Recent content by Arbu

It doesn't have any very adventurous outdoor locations you can visit at the weekend, true. But I really value it as a city to cycle in - it's fairly flat, seldom too hot or cold, and reasonably dry - means I get a little bit of exercise almost every day.

I was long gold. There didn't seem to be much risk in being so if Russia didn't invade Ukraine.

1. Own a house in London, have a family, use my mind, and get plenty of exercise in order to remain healthy. More specifically on using my mind - keeping up to date with current affairs is good as it's interesting and might have financial benefits, through trading. Computer programming is also...

Sure, sorry for the long delay. I continued trading in 2022, doing well out of Russia invading the Ukraine and again on Kwasi Kwarteng's mini budget disaster. But that latter success seems to have really messed me up - I haven't been able to make money at all since then, losing a modest amount...

This speech: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/bowman20230805a.htm is completely unmentioned in the forex calendars I am aware of: https://tradingeconomics.com/calendar and https://www.babypips.com/economic-calendar?week=2023-W31 It seems quite an important speech to me. Does...

Robert Kennedy is at odds of 15/15.5 on betfair to be the Democrat Nominee for the 2024 presidential election. And for winning that election he is at odds of 13.5/14! So what's that all about? Do people think he may win as an independent candidate if he doesn't get the nomination? I suppose it...

Depends whether you consider yesterday to have been a risk on day. The dollar came down and the EUR/GBP also fell, so it seems the correlation holds. If yesterday was a risk on day then it seems that explains the movements. If it was another risk-off day then it must be something else.

Doesn't answer my question at all. Why should hawkish news from the Fed mean that the EUR should be strong against the USD more than the GBP is against the USD? I think the answer is that GBP is seen as something of a risk asset these days given all the Brexit/DUP problems and BoE...

Up about 35 cents. What's the correlation with the dollar there?

I don't think that their Stock Screener is really what I'm after. It seems to provide a table of data about stocks, but I'm looking to view the volume on a bar by bar basis. I would imagine this is possible with PineScript, but I'm not sure how I would loop through all stocks. It feels as if...

Thanks. It's slightly hard to see where to get started. I see they have something called PineScript. Do you recommend using that or can I just access the API using vb.net, a language I'm already familiar with?

I would be interested in scanning stocks to look at volume to see if this has any relation to prices. What platform would you recommend to do this? I've used mt4 before and have an account with FXPro which I can access through this. Not sure that there are a lot of stocks available there though...

Why do central banks go straight from buying government bonds to raising interest rates, without seemingly considering the possibility of selling their accumulated stock of government bonds?

OK, I think the prospects for the conflict are not looking quite so bad as a week ago. There are regular negotiations taking place, and Russian forces don't seem to be entering Kiev.

Agreed. Situation in Ukraine looking less intense, but inflation still lurking in the background. I might wait until after the Fed rate announcement before getting long again.