It is that time of the year when everyone involved in this business looks in the rear vision mirror and attempts to make sense of what happened. And of course to everyone involved everything is so obvious and predictable. What is worse is that they take this data and attempt to make some form of…
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Bloomberg have been busy – click the image below to be taken to the full infographic.
I am doing a Market Wrap for Talking Trading which I will post a link to ASAP. In looking at the current state of markets I came across the following chart from the WSJ highlighting the long decline in the GBP. The sun has well and truly set on the Empire, it just seems as…
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The most interesting thing to happen in markets for sometime was the GBP flash crash that occurred last week. I only caught the tail end of the crash as I saw some of my GBP puts leap ten fold in value and then settle back down. Which was followed by me going WTF? was that…
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I have finally had time to sit down and read this latest missive from BIS. The FX market does seem to be undergoing a little bit of a shift as evidenced by the fall in volumes, the changing role for some currencies and the rise of the renminbi. There are a few interesting take home…
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Source – Bloomberg PS: Watch out of the idiot autoplay video on the site
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Just an interesting little bit of context regarding the pound which seems to be undergoing it usual once a decade mid life crisis. As you can see from the chart below the drop last week is in many instances just an acceleration in an existing long term downtrend.
It has been sometime since we have had any longvetiy in commodity trends. Source – FINVIZ
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