Polemic's Pains

Friday's fun in financial scout camp started by looking in the bear story box and bringing out the old favourite of Deutsche Bank. Which...

Is being a world famous football manager so different from being the CEO of a world famous bank? Let's take a look. Mourinho on today...

I was just plowing through the Sunday opening prices, that part of a Sunday evening where you watch FX open up first and try to garner a...

The only reason I am writing this is because apparently no one cares about anything else and a title like the one I've used should be pu...

September is a remarkably shitty month for many. Not as shitty as November which has to be up there as one of the grimmest months of the yea...

It’s been a while since I wrote a post. I could pretend it was because I have been on holiday. It isn’t. It’s because I really haven’t felt ...

If there has been one party worse at forecasting rates than central banks it has been central bank watchers, actually we should add the ma...

If you were a British tourist about to go on holiday to Turkey would you - Go anyway, you owe it to the kids and the beaches should be les...

The way the markets have opened up after the weekend you’d think the Turkish event hadn’t occurred. DM equity futures have unwound all the ...

I'm going to write this on the fly as I really don't know what is going on in Turkey, beyond an attempted military coup. There are ...

Carney sings The Stranglers. Hold'em down, that's all I've done Change a rate? You're having a laugh son, Think they...

Another goal for the Polemic FCBE 'Fade CB expectation’ trading model. I feel very sorry for Carney’s kids who must be so confused in ...

I wish I was clever enough to work out the real detail in things I have hunches upon. Or rich enough to have a retinue of turtles, as Lord B...

The Brexit trade is suffering a reversal. GBP is motoring higher, as is the FTSE 250. The FTSE250 is significant as once the FTSE100 stopp...

It’s been over a week since I last posted due to the ratio of other commitments versus strong new thoughts. In that time the bitterness over...

Well that didn’t take long. Tuesday's post was about reaching the point of maximum fear and, voila, since then the markets have gone ba...

The recovery in the markets in the face of the wall of media predicted doom has me instantly turning to Monty Python's Mr Ralph Mellish...

Regular readers will know that during the EU crises I wrote on the Macro Man blog as part of Team Macro Man, where we built a ‘Band of Brot...

A scatter gun approach to many thoughts. Manic Monday - The weekend has seen the addition to the unknown of Brexit the unknown of who is ...