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“Monitoring of Fast-Paced Markets” – some thoughts from the BIS paper

By | October 11th, 2018
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) published a new paper “Monitoring of fast-paced electronic markets” in September 2018. Whilst oriented to central banks’ own needs, it contains fascinating nuggets for us all. Among them are some of their observations on the role of “primary venues”, principally EBS and Thomson Reuters Matching (now a service of […]
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Takeaways from Chris White, hostage negotiator, talk at TradeTech FX Barcelona

By | September 17th, 2018
First a confession: motivational speakers rarely motivate me. I often find their message shallow and too general to apply in practice. Chris White the hostage negotiator did, however, impress me. It may seem almost irreverent to compare a hostage negotiation with issues we encounter in our daily life, but by looking at the extreme situations […]
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The FX Market Looks Forward and the FX Global Code’s Impact

By | August 14th, 2018
Pre Global Code   Do not click this Link! It is a gateway to an earlier, less correct time when chain smoking dealers deliberately moved the pound with scant regard for the (not yet published) FX Global Code of Conduct Principle 12. The year was 1985. The video is a BBC documentary, Billion Dollar Day, […]
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10 FX Predictions for 2018: A 6-month Report Card

By | June 26th, 2018
In December 2017, I published 10 Foreign Exchange Predictions for 2018. We are now half way through 2018 so it is time to see how they are performing and to grade myself. Overall, I’m giving myself an A-, only scoring an F (for now) on one prediction. Bitcoin: the truth will be told. Grade = A […]
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Artificial Intelligence and the IKEA flat pack

By | April 25th, 2018
Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be the buzzword of the moment. The term evokes strong feelings ranging from hope of improvements in the quality of life for millions of people, especially through advances in medicine, to fear of barely controlled algorithms that cannot explain their actions. Nonetheless, it can be hard to distinguish between hype, re-branded optimization […]
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Whitepaper: Foreign Exchange – Are We Really So Different

By | March 20th, 2018
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MarketFactory Flash Event Analysis

By | February 26th, 2018
Click here to watch a 7 min. presentation of our analysis of the GBP/USD flash event from October 7, 2016, including what we learned compared to conventional wisdom. How MarketFactory can help protect market participants against losses associated with flash events:   MarketFactory is connected to 75+ FX venues. Every message on every venue is time-stamped […]
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Whitepaper: Why does fragmentation continue to increase? Increasing entropy in currency markets

By | February 1st, 2018
In the spring of 2012, Colin Lambert, editor of Profit & Loss, and I held a one-on-one on stage debate. I believed the currency market would continue to fragment and that there would be even more venues on which to trade currencies in the future; Colin believed the market would consolidate. Colin’s case was somewhat […]
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10 Foreign Exchange Predictions for 2018

By | December 11th, 2017
 Bitcoin: the truth will be told. CME will launch futures on bitcoin on December 18. It will then be possible to short sell bitcoin attracting a new cohort of traders. There are parallels here tof the Japanese equities markets in the late 1980s (I lived in Japan at that time). Read my recent blog post.. […]
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Bitcoin – The Truth Will Soon Be Known

By | December 4th, 2017
I attended and moderated a panel at FXWeek Europe last week (29 November 2017) and the hot topic was Bitcoin. It got me thinking… In December 1989 I was living in Japan and working for Citibank Tokyo. The yen had strengthened steadily over the previous four years from Y260 to Y123 against the dollar. Land […]
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