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Position sizing is an important, often overlooked aspect of trading. Many traders look at position sizing as a way to decrease downside risk without seeing it as a tool to increase performance. Let's see how we can more intelligently determine our

EUR, JPY, GBP, CHF, NZD: Outlooks For The Coming Week - Morgan Stanley " EUR: Watching the ECB. Bearish. We remain bearish on EUR, and expect diverging monetary policy to weaken the currency. In the run up to the December ECB meeting, markets are

Markets are set to open lower on Monday after the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday which saw 129 people killed and many more injured. Events in Paris are likely to have a negative impact on market sentiment early on Monday, with the broader

There are a lot of ways to manage risk in a portfolio. All have pros and cons. One often misunderstood tactic is to employ stop orders Q. I like a stock and want to buy it, but the markets have me a little nervous. A friend suggested a stop-loss

"This is not a secret," explains Kris Roman, director of geopolitical research center Euro-Rus, "The whole economy is built on the military theme: to maintain its economic growth, the United States needs a war every 4 years, otherwise the economic

If Greece collapses, there will be giant dollops of blame to go round. The biggest ones will stick on whoever behaves most unreasonably in the standoff between Athens and its creditors, which could easily end in default and disaster. This linkage

First at Mayzus : Upcoming risk - Instruments moving to 'Close Only' mode Due to the uncertainty surrounding the ongoing Greek debt negotiations, and ahead of a potential announcement over the weekend that could lead to high volatility on the market

When Chicago Public Schools announced on June 24 that it would borrow $1 billion to make a $600 million-plus pension payment due June 30 an eerie feeling spread across bond investors and taxpayers alike. It was the same feeling that gripped investors

Alexis Tsipras will accept all his bailout creditors' conditions that were on the table this weekend with only a handful of minor changes, according to a letter the Greek prime minister sent late Tuesday night and obtained by the Financial Times. The

Will Payrolls Propel USD To New Highs? With less than 24 hours to go before Friday’s non-farm payrolls report, the U.S. dollar is holding up well. The greenback traded higher versus the Japanese yen, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand dollars

If you were waiting for a sign that things have gone badly, this is it Reuters reports, citing an EU official, that European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker refused to take a phone call from Greek PM Tsipras on Saturday because Athens has

Hellenic Parliament’s Debt Truth Committee Preliminary Findings - Executive Summary of the report In June 2015 Greece stands at a crossroad of choosing between furthering the failed macroeconomic adjustment programmes imposed by the creditors or

Deutsche Bank (DE:DBKGn), the euro zone's second-largest bank by assets with large operations in Britain, has begun initial preparations for a possible UK exit from the European Union as Prime Minister David Cameron readies a referendum on the

On Monday evening, Benoit Coeure told a room of bankers and hedge-fund managers in London that the European Central Bank will front load its asset-buying program before a summer lull. The next day, the rest of the market found out, irking investors

Today's Queen's Speech confirmed the UK plans to hold an in-out EU referendum by the end of 2017. This comes against calls from businesses and the Bank of England urging the government to hold the plebiscite as soon as possible in order to mitigate

arren Buffett is the world's most famous long-term investor but forex traders can learn from him too. With Buffett delivered earnings yesterday and the Wall Street Journal got some lessons from a friend of the 84-year-old Oracle. Here are 3 that will

When Monday’s Eurogroup meeting concluded without an agreement between Greece and its creditors, it should have been game over for Athens. With pensioners at their breaking point and with local governments reluctant to comply with a decree mandating

"We're going bust." "No, you're not." "You're strangling us." "No we're not." "You owe us for World War Two." "We gave already." The game of chicken between Greece and its international creditors is turning into a vicious blame game as Athens lurches

Deutsche Bank Chief International Economist Torsten Sløk minces no words with his latest chart of the day. "In my view, every asset allocation team in the world should have this chart hanging on their wall," he writes. The chart shows that a year

A speech from hedge fund legend Stanley Druckenmiller is making the rounds, here's what you need to know. Druckemiller was George Soros' sidekick when they broke the Bank of England in 1992 then went on his own with Duquense Capital Management and