The Return of Macro
The ‘risk-on’ trade is back in vogue, as less bad economic data alongside investors’ blind faith in central bankers’ ability to implement the necessary policies to prevent unfavourable outcomes, has...
View ArticleWhy isn’t the euro weaker?
That’s the question I see popping up frequently of late. The argument is a fundamental one focused primarily on the debt crisis going on in Europe at the moment and the seeming lack of ability of...
View ArticleBlind Faith in Fed Misplaced
US stock prices have been unusually buoyant through the lazy-days of summer, and have jumped almost ten per cent since the end of May, to within just two per cent of the levels that prevailed...
View ArticleDow Theory Urges Caution
Labour Day has come and gone, which means the US summer season is officially over. Wall Street brokers have made their way back from the Hamptons, and returned to their desks to prepare for the final...
View ArticleChanging Correlations Demands a Different Dimension of Diversification
Modern Portfolio Theory remains a major part of many investment portfolio allocation processes. Basically, the idea of MPT is that one can combine a collection of securities into a portfolio which...
View ArticleThe World Economy is Running Out of Growth Engines
The world’s major stock price averages have registered robust double-digit gains, since early-summer, to within touching distance of multi-year highs, a somewhat puzzling development given that...
View ArticleCurrensee Responds to CTA and Money Manager Need for PAMM Alternative with...
On September 26, Currensee announced the launch of their newest Forex investment product, the Intelligent Multiple Account Manager (IMAM). This product came in response to recent regulations on PAMM...
View ArticleTurning Japanese
It is almost four years since central banks in the Western world first adopted near-zero interest-rate policies – alongside the implementation of substantial quantitative easing measures – intended to...
View ArticleWhat the Crash of ’87 made clear to investors (or at least should have)
In October of 1987 I was only 17, but already very interested in trading and the markets. As a result, when the Crash happened I was very interested, and impacted. I may not have yet had my own trading...
View ArticleSlow Markets Post Hurricane Sandy
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 marked the first time since 1888 that inclement weather conditions caused an NYSE shutdown for two consecutive days. Curious speculators wasted no time in coming up with a...
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