Market Overview

Over the last 30-years, I have endeavored to learn from my own mistakes and, trust me, I have paid plenty of “stupid-tax” along the way. However, it is only from making mistakes, that we...

EUR/USD: Fed ties further rate hikes to economic rebound Macroeconomic overview: U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers agreed they should hold off on raising interest rates until they see evidence that a...

by Pinchas CohenThe Big News S&P 500 and South Korean KOSPI achieve record high VIX returning to historic lows After credit cut, Chinese financial shares lead Asian rally, but on suspiciously low...

Chinese financial shares gave global stocks a boost. Meanwhile, the dollar weakened and oil is hanging onto gains ahead of OPEC’s meeting in Vienna today.OilCrude oil has enjoyed a rally thanks...

One of our clients from eToro Japan is on a trip to Japan and has just sent us this spectacular picture... Almost made my eyes water. This is one of the largest retail electronic stores in Japan and...

Cable bounced back from 1.3015, as the UK revised its 1Q growth estimate a touch lower than expected. According to the second GDP estimate, the British economy may have expanded by 0.2%...

The focus overnight has been on the Federal Reserve’s minutes, with moves in oil, bulk commodities and Bitcoin also getting a good focus.Bitcoin is trading like a small cap miner that the market...

EUR/JPY Today’s support: - 125.05, 124.73 and 124.42 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 123.99, where correction also may be. Then follows 123.78. Break of the latter would...

FX Quant Strategy provides a quantitative overview of the currency market, including several valuation tools and monitors, focusing on the FX options market.This week we recommend one FX option trade:...

Fed hints that 2nd half of 2017 likely to be quieter than the firstThe minutes of the latest Federal Reserve meeting were enough to send the dollar down to the weakest levels since November overnight...

The U.S. dollar got a boost after the presidential election as markets were encouraged by prospects of lower taxes, fiscal stimulus and deregulation that would accelerate growth of the American...

EUR/USD U.S. central bank kept its benchmark rate unchanged, highlighting a slowdown in economic activity (more proof that weakness in the first-quarter was temporary is needed for future rate...

DOW + 74 = 21,012SPX + 5 = 2404 (record)NAS + 24 = 6163RUT + 1 = 138210-year – .02 = 2.26%OIL – .15 = 51.32GOLD + 7.90 = 1259.60BITCOIN + 4% = 2537.16ETHEREUM + 1.83% = 185.00After 5...

U.S. stocks continued to trend higher following the afternoon release of the minutes from the Fed's last meeting, which made reference to balance sheet normalization and after showing some early...