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Trading Thoughts : Get That Monkey Off My Back

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Another year and another Chinese Lunar New Year approaches, an event to be celebrated by at least 1.4 billion people in the world, including ethnic Chinese, as they prepare to enter a new… Continue reading

Singapore Corporate Bonds 2017 : No Rain, No Rainbow

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2016 has been a great hunting year for some investors, taking advantage of one of the darkest periods in Singapore bond market history to pick up obscene bargains while others footed the price.… Continue reading

2017, Let’s Send in the Clowns !

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  We enter the first week of 2017 with a certain unease in our hearts that we cannot place even as the Singapore Straits Times Index has done nothing but rise every single… Continue reading

Nailing it on U.S. employment day … better be lucky than smart

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My futures broker was calling to congratulate me for putting on the TYQ3 put condor before the economic figure release … but with humility, I told him I was probably more lucky than… Continue reading

Making a home run

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Asianmacro has not posted since the 1st week of May to smell the roses into early summer and also in travels across Europe.  Looking back in the past where I have been in… Continue reading

Dear Kim … Please don’t Nuke the markets!

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Illustration 1: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un conferring with his Generals with a background map showing proposed flight paths of missiles striking targets in the continental United States Asianmacro relish holidays when most/all markets… Continue reading

MAJOR RISK OFF IMMINENT TO APRIL

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Illustration 1: Bitcoin price (from inception 2010 to present) Asianmacro had been busy trading and had not posted and shared any views for 2 weeks till today (*where I made 3 posts within… Continue reading

Good and Bad EUR notes … they are not the same!

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Asianmacro had the pleasure of living and being based in Europe for a period in the past.  The best thing of the Eurozone had always been hassle free travel across one country to… Continue reading

Capital Controls and Safe Havens

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 Illustration 1: ”Bank run” on AIA Singapore office in September 2008 Even in staid Singapore that is always seen as a safe haven, there was a ”bank run” on AIA Singapore office in… Continue reading

Getting shafted in Cyprus … Who’s next?

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PETROS KARADJIAS / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cypriots line up to use an ATM machine outside of a Laiki Bank branch in Larnaca, Cyprus, on Saturday 16 March 2013.  But there is no cash… Continue reading