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Do you ever ‘force’ motivation on yourself?
Guest PandaFace posted a question in IG Trading Support - Dealing Questions,
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JamesIG,Is Gold heading down? - EMEA Brief 08 Jan
Guest IG-Andi posted a blog entry in Market News,
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Guest,Wall Street’s follow-through - APAC brief 8 Jan
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
Markets placated… for now: It's the behaviour one might consider akin to that of an obstinate child. Markets, particularly in the equities space, threw as many toys out of the pram as they could find in the past 3 months, in protest of the Fed's tough talk. US Fed Chair Jerome Powell's back down and soothing words finally placated markets, giving the financial equivalent of a candy-bar in exchange for markets' good behaviour. Last night, Fed Speaker Bostic backed his chief up and reaffirmed the dovish-tone: he sees little more than one hike this year, even amid a solid growth outlook. Taking aside whether it’s the right kind of positive reinforcement, the question becomes whether the underlying problem has been fixed or is just a distraction from the facts.
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MaxIG,Could it be the end of the trade war?- EMEA Brief 07 Jan
Guest KatherineIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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Guest,Shift in preception - APAC brief 7 Jan
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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MaxIG,Dividend Adjustments 07 Jan - 11 Jan
JamesIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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JamesIG,Adding to Positions
Nelsy-Boy posted a topic in General Trading Strategy Discussion,
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JamesIG,Post in GBPUSD retrace trade
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JamesIG,House Democrats win votes to end partial government shutdown- EMEA Brief 04 Jan
Guest KatherineIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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Guest,A bearish day - APAC brief 4 Jan
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
ASX bucks theme: Trade was thin in Australian markets during Thursday’s session, as can be expected this time of the year. Despite the doom and gloom stifling the rest of the financial world, the ASX200 performed quite well. The index closed 1.36 per cent higher for the day, closing above a cluster of resistance levels at 5633, on solid breadth of 79 per cent. There was a touch of debate as to how this could happen on a day of bad news, and where US Futures were getting pummelled. The best answer came from the Twittersphere: the tumble in the AUD combined with the big-fall in ACG bond yields increased the attractiveness of Australian stocks, as a lower currency and its effect on earnings, coupled with lower discount rates, improved the relative value of equities, translating into a general lift in the ASX200 index.
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MaxIG,'Flash Crash' as Apple Releases Revenue Warning - EMEA Brief 03 Jan
Guest JoeIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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Guest,First trading day of the new year - APAC brief 3 Jan
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
House prices falling: Taking in isolation what was hurled at Australian markets yesterday, and it was a bad day for the bulls. As alluded to, volume was light in Asia, and the ASX experienced volumes 45.85 per cent below the 30-day average. The financial press was handed two big headlines to run with that meant it was left-right-goodnight and straight to the canvas for the Aussie share markets on day-one of 2019. CoreLogic released its latest reading on the Australian residential property market, and for home owners it left much to be desired. The slow-down in the market continues for the major Sydney and Melbourne markets, each down now from their respective highs by 11.2 per cent and 7.2 per cent, according to yesterday’s reading.
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MaxIG,Post in Indices
Caseynotes posted a post in a topic,
In the chart below comparing the Feb decline verses this recent decline it's interesting there was no real washout this time round and was much more controlled suggesting less panic and more a case of managing potential high risk over the holiday break."
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JamesIG,Dividend Adjustments 31 Dec - 7 Jan
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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JamesIG,Not so Happy New year; China manufacturing slowdown - EMEA Brief 2 Jan
GeorgeIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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GeorgeIG,Will 2018's turbulence continue into the New Year? - EMEA Brief 31 Dec
MichaelaIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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JamesIG,Friday’s trade: APAC brief - 31 Dec
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
Final day of 2018: Today is quite obviously the last trading day of 2018 and it caps off an extraordinary month – and an extraordinary year, at that. A reliance on the calendar as a way of defining and measuring market success is shallow. But for purely rhetorical purposes: who would have thought that a year that would contain two all-time highs for Wall Street would culminate in a negative year for global equities? In a similar vein: what about the gang buster earnings, and white-hot economic growth – does this seem like the end of a year that contained both those things? It’s reductive to distil the year’s market action to those two points, however it does highlight how unconventional and sometimes strange this year has been in global markets.
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MaxIG,End of year FX swap rates - significant moves currently likely
JamesIG posted a blog entry in IG Community Blog,
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JamesIG,US markets close higher in volatile session - EMEA Brief 28 Dec
GeorgeIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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GeorgeIG,Pull back - APAC brief 28 Dec
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
The real versus paper economy: It could be a far too grand a notion: the push and pull in financial markets at present is being driven by confusion regarding the current relationship between the “paper (or financial) economy”, and the “real economy”. The fact that such a distinction exists feels absurd. Shouldn’t proper functioning financial markets be the vessel to allocate capital efficiently throughout a (“real”) economy? In principle, that ought to be so. In this world, that axiom seems far from true. The battle being waged within markets at present – and this unfolded in a significant way overnight – is between economic policy makers (a la the US Federal Reserve) on one hand, and financial market participants on the other: the former says things are alright, while the latter is indicating everywhere that things are not okay.
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MaxIG,The FT's year in review
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JamesIG,Dow Pares Losses Following Worst Christmas Eve Ever - EMEA Brief 27 Dec
Guest IGAaronC posted a blog entry in Market News,
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Guest,Wall Street momentum - APAC brief 27 Dec
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
Wall Street momentum to lift ASX: After a two-day hiatus, Australian equity markets reopen this morning. The last price on SPI Futures is indicating a 35-point pop for the ASX200 at today’s open, though that price, it must be remarked, comes from its closing price on December 24th. A lot has transpired in the 48 hours-or-so during the Christmas public holiday period: immense sell-offs in certain markets, more political chaos and uncertainty in the US, and now an ample bounce in US stocks. Considering the time of year, the Australian share market is more than likely to experience another session of thin trade today. Monday’s session, for example, saw volume 63.40 per cent below the 30-day average. In saying this, though unsubstantial, Wall Street’s momentum looks likely to carry our market higher.
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MaxIG,Late Dec ‘18 crypto rally
Guest PandaFace posted a topic in Cryptocurrency and Blockchain,
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