Bitcoin Technical Analysis 4th JulyBy Forexminute – Yes Option | Bitcoin | Jul 4, 2014 6:48AM BSTAs can be seen from the BTC/USD hourly chart above, the price of Bitcoin continues to be in entrapped a narrow trading range of 20 points. The trading range, which has its ends at 638 and 658, has already given 4 significant price reversals […]
Someone once asked me to describe reversion to the mean in as simple terms as possible. My reply was if you know someone who’s normally ‘”mean” and then they are nice to you for a few days, chances are they’ll revert back to being mean. [Likewise, periods of high volatility tend to be followed by periods of lower volatility.] Conversely, […]
File photo of a scientist inspecting fuel cell prototypes. Photograph: Peter Ginter/Getty Images/Science FactionIntelligent Energy, a green power company originally formed by academics from Loughborough University, unveiled plans on Friday to float on the London Stock Exchange, with an expected value of £600m.The fuel cell developer hopes to take advantage of investor interest in new listings to raise at […]
Louis Scott, Founder, Kiema Advisors”News really does matter but it matters in terms of the volatility it creates rather than the alpha that you can harvest.”
London – The idea that news flow can be
systematically traded is becoming widely accepted. And not just
for major news agencies commenting on planned announcements.
Increasingly, social […]
Proof the Stock Market Is Being RiggedBy Bill Bonner, Chairman, Bonner & Partners on June 18, 2014We are still reeling.Yesterday, we reported that central banks are major buyers of stocks.Their policy of suppressing yields on bonds has pushed them to stretch for higher returns in the stock market. A recent report by a central bank research and advisory group called […]
Hello!I’m Andrew Smithers; I studied economics at Cambridge and used to run the fund management business at S G Warburg which became Mercury Asset Management and is now BlackRock.I set up Smithers & Co in 1989 as an economics consultancy. Much of the comments on economics and markets that I read as a fund manager struck me as nonsense and […]
Capital Markets have always been on the forefront of adoption of new technology. Effective technology deployment in this industry has a direct impact on the bottom line of the organizations. Whether it is technology deployment for coming up with low latency applications where the trade is executed in less than a millisecond or an intelligent analytical model which is used […]
In the latest forex market trading review, the return of US traders from their Memorial Day holiday lent support to the dollar, along with stronger than expected headline durable goods orders data. The report showed a 0.8% increase in orders while the core version printed a mere 0.1% uptick. Traders might be positioning ahead of tomorrow’s preliminary GDP release, which […]
Hello!I’m Andrew Smithers; I studied economics at Cambridge and used to run the fund management business at S G Warburg which became Mercury Asset Management and is now BlackRock.I set up Smithers & Co in 1989 as an economics consultancy. Much of the comments on economics and markets that I read as a fund manager struck me as nonsense and […]
The question of the day is relatively straightforward at this time: Will we see a meaningful decline (defined as a loss of -10 percent or more) on the S&P 500 in the near term or not?From the bears’ perspective, the answer is an unequivocal “yes.” Our furry friends cite the ongoing mo-mo meltdown [Social Media (SOCL), Internet (FDN), and Biotech […]
