Just two more trading days until a chunk of the financial world takes their major yearly holidays over the Christmas/New Years period, if they haven’t already that is! With this exodus of high volume market participants goes the liquidity that they provide and we often see a large trading vacuum left for the rest lucky enough to still be at our desks. We all know that a lack of volume in the markets can cause wilder than usual swings and whipsaws. Heck we’ve all watched how markets react to orders being pulled and squaring up around major news releases, right? But with the Fed’s interest rate decision coming last ... (full story)