Ahmad Hassam / Blog
If you have been into statistical modelling and machine learning then you will have this idea. Intraday data or what is high frequency trading data is not normally distributed and is infact skewed and leptokurtic...
USD/JPY is on the upward march since Donald Trump won the US Presidential Elections. On the day of the election it first threw a tantrum on Trump winning US Presidential Elections news. But then USD/JPY changed mind and has been climbing up since. Financial media is dubbing it the Trump Rally...
Pivot Points are popular with professional traders. Daily Pivot Point and Weekly Point Point Levels are considered important levels. There are many trading strategies that revolve around these pivot points...
Central Banks are the most important players in the market. When they want they intervene in the market. Sometime they get the desired results oftentimes they themselves get surprised the market. The recent case of Royal Bank Of New Zealand that announced a rate cut sometime back...
Federal Reserve recently announced the rate increase in a FOMC Meeting earlier this month. This decision came after a lot of procrastination on part of Federal Reserve. Central Banks are the biggest players in the market. Central Banks have the power to create a lot of money in the market...
Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME is the largest futures and options exchange. Two UAE based traders have been charged with spoofing the gold and silver prices on CME. Read this blog post that explains what these 2 UAE traders were doing and what happened...
Market Spoofing is done when a trader tries to deceive the market by entering very big buy sell limit orders and cancelling them before they can get executed...
On May 6th 2010, Dow Jones Industrial Average Index (DJI), S&P 500 Index (GSPC) and NASDAQ Composite (IXIC) suddenly collapsed and then rebounded rapidly. Dow Jones Index (DJI) had the worst collapse. It lost 998.5 points within minutes only to recover most of the loss again rapidly...
This is old news. This happened in 2014. There was a lot of talk about hard landing of Chinese economy in the financial media. You should know this that Australian economy is now highly linked with the Chinese economy. Today Australian economy is highly dependent on trade with Chinese economy...
London Market Open is one of the most important times in the currency market 24 hour routine. London is still the currency market center in the world with the highest volume of currency transactions.. New York comes after London in the volume of currency transactions...