Any time a specific sector experiences a large rally or sell-off within a matter of weeks, it’s interesting to see how commodity trading advisor’s respond to the moves. In June 2015, there was a big rally in grain markets (corn, soybeans, and wheat) caused by large amounts of rainfall throughout…
Lately there has been much ado about “what’s going on” with the markets. Of course there were many concerns regarding the situation in Greece, the Chinese Stock Market, and the ongoing FOMC rate paradox. A media led barrage of news that seems to move the markets sharply in either direction,…
“Human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their constitutional ignorance of the misuse.” — Robert Wright, The Moral Animal Whether you view Greece’s / Europe’s actions and failures through a moral or political lens, the…
When our clients see Eurodollars futures being traded in their CTA accounts, they sometimes think that it is the Euro/USD currency pair. Eurodollars actually have nothing to do with Europe’s currency. Eurodollars are interest bearing bank deposits denominated in US Dollars and held at banks outside of the United States.…