How Retailers Manipulate You... Without You Even Knowing
Gone are the days where each customer, or consumer for that matter, was treated individually. Front end systems as we are exposed to on a daily basis connect us with our devices and social accounts; we simply cannot live without these little things that we gleefully take for granted. But if you asked any informatics professionals that either designs or works with back end communications systems, prepared to have your minds numbed by the sheer magnitude and depth of integration these systems possess. Think about it, if Google can rather accurately anticipate what you were searching for in the past few minutes you were on its search engine, and then bring up a thematically related advert on another page you subsequently opened, ponder for a second the additional layers of data collection about your behaviors online.
Continued From Part 1...
More importantly, professional traders see the value in diversification, but not just in a superficial sense. We like to call it multi-faceted diversity. In layman's parlance, it is diversity across a trading or investing portfolio that is accomplished through a series of different strategies. This is a crucial aspect which a lot of retail traders and investors miss out on because they were never taught to think in such a direction.
It is high time we turned to the treasury market for insight instead of running around in circles chasing an old tail. First of all, readers should understand that the interest rates markets (which includes the money and treasury markets) are extremely adept to fluctuations in inflation and inflation expectations.
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We'll get straight to the point: The markets are difficult to trade now.
But...Wait a minute! Aren't the markets ALWAYS hard to trade?
The answer is: Nope, not always.
Current market conditions have become choppy and difficult to trade, a result of a complex mix of different factors. Taking a huge directional bet is almost certainly going to backfire in no time.
So, in conditions like this, how do you trade?
In today's Snippet:
The fundamentalreasons for current market conditions
In the midst of very busy Lunar New Year festivities, we've turned intermittently bearish again. Why, you may ask?
Regular readers would know that we have been flip flopping on our biases for a good while now. The reason is simple: the markets are doing exactly that - flip flopping. With markets in such volatile conditions, the best strategy is to be ready to turn on a dime.
In today's Snippet, we take a look at last week's NFP report as well as the overall U.S. economy, while centering key parts of our write-up on the U.S. Federal Reserve, other central banks and global stock indexes.
You will learn:
Our reasons for turning intermittently bearish
An in-depth look into last week's NFP report, and why it MATTERS
Why you should pay attention to the U.S. economy, the Fed and the USD
Will be updating this thread with regular charts, data and our views on what is happening in the markets.
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