Trading Ideas

Dive into daily market insights and trading opportunities in equity, forex, and commodity markets with our esteemed analyst Giles Coghlan. His cutting-edge analysis has been featured in Reuters, Business Insider, WSJ, Financial Times Adviser, NBC, LBC Radio, CoinTelegraph, Guardian Observer, National Express, and numerous other prestigious financial outlets.

November’s a Nifty Month for the Nikkei

The Nikkei has a very strong seasonal pattern towards the end of November. The reason for this pattern is due to some tax-loss selling behaviour that repeats itself time and time again, resulting in gains in the Nikkei.

November 8, 2023
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Health Care Heading For Gains?

United healthcare group is an American multinational company that manages both healthcare and insurance. As well as providing well needed healthcare products and services the United health group is an extremely profitable company.

November 7, 2023
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Apple earnings disappoint!

Apple's latest earnings show the sales for the Mac and iPad really struggled in this last quarter. Furthermore, the drop in sales to greater China also weighed on sentiment surrounding Apple stock the EPS hit target as did revenue but sales in greater China fell 2 1/2% year-on-year and came in below market expectations.

November 6, 2023
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Has the Dollar Bull Run Come To An End?

A series of interest rate hikes from the Federal reserve has kept the dollar bid continually this year. Inflation fears have been the driver of these rate hikes and the dollar long position is showing extreme stretch position in the…

November 2, 2023
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Time to move into utilities?

Utility companies tend to do well in recessions as consumers understandably still have to make payments for basic requirements such as water, gas and energy. This week is an important week for utility companies and on Friday we see the…

November 2, 2023
Duke Energy Utilities

Watch for SP500 strength!

The Federal Reserve is meeting this week on Wednesday and from a seasonal bias the S&P 500 tends to gain heading into that event. Expectations are increasing that the Federal Reserve will signal peak interest rates so could this mean an increase in US stock prices from here on in?

October 30, 2023
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Oil bulls to fight bearish seasonal signal

The geopolitical crisis in the Middle East has been providing a boost for oil prices on speculative flows. The risk of a wider conflict could threaten the oil supply to the world and that has been the reason for sudden buyers to step into the oil market pushing prices higher.

October 27, 2023
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Meta Miss Ahead?

Meta earnings are due out after the close on Wednesday and their seasonal bias into month end has a distinctly dour outlook. From the start of the year Meta has gained over 150% and it’s return has only fallen behind…

October 24, 2023
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EURUSD tends to fall over the ECB rate meeting

Short-term interest rate markets currently see a 100% chance of the ECB keeping rates unchanged On October the 26th meeting. The terminal rate is seen as being around the current level of 4%. The question is will the ECB recognise…

October 24, 2023

Watch for USDJPY selling

The 150 region on the USDJPY has seen intervention from Japan's Ministry of Finance in the recent past. Remember that the move higher in US yields, recently supported by a strong US retail sales print, also supports the dollar yen.

October 19, 2023
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