Stocks are trending higher and the dollar is doing the same. That’s not something we’ve seen much of over the years. We can see from the chart below comparing the S&P 500 to the USD Index how unusual it is for the two to move in the same direction. No doubt the recent positive correlation has thrown a number of algos for a loop.
Of course the whole risk-on, risk-off pattern of the markets holding forth during long periods since the Financial Crisis played a major part in defining a negative correlation between stocks and the US dollar. Traders and …Continue Reading
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The whole area of alternative investments is a major talking point in both academia and the industry these days. Not that this is something new, of course. There has always been some kind of alternative investing going on. For many years it was the commodity market which was the main focus, often through Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) – though that is rather a catch-all category for what today would just as likely be considered hedge funds as in many cases similar trading strategies are employed. Today alternative investing has expanded to include a great many different areas of investing, …Continue Reading
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Equity prices have vaulted to within touching distance of all-time highs, and the upturn in investors’ fortunes has pushed valuation ratios to levels that have preceded protracted periods of poor stock market performance in the past. The widespread belief that stock market returns mean revert over long horizons means that it could well be possible to use the information contained in high valuation ratios to time the market, and capture the favorable combination of lower risk and higher returns.
An interesting paper authored by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of the London Business School, and recently published in …Continue Reading
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FXstreet.com is organizing a special webinar together with Currensee Trade Leader Taylor Growth, tomorrow Thursday at 15 GMT / 10 am EST!
In this webinar Tom Dawson and Josh Colton from Taylor Growth will discuss how a high degree of leverage can work against you as well as for you. Josh and Tom will discuss the risk/reward tradeoff, the importance of establishing your investment objectives and balancing your objectives with your appetite for risk.
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A special limited-time webinar promotion will be offered to all attendees of this webinar by Liquid Markets!
Details regarding this promotion will be announced at the …Continue Reading
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A Porter Cluster is not just a bunch of beers, it’s when in industry or a kind of business gains traction in a particular place and seemingly competitive businesses thrive side-by-side due to the concentration of talent, investment capital, customers, and just the sheer entrepreneurial buzz of all that innovation in one place. It’s pretty exciting, and even more exciting, the Boston Business Journal just declared a cluster for alternative investing right here in Boston, and Currensee is right in the middle of it.
In the February 22-28 edition of the Boston Business Journal, Kyle Alspach writes,
A number of Boston-based …Continue Reading
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The big news of the weekend, not just in the markets, was the Moody’s downgrade of the UK credit rating. As some readers will know, I currently live in England. The news coverage here – national, not just business – has been all over it. Naturally, it has become a political discussion at least as much as a financial markets one. We saw much the same when the US went through this a while back.
Of course the markets have anticipated this sort of thing for some time now. As the chart below shows, GBP/USD has been steadily losing ground …Continue Reading
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If you are one of those forex traders who has been moaning about the lack of volatility in exchange rates for the last while now, you may not have to wait long for better days. Conversely, if you have been quite happy and successful in trading the relatively quiet markets of the last few months (likely based on range-oriented strategies), now may be the time to start preparing for more challenging days to come. I think we’re just about due for a shift in the markets.
Why do I say that? Give this weekly chart of the USD Index a …Continue Reading
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Posted by Charlie Fell in Forex, tags: alternative investing, alternative investment, Alternative Investment Guide, asset allocation, autotrading, call, commodities, forex alternative investing, Forex investing, Forex Managed Accounts, futures, institutional investments, investment management, managed accounts, managed funds, option, pooled accounts, premium, social investing, social trading
The ‘dash for trash’ is on, as the near-record low yields available on safe assets has prompted investment professionals to move further out the risk spectrum in a desperate bid to earn nominal returns that satisfy client needs. Cautious optimism persists among buy-side commentators, but actions speak louder than words, and market movements suggests investors are behaving quite differently than their rhetoric, as robust demand continues to outstrip supply and push the yields on lesser-quality bonds ever lower. The resulting valuations confirm that a substantial part of the market for fixed income securities has entered the speculative phase of …Continue Reading
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Each quarter the US forex brokers who fall under the regulation of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) – which is most of them – report profitability figures (see the most recent tallies posted by Forex Magnates here). This has been going on since 2010, with reported figures back to 2009. On average, these reports have shown that just about 30% of active accounts (those doing at least 1 trade) make money in any given quarter. The CFTC put this reporting requirement in to provide a bit of transparency as to the reality of performance among traders, but in …Continue Reading
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Posted by Charlie Fell in Forex, tags: alternative investing, alternative investment, Alternative Investment Guide, asset allocation, autotrading, call, commodities, forex alternative investing, Forex investing, Forex Managed Accounts, futures, institutional investments, investment management, managed accounts, managed funds, option, pooled accounts, premium, social investing, social trading
Japanese asset prices have jumped onto investors’ radar screens of late; the return of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to power late last year has sparked hopes that the new leadership might match their pre-election rhetoric with actions that help to bring years of economic stagnation to an end.
The Diet was dissolved last November, and the LDP, under Shinzo Abe, secured a landslide election victory four weeks later, as voters expressed their disillusionment with the Democratic Party of Japan and backed the LDP’s promises to wage a determined battle against deflation through aggressive monetary easing, alongside flexible fiscal …Continue Reading
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