

Gathering Technical Clues to Determine the Direction of Markets
One of my job as a trader is to constantly gather clues to make sense of market gyrations. And then, but only then, to trigger entries...


Extreme volatility leads to contraction of volatility
The President of the United States wearing a trader's shirt from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange ! With a single tweet the President of...


Active Management is About to Outperform Passive (again)
Active and Passive outperformance trends are cyclical | Rolling 3-year periods | Source: Hartford FundsSource + Market Sentiment.


The Federal Reserve is Cornered
Unless you live on a remote Greek island, you will have noticed that the U.S. is slowly but surely transitioning from a market economy to...


Everything you need to know about the Trump Tariffs (and generational change in the international trade and financial systems).
Stephen Miran, Trump's nominee to lead the Council of Economic Advisers, has written a very important essay on the remodeling of the...


The Problem with Selective Datasets
The above chart shows annualized forward returns of the SP500 since 1993. It shows that the worst you could have done as a passive...


A Simple System Demonstrates Why Active Management Beats Passive
As previously referenced, a 5-minute ORB strategy is a strategy that allows the trader to bet on a breakout from the opening range during...


The Banana Trade
This is a great post by Macro Ops on the real driving force behind the US Equity Markets. Hint: it's nothing else than Supply and Demand....


The Next Asymmetric Trade in FX?
We like SHORT SWISS FRANC across the board. We have high confidence that the Swiss National Bank (SNB) will intervene in the FX market...


The Critical Regime Change: Our Roadmap
UPDATE on March 17, 2025 The Trump administration has surprised market participants with swift and disruptive actions that aim to...