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Unusual Options Activity: Big Money’s Bullish on WHAT Sector?
Big Money Traders Are Betting on a Rebound To kick our unusual options activity off, we have an over $1 million bet on energy stock APA Corporation (APA).
Suddenly, the Bitcoin futures ETF out of nowhere
This week there is one news item to rule them all, namely the highly anticipated first Bitcoin futures ETF set to start trading in the US. We walk you through why the surprise new ETF is important, while possibly also meaning hardly anything for the market.A Bitcoin futures ETF is...
USDCAD Rallies in Downtrend
USDCAD is in the bearish area on the daily chart on the left. A bearish cross of EMAs and stochastic potentially align short-term traders with the daily. If signals occur, movement of stochastic to 20 level and maintenance of that level increase chance of a successful trade. Trend following indicators may be useful in this case as a potential exit...
XAUUSD Lacks Trend on Daily
In the above daily chart, we are using a triple moving average system to assess the trend. Ideally, the short term green EMA>intermediate orange EMA>red long term average in an uptrend and green orange
AUDUSD Dips in Uptrend
AUDUSD is in the bullish area on the daily chart on the left. A bullish cross of EMAs and stochastic potentially align short-term traders with the daily. If signals occur, movement of stochastic to 80 level and maintenance of that level increase chance of a successful trade. Trend following indicators...
NZDUSD Dips In Uptrend
NZDUSD is in the bullish area on the daily chart on the left. A bullish cross of EMAs and stochastic potentially align short-term traders with the daily. If signals occur, movement of stochastic to 80 level and maintenance of that level increase chance of a successful trade. Trend following indicators...
FX Update: Strongest themes getting overdone?
The contrarian in me is making a bit of a fuss as recent market developments like JPY weakness and commodity currency strength look extremely extended for at least the short term. This week looks short on macro catalysts, but US yields pressing back higher could add some fresh energy and...
Energy is building towards…what?
Today we run through a choppy start to the week as the market digests the latest sharp advance in energy prices and bond yields and casts a nervous eye on the feeble Chinese growth data for Q3. We also dive into the sharp flattening of the US yield curve, the...
COT: Brent and grains sold; industrial-linked metals in demand
Futures positions and changes made by hedge funds across commodities, forex, bonds and stock indices up until last Tuesday, October 12. A week where stocks traded close to unchanged ahead of the start of the US earnings season while bond yields and the dollar both rose ahead of Wednesday's FOMC...