I don't think even impeachment of Trump would do it, but new hawkish FED chairman, or new ECB president with German origin just might. When smart money becomes convinced era of cheap money is over, they will short stocks like crazy as there are no ...

What has happened to volatility

As long as Asset purchase programs of CBs are in the game and interest rates are hovering around zero, it's the only logical short term trading strategy to short any spike of volatility (or buy in SP500 correction). That's why we need some big scary ...

What has happened to volatility

Summer months are coming but VIX in already at 25 years lows. We can expect even less volatility statistically. What a bummer. Any kind of financial bubble burst soon, please.

What has happened to volatility

Big central banks never run out of money. They print it out of thin air. It would be good to know how will they react, when shit hits the fan again. If they will bail out everyone with printing more money, it might be prudent to enter on buyers side ...

What has happened to volatility

Exactly my point. But this has to stop at some point in time. Big central bank assets have jumped to 21 trillion $ in just 5 years. Basically, big central banks are the market nowdays. World GDP is around 75 trillion $, so CBs "own" almost one third ...

What has happened to volatility

Yes, VIX under 10 again I've read some comments that volatility will not rise until FED, ECB and BOJ stop bond-buying programs and normalize interest rates, which will probably not happen anytime soon. I guess no one wants to go ...

What has happened to volatility

Why so grim face? Not all retail brokers are scammers and not all investment banks offer great trading conditions. I have traded on Deutsche Bank's Autobahn and Barclays BARX FX platform and didn't like then at all. Their client support servise is ...

Should I quit trading forex?

HFT will probably get regulated/banned, it's only a matter of time, like with Libor. Just wait for the next big market crash. You can't have algos deciding currency prices on grand scale, it kills the idea of fair fiat money price. I know HFT ...

What has happened to volatility

"ECB Could Start Mid-Year to Signal Policy Shift" "Evans: Inflation pressures are still under-running Fed goal" What else could go wrong for EUR bears today? It looks like someone is trying very hard to stop closing the gap. Draghi wll say again ...

EURUSD

It's not that low volatility makes market untradable, it's just that it's harder to predict what market will do. You can see completed H&S, double top, wedge etc, and often see no follow through. I'm a swing trader, trading price patterns and ...

What has happened to volatility

Why do people still think, they can just find some holly grail EA, that will make them rich quickly or have very little to no knowledge about financial markets, take on insane risk exposures and then blame their brokers/banks, when they get a margin ...

Should I quit trading forex?

Velocity of money in circulation is becoming a real problem. M2 money stock is at its lowest level since the data was first recorded in 1959. No amount of QE can help with inflation, if money is exchanging hands slower and slower. Maybe this is also ...

What has happened to volatility

GBP/JPY at previous high (breakout or correction)

Trend Trading with Fibonacci & RSI

VIX at all time low after high profile risk event... Just incredible and far, far, far from normal. Lets hope it's the calm before the storm:

What has happened to volatility

USD/JPY bullish flag breakout on daily chart

Trend Trading with Fibonacci & RSI

GBP/USD short term correction in play This is a typical counter trend trade, which I don't trade often as it doesn't have very high win potential when considering decent risk : reward ratio. But when I see double price-RSI divergence in OS or OB ...

Trend Trading with Fibonacci & RSI

Hi marcmarc, very nice interpretation of trading. I'll use it next time, when convincing my friend that speculating is not the same as gambling I have a colleague, otherwise very intelligent person, who tries to convince me, that my ...

Do you believe brokers hunt your stoploss

"My" rule of thumb, when placing stop loss under support or over resistance, is measuring previous spike and add spreads to it plus a few pips of buffer space. This is not my idea. I was thought this technic by bank's trading instructor and trader ...

Do you believe brokers hunt your stoploss