07:56 am
• As the Eurozone crisis has moved to a new level this week with bond spreads blowing out on a wider basis than just Greece the one thing that is very notable is that EURUSD is at 1.3140. Why is that ...
Gold & JPY 7 Oct 2009 | 11:38 pm
Please have a look at the following gold/jpy chart (price of gold measured in yen and not in dollars): It is striking to see that gold (despite being in the news headlines) has not moved anywhere rea...
It is Hard to be a contrarian.... 24 Aug 2009 | 08:29 pm
1) It is hard to be a contrarian. It is hard because going against the main stream is already quite a difficult thing. There are common wisdoms and a contrarian just does not buy them. There is a tren...
