ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on April 20, 2015. Click here to read the entire piece.) In my last post on the Canadian dollar (FXC), I claimed that it was time to start buying Canada while at the same time cautioning about an over-extension in the currency … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on April 16, 2015. Click here to read the entire piece.) In the wake of the Bank of Canada’s latest announcement of monetary policy, the Canadian dollar (FXC) finally broke through an important line against the U.S. dollar. It is a line … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on Feb 8, 2015. Click here to read the entire piece.) Canada has produced several strong economic reports over the past several months. For example, even with a 8.8% month-over-month drop in employment in the natural resources sector, January produced a net … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on Feb 2, 2015. Click here to read the entire piece.) It is never good to see a negative print on a GDP growth number. It is even worse when it is below market “expectations.” When Statistics Canada reported a GDP decline … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on Jan 14, 2015. Click here to read the entire piece.) “The recent movements in oil prices have been dramatic, but they are not random. Once we sort through the different economic forces at play, we see that underlying the recent drop … Read more