Ashraf Laidi

Just as market sentiment began improving and the US dollar index showed its first 3-day losing run since March, selling resumed across the board. Tuesday's solid US retail sales gave Powell the...

Just as market sentiment began improving and the US dollar index showed its first 3-day losing run since March, selling resumes across the board. Yesterday’s solid US retail sales gave Powell the...

Traders reap the value of intermarket technical/quantitative analysis in capturing junctures, where various asset classes have reached potential inflection points. Such levels can be...

Readers of this column went from vaccine "experts" to Russia connoisseurs and yield curve whizes, while picking up a few nuggets about bear market corrections. So let's move to the more controversial...

Just as traders learn to forget the buy-the-dip habit and embrace selling-the-bounce instincts, in comes Friday's attempt to reverse indices into the green. A higher S&P 500 close last week would have...

What's the point of using fancy indicator ratios such as the VVIX/VIX ratio, when you can simply use the VIX, or the S&P 500 itself? You know that I'm a fan of using the VVIX/VIX ratio in helping...

What's the point of using fancy indicators ratios such as the VVIX/VIX ratio, when you can simply use the VIX, or the S&P 500 itself? You know that I'm a fan of using the VVIX/VIX ratio in helping me...

Since the Fed is raising interest rates, and China is cutting rates, so the Chinese yuan has to drop. In fact, CNY is down by more than 2% this week, posting its biggest weekly drop since that fateful...

The USD/CNY is down by more than 2% this week, posting its biggest weekly drop since that fateful week of late August 2015. Back then, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) devalued its currency by 2%,...

French presidential elections are due this month, which means fresh selling of French government bonds on the usual fear of a far-right candidate closing ground behind the pro-European centrist...