This week we present an interview with three seasoned professional traders. A series of questions were put to the pros in an effort to uncover what exactly they did to make it as a professional trader. What markets do you …
North Korea has been ruled by the Kim family since it was founded after World War II. Succession has happened only twice, with the sitting leader anointing one of his sons to be the next in charge after his death. But …
When Bitcoin broke into public consciousness in 2013, it couldn’t have been sexier: a digital currency being used to buy everything from drugs to cupcakes. Bitcoin’s wild price ride — soaring up in late 2017 only to fall steadily back down this year …
Markets go up and down; the amount they move is their volatility. In normal times, traders like a dose of volatility, and betting on its levels has become a market of its own. But these are not normal times, and …
As the coronavirus outbreak reached pandemic status, people began panic buying staples: rice, pasta, noodles — and the U.S. dollar. The demand was so intense that the U.S. Federal Reserve stepped in to help foreign central banks and others get …
Long before the U.S. tightened its borders to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, as many countries did, President Donald Trump set about reshaping America’s immigration system with a nationalist and isolationist bent. Promises to crack down on illegal immigration and …
Der 20. April 2020 wird in die Geschichte des Ölmarktes als der Tag eingehen, an dem der US-Referenzpreis für Rohöl zum ersten Mal unter null Dollar gefallen ist. Die Terminkontrakte für ein Barrel der Sorte West Texas Intermediate (WTI) …
European and U.S. stock futures are under pressure after three days of strong performance in the cash market. A quarter-end portfolio rebalancing lift to equities and a pricing in of a short duration of economic weakness on stimulus measures appear …
The dollar rose for a ninth straight day and the yen had its worst week in three years amid dire warnings about the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic that sent U.S. stocks to a three-year low. Treasuries advanced, with …
In the initial days of the Covid-19 outbreak, there was a prominent belief among investors that the one silver lining to the dark cloud would be that policymakers around the world would adopt a “we are all in this together” …
Until last week, a strange thing about the coronavirus was how little impact it had on global markets. After a –13% drop in the S&P 500, and a plunge in the US 10y treasury yield from 1.46% to 1.13%, complacency …
Jeder gestandene Trader war schon mal in der Situation, die gar nicht so ohne oder dessen Resultat ein nicht ganz so sanfter Aufschlag am Boden der Tatsachen war. Es gibt wahrscheinlich keinen Trader, der entweder noch nie mit dem Thema …