Commentary
3c Analysis Commentary Page - Adding Value
On these pages we will expand upon some of our forecasts, talk about other moving markets from a technical analysis perspective, explain technical analysis tools from a practical perspective and include guest commentary from a variety of roles across the financial markets.
Mini Mac Trumps the Big MacPosted on January 19, 2017 10:28 am by Benn Steil and Emma Smith of the Council on Foreign RelationsThe “law of one price” holds that identical goods should trade for the same price in an efficient market. But how well does it actually hold internationally? The Economist magazine’s famous Big... read more
Last week's strong decline in NOKSEK created a 5th down week from the last 6 and confirmed the negative RSI break with a move below the 21 week, offset, moving average. This in our assessment confirms a change of sentiment to bearish - ending the underlying positive tone that dominated last year. In fact last year's move... read more
Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist 2016 Commodity PerformanceIt was an up and down year for commodities, but things ultimately finished in the black.The S&P Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) climbed 10.1% on the year – it was just enough to edge out the S&P 500, which ended 2016 with a 9.5% return.WINNERS IN 2016The biggest winners on the... read more
Our assessment of trend for USDMXN was dominated since April with a bullish bias.Trading at the end of last year in USDMXN was, unsurprisingly, dominated by the US election and the comments made during the campaign by Trump. The wild swing in investor sentiment around the result announcement created a week's range of 16% of the value... read more
3cAnalysis Performance figures for November/December 2016Below is a summary of the success of our daily calls throughout November and, a shortened, December 2016. These are broken down into an overview of percentage of directional success.Trading in November was dominated by the surprise US election result which caused more volatility than the Brexit shock. As usual the... read more
