And there it is: for the first time since the financial crisis, the emini S&P future has hit the limit down band of -5%, something it failed to do even during the May 2010 flash crash.This means that no more trade are allowed below the limit down level until the market
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One of my investment principles is:Identify the paradigm you’re in, examine if and how it is unsustainable, and visualize how the paradigm shift will transpire when that which is unsustainable stops.Over my roughly 50 years of being a global macro investor, I have observed there to be relatively long of
SummaryI was fortunate enough to be raised in a middle-class family by parents who took good care of me, to go to good public schools, and to come into a job market that offered me equal opportunity. I was raised with the belief that having equal opportunity to have basic care,
One of the common questions voiced was: How can you tell when a trader is passionate about trading vs. addicted to it?The first step in dealing with any addictive pattern is identifying it–and identifying it as a problem. Here are a few questions that you might ask yourself:* Have there
How far can interest rates fall?Currently, many sovereign rates sit in negative territory, and, as Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld notes, there is an unprecedented $13 trillion in negative-yielding debt. This new interest rate climate has many observers wondering where the bottom truly lies.Today’s graphic from Paul Schmelzing, visiting scholar at the Bank of England (BOE),
I continue to believe that this is one of the most neglected topics in the trading literature. While it is common to talk of traders who “lack discipline”, rarely is there acknowledgement that such out of control behaviour is often indicative of addictive behaviour.Take the trader who loses money in