Polemic's Pains

A very quick look at concerns that are building rapidly. Background :- Europe - Who is in charge? Russia vs RoW - Slow escalation. UK ...

The Ryder Cup is back and once again has me wondering what golf is all about. Don’t get me wrong, I have been a member of a golf club mysel...

The Apple woes don't seem to be letting up. I was just walking past an Apple store and I'm sure I heard this coming from the iPhone...

Is it possible to over-analyse a market? What is the benefit of dissecting every nuance of every flutter? I ask because the number of man-ho...

Lots has been spoken about the possibility of the ECB using 'unconventional methods'. It would be a delight to see some really uncon...

Scotland FOMC European Economy and the TLTRO 

Today is our first day home from spending a delightful two weeks sailing ourselves around the Greek Islands. Sailing is imbued with many ch...

I thought it time to give my old profession a chance to air how they feel about the state of the jobs market in sell-side FX these days. W...

If I were Putin I‘d drive a huge convoy of aid trucks around the country gathering, like the Pied Piper, moral support along the way. The l...

I saw the remake of ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still ’ on TV over the weekend. I don’t know why, but it was just on and I got hooked working o...

Putin laments his last Big Mac and discusses the future production of the BigPutin. So the EU have unleashed the big sanction guns and...

As we teeter in the Bradley Sideorgraph market turn period, Yellen's yell to sell has been joined by an upswing in Russia/ Ukraine ...

It's that time of year again where my most mythological of turn dates appears. The 16th of July. As I have written before under the T...

Rant 1 UK BoE re housing - Though those concerned about UK house prices cite various reasons as to why current prices are terrible it i...

Any excuse to play Devo, Here we have the bear market's "I can't get no..." after yet another bad bit of news (US GDP) ...

And so it is with English football - all but out but not even granted a clean death, instead being offered a 4% chance of surviving. I thoug...

Shock is wearing thin and markets are putting in some sort of recovery. Shitty stocks have put in the biggest moves judging by my SSI (shit...

Low volatility has been the talking point of the markets over the past couple of months as volatility compression has destroyed bank trading...

The City has always made its buck by arbitraging the regulatory environment. Tax laws keep tax advisors busy, accounting laws keep accountan...

It's that time again for the World Cup to influence markets so despite various opinions on the effect of markets here is a basic guide ...

As video killed the radio star , regulation appears to be killing the FX star. The sight of a baying FX phone jockey bullying and cajoling...

Could I ask that the regulator doesn't forget during this new crack down on currency market manipulation to include the local gift vouch...

The new job has somewhat distracted me from writing for the past couple of weeks and, to that matter, trading too. Which all in all is proba...