Author: Mark Sturdy

The Commodity Trader’s view – This week in the Commodity Trading Guide we commenced regular coverage of EUA – (Carbon) Emissions Allowances. Interest and, accordingly, volume is growing strongly in this market,...

The Macro Trader’s view: As recently as late spring the ECB declared that the bottom of the recession would be plumbed by the middle of this year, and growth would resume during 2010. But no sooner had they spoken than key...

The FX Trader’s view – Last week important supports in USD/JPY were violated, swinging the directional bias in favour of shorter term bears. Now that the dust has settled we take a look at the current technical...

The Commodity Trader’s view – Sugar is one of the Softs that has been performing very well over the last few weeks. However, certain bull targets have been reached/exceeded and we are looking closer now for a...

The FX Trader’s view – In Tuesday’s FX Trading Guide we noted several bullish clues in the USD/ZAR chart. We had switched from a Bearish to Sidelined stance and now, following the gains seen this week, we are...

The Commodity Trader’s view – 2009 has seen a good recovery in High Grade Copper, following the serious losses of the previous year. Interesting resistance on the long term chart was recently reached, and we were on...

The FX Trader’s view – A few weeks ago a long term 38.2% support in EUR/GBP was violated, adding weight to the medium term bearish argument that we have been favouring. However, without this view being threatened,...