Currency futures fell on Friday as the dollar rose on safe-haven inflows after a cyber outage. At the same time, Fed rate-cut optimism fell, and markets focused on US economic resilience instead. A cyber outage on Friday spooked investors and had them rushing for safety in the dollar. Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike made a software update Read More…
Interest futures fell on Thursday as investors took profits after the recent rally on a September Fed rate cut. The US unemployment claims data shows that more people are becoming unemployed, which will likely force the Fed to reduce interest rates in September. Interest futures have been bullish since last week as investors cheered the Read More…
Economic Data Recent positive data from the Eurozone, such as higher-than-expected GDP growth and industrial production, have supported the Euro but this is not very evident on the chart because at the same time the Dollar has many factors contributing to its strength too. Recent US inflation data showing a cooling trend has led to Read More…
Introduction What if you are long stocks and the price only went up? What if the RSI was overbought ALL THE TIME? Would you think its time for a retracement? No, you wouldn’t because euphoria is striking, and that is dangerous. It is even difficult to do technical analysis because the price only goes up Read More…
Equities rose on Monday as investors priced in a higher likelihood of a Trump win after the attempted murder. At the same time, optimism about rate cuts in the US after Powell’s dovish comments remained. On Saturday, an assassination attempt against Trump raised the chances that he would win the November election. A Trump win Read More…
Recap We covered the underperformance in RTY futures a few weeks ago and said that we were getting close to the time that RTY needs to catch up to the greater market. It looks like we are finally at that time now and RTY is on its way up. You can read the previous analysis Read More…
