Category Archive: Views & Commentaries

Eating Lab Grown Meat, El Nino And Trading Against Markets – Fx Ideas

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I was wondering why 78% of polled Americans would not eat lab-grown meat when I remembered the “pink slime” scandal from 2 years ago. https://tradehaven.net/market/credit-default-sickness/ Yet at the same time we have China… Continue reading

Passover, Full Moon Eclipse and Nose Bleeding Markets – EURUSD

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The Jewish Pesach (Passover) started yesterday along with the full moon (eclipse) and Janet Yellen gave us nosebleed by not mentioning anything about monetary policy in her speech, leaving the market LOST and… Continue reading

Ad Hoc Commentary – the Bank of England explains away two misconceptions about money creation

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If you were taught that: 1. Commercial banks lend out the deposits that savers placed with them, and 2. The central bank control the quantity of broad money via the money multiplier Then… Continue reading

Anger, Anger, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop To Drink

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There is a lot of anger in the world today, from the big men and women to the little people. For the little people, the anger arises from social inequality which is threatening… Continue reading

Ad Hoc Commentary – the European Franco-German core has virtually no Keynesian capacity

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Greece successfully returned to the global capital markets yesterday and sent some Eurozone government yields tumbling to record lows. Yours truly maintains our prediction at the beginning of the year: “…the European sovereign… Continue reading

Ad Hoc Commentary – China should print money and retire all its central government debt

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Albert Einstein’s ‘Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?’ paper published on Sep 27 1905 introduced the world to the equation E = mc2. Einstein ushered in the age… Continue reading

Trade Like A HFT, Is To Follow The Pain – AUDUSD

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A friend of a friend’s wanted to set up a branch of their HFT (high frequency trading) firm in Singapore a year back. Afterall, Singapore is the king of Asian foreign exchange and… Continue reading

Sick Thoughts – Temasek Times The Market Top ?

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Here I am making myself more ill than I already am, on a Sunday with flu like symptoms, by re-reading my 20 year old copy of The Hot Zone by Richard Preston and… Continue reading

Ad Hoc Commentary – jobs as the true antidote to low inflation in Europe

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“…Now that the Buba had ‘given’ green light for European QE, the only thing that we need to wait for is a low European inflation print. The Eurostat will give a flash estimate… Continue reading

April Is The Cruellest Month, 2 Eclipses And Yellen Risk

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15 April 2014 Total Lunar Eclipse 29 April 2014 Annular Solar Eclipse Fact : Solar eclipses can only occur on new moons and lunar eclipses can only occur on full moons. Eclipses are… Continue reading