Looking back, looking forward As a year of volatility ends, another seems set to begin Traders inhabit a world of uncertainty. They must be comfortable making decisions to buy, to sell, to hold or to pyramid positions without knowing the exact outcome. Traders understand this and, for the most part, are comfortable with the world they inhabit. But 2015 has been an uncommonly volatile year for traders and markets. If they weren’t fretting about the chances of a Euro implosion and a Greek exit from the single currency, it was fears about the slowing global economy, the weakness in China, the crashing price of iron ore, ... (full story)