Diverging central bank moves, top-tier data releases, and renewed geopolitical tensions kept volatility elevated across FX markets.
Global Market Weekly Recap: March 17 – 21, 2025
Market sentiment swung like a seesaw throughout the week, as investors worked around easing tensions between Russia and Ukraine, worsening Middle East conflict, and A BUNCH of central bank events. Safe-haven…
Should You REALLY Trade the News?
With an extra busy trading weeks filled with central bank decisions and top-tier economic data releases, should you really be attempting to trade all these potential market movers? Contrary to the “always…
Daily Broad Market Recap – March 20, 2025
It was another messy day in the financial markets, as asset classes took cues from their own individual catalysts. Gold struck a fresh record high while global uncertainties lingered while crude oil…
Daily Broad Market Recap – March 19, 2025
The Fed’s latest decision sent shockwaves through markets, fueling a stock rally and major moves across currencies and commodities. The dollar started strong but lost steam after Powell’s remarks, bitcoin soared past…
FOMC Kept Rates Steady as Expected, “Quantitative Tightening” Scaled Down
The Federal Reserve maintained its benchmark interest rate at 4.25%-4.5% during its March meeting, keeping policy unchanged for the fourth consecutive month while signaling increased economic uncertainty. The central bank also announced…
Australian Employment Fell in February, Raising RBA Rate Cut Odds
Australia’s labor market took a hit in February, with employment falling by 52,800. That’s worse than the expected 30,000 job gain! This also marked a sharp reversal from January’s revised increase of…
Chart Art: NZD/JPY Reversal Pullback Levels
Missed the longer-term trend line break on NZD/JPY? There could still be chance to catch a quick retest if you’re counting on the reversal to gain traction. Check out this area of…
Trade Case Study: Closed AUD/CAD Shorts
Our AUD/CAD short position has been closed ahead of today’s FOMC Monetary Policy statement, after already capturing a large portion of the anticipated downside move while eliminating exposure to potential volatility from…
5 Reasons You Haven’t Started Trading Forex (And Why They Don’t Hold Up)
If you’ve only just heard about forex trading or have been planning to become a currency trader for months but still haven’t gotten around to it, here are 5 excuses that you…