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On Tuesday, the American market finished the trading session with a small decrease. This week is rather quiet from the point of the publication of macroeconomic statistical data, so the participants...
The Beat Goes On, Or Does It?As the indices make new highs, interest rates have turned and are once again beginning to creep up. It certainly appears to be a strong indication that interest rates have...
I’m in over my head with Eugene A. Durenard’s Professional Automated Trading: Theory and Practice (Wiley, 2013), so consider this post more of a notice than a review. Durenard describes...
U.S. markets tracked lower overnight coming off record highs. With the lack of data, this was profit taking but in Asia, markets fell thanks to a disappointing statement from China’s Third...
Currencies The euro (EUR) managed to gain a small part of previous week’s losses, against the US dollar (USD). The single currency gained more than 140 pips within two days and is now trading...
Dollar was mildly soft in quiet trading overnight after comments from Fed officials. Atlanta Fed President Lockhart, a voter next year, did not rule out that a tapering could begin in as soon as...
Is there such thing as too little inflation? To listen to some economists the answer is an emphatic “no!” Fed chief Ben Bernanke certainly doesn’t believe in the concept of low...
Analog Comfort - Currencies mostly consolidating declines against the buck into Wednesday, while US equities starting to show signs of potential topping yet again. Right now, we can't get overly...
Dollar Fully Retraces ‘No Taper’ September Plunge The Dow Jones FXCM Dollar Index closed above 10,600 for the first time since September 17 this past session. That means that the greenback...
A quantitative run through of the Swedish fixed income market, starting with the Riksbank and money markets before moving on to government and mortgage bonds.To Read the Entire Report Please Click on...
NOK/SEK Supported By Relative YieldsOn the back of today’s inflation shock (not least for the Riksbank) we have revised our call on the Riksbank and now expect a 25bp rate cut in December....
Receive RIBA March 14 and/or 6 Month STINA Steepen 5s10s Do carry trades in covered bonds, hedge with BEI spread Receive SEK 5Y versus EUR In our latest weekly (Reading The Markets – Sweden),...
The Chicago Fed's National Activity Index, which I reported on yesterday, is based on 85 economic indicators drawn from four broad categories of data:Production and Income Employment, Unemployment and...
CurrenciesEUR/USD – The pair continues to trade under the 1.34 level and has remained within a 1% trading range since the opening of trading on Sunday evening. Bank Holidays in France and the US...
Bitcoins have been in the news a good deal lately, and they get there in ways that suggest they are poised to impact the world of alpha and its pursuers. So it’s good to have a primer: a brief...