How to deal with countertrends

After many months of low activity, markets finally got going mid last year. Was it the anticipation of an end to US QE, war in Ukraine, the Saudis dumping oil, Abenomics, the SNB’s surprise move, GREXIT or anticipation of ECB’s own QE? It was probably a bit of all. For sure, the last 6 months have seen large directional moves in many asset classes. Over the last couple of weeks, some of these trends have started to correct. We will take this opportunity to use our FinGraphs service to monitor two of these countertrend moves (EUR/USD and Brent Oil). We will also look at two more important consolidation/correction periods, namely on the ones at play on Gold and the S&P500. Read more...

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