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Persistent and Motivated: Obtaining High Productivity in Any Market

It seems difficult to understand the true meaning of “rabbit hole” until you enter an activity such as trading. While it is true that we have close to 100,000,000 articles floating the internet explaining the key differences, or

Dreamy August Starts With A Bang

This week consists of one of the busiest schedules we have faced in a while, and either out of utter genius or sheer idiocy, I scheduled a short vacation several months back starting on Wednesday, so

The Eurozone Continues To Do What It Does Best: Scare The Crap Out Of People

Deja vu. At first, all seemed rosy, with the pro-bail-out party (New Democracy) winning Greece's general election, and then the focus shifted once again on Italy and Spain, with bond yields hitting gasping highs of

An In-Depth Look at Deleveragings

With the FOMC's latest statement on tap (and taking a sharp turn from yesterday's post) I wanted to shoot out a paper that I flipped through with a good amount of interest lately. It comes

IMF Forecasts for 2012 and 2013

A clean graph from Reuters showing IMF projections for 2012 and 2013. Some of the more notable observations from the list: The US was the only country to get an UNCH forecast for 2012 (1.8%,

Forex Market Participants Dynamics and Transaction Methods

This Presentation Explains Everything You Could Want to Know About the FX Market

The foreign exchange market is as complex as it is large and the presentation below provides a very concise overview of playing participants, dynamics and transaction methods across the business. It never seems to shock

Forex EURUSD Prediction Expectation vs Reality

NBT's “Expectation Versus Reality”, Latest Edition

There always seems to be a severe disconnect in terms of expected news events and the manner in which people actually trade it. I see it happen over and over again, and yet I can't

The SNB Is Getting Closer to Using the Bat Signal – EUR/CHF Back in the 1.2000's

It was almost exactly 2 years ago that Philipp Hildebrand, the then newly appointed head of the SNB (that didn't last too long, did it) proclaimed an anti-appreciation policy for the Swiss Franc. Since then,

S&P Expectedly Angers More People Than Expected

Rating agencies undoubtedly have one of the most sadistic jobs in this business: when something is bad, they kick that thing in the face and pummel it to make it horribly worse. Today, the most