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Trade from an informed place. We cover news, political events and market analysis plus product updates.

Gold Price rises to monthly High, but will it last?

Gold has finally seen some respite in its price after it fell to 12-month lows. With slowing growth forecasts being a key reason as to the drop in price. Recessionary fears can sometimes be good for the price as volatility draws money to gold as it is seen as a haven. However, with the USD being so strong and investors pulling their money away from...

October 7, 2022
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GO Markets Announced as Kooyong Classic 2023 Partner

FRITZ, CILIC JOIN ALCARAZ AND DE MINAUR AT CARE A2+ KOOYONG CLASSIC GO MARKETS ANNOUNCED AS NEW PARTNER Top-ranked American Taylor Fritz and former US Open Champion Marin Cilic are the latest headline acts for the Care A2+ Kooyong Classic in 2023, with Australian-owned online brokerage, GO Markets also announced as a new tournament partner. Fr...

October 7, 2022
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Technical Analysis – Retracement for US Dollar

Starting from the weekly timeframe, US Dollar Index has been consistently trending upwards for the last 16 months. Using the 9 exponential moving average (EMA) on the weekly time frame, we can see the US Dollar retracing back to the EMA, bouncing off of it, then continuing with the trend, as seen below: Looking at the structure of the uptren...

October 7, 2022
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US stocks dump and pump as strong data cools Fed-pivot hopes

US equities declined after a record two day winning streak, a volatile and choppy session ultimately ending with the S&P500 down 7.65 points (0.2%) The Nasdaq (NDX100)  saw the biggest swing, from down almost 2.5% at the European close, all the way back up to +0.5% until a very late session sell-off saw it finish down 0.25% The chopp...

October 6, 2022
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EURAUD testing mean of long-term range

The EURAUD buoyed by a weaker Australian Dollar lighter lighter monetary policy from the Reserve Bank of Australia, (RBA) has seen the currency pair move with some momentum in recent days and weeks. The RBA came out in its most recent meeting and raised rates by an unexpectedly low 25 bps vs 50 bps. This helped equities and housing stability but pu...

October 6, 2022
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Risk on continues as equities, Bitcoin and commodities pump, USD dumps

Q4 has continued with a bang in Tuesdays session with US stocks posting their biggest two day gain since April 2020 and the best start to a quarter since 2009 (Best start of Q4 since 2002!) The re-pricing of risk assets comes on the back of the view that Central banks will be a little less aggressive in their rate hiking cycle, with expectations...

October 5, 2022
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Reserve Bank of Australia surprises the market by lifting cash rate by 25 bps

The Reserve Bank of Australia, (RBA) has surprised much of the market by raising the country's cash rate by just 25 basis points. With analysts expecting a more aggressive 50 bps hike, the smaller lift will provide relief to much of the country's housing market and equity market. RBA, Chairman, Phillip Lowe outlined how previous rate rises had alre...

October 4, 2022
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China Yuan’s Falls to Record lows

I have recently written a piece on the weakening of the Great British Pound (GBP) just the other day, as it looks like the dollar seems to be king at present and getting stronger against all other top currencies around the world. Today is the Chinese Yuan in focus, yesterday was the Sterling pound, who’s your money on tomorrow? We will have t...

October 4, 2022
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Stocks begin Q4 with a bang as Fed pivot dreams see yields lower

US stocks started with a Q4 bounce after a dismal Q3 helped by softer PMI data and perhaps extreme oversold technical conditions. Bond  yields drifting  lower as the market priced in a possible and highly speculative Fed pivot also bolstered equities and other risk assets. One big exception was Tesla (TSLA)  cratering over 8% on a big miss on de...

October 4, 2022
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Tesla sets a new record

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) reported its Q3 2022 delivery numbers on Sunday. World’s largest automaker delivered a total of 343,830 cars (up by 42.49% year-over-year) in the third quarter – setting a new quarterly record. The deliveries in Q3 consisted of: 18,672 Model S/X 325,158 Model 3/Y The automaker produced 365,923 vehicles...

October 4, 2022
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Optimising trading strategies by using multiple timeframe analysis

Many trading strategies utilise technical analysis to predict price patterns and for entries and exits. These strategies revolve often begin with the idea of the price having identifiable support, resistance and trendline market structures which indicate where various buying and selling points can be placed for a trade. These support and resistance...

October 3, 2022
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Natural Gas getting ready to test important level

Natural Gas prices have had a volatile year to say the least. After finding multi decade highs on the back of geo-political volatility and record high inflation levels the price has seen an aggressive retracement. With the overall commodities market suffering a big drop as recessionary pressures have taken over and a resilient USD, Natural gas has ...

September 30, 2022
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Stocks tumble again as BoE inspired rally fizzles

US stocks again were heavily pressured, selling off hard into the last day of the month and quarter as Wednesdays rare BoE inspired positive session proved to be a dead cat bounce thus far. Tech led the sell-off after a rare downgrade of Apple (AAPL) from Bank of America added to tech woes with many of the heavyweights underperforming as Microso...

September 30, 2022
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Bank of England, Stuck between a rock and hard place

The UK financial system has been under extreme pressure from rising inflation and recessionary pressures. It culminated in the GBP reaching record lows and a UK government bond crisis that could have almost brought down the system. So why is the Bank of England now buying government bonds after attempting to stem inflation and raise interest rates....

September 29, 2022
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What are Bonds and how do you trade them?

Maturity, Yields, Par Values and Coupon payments. These are words that everyone has heard of but not many have a good understanding of what they mean. In this article all these complicated terms will be explained. Please note that while this information is most relevant for physical bonds, it is still important to understand when dealing with CFD...

September 28, 2022
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