Alpari Research & Analysis

Thursday brought us gains on two important European currencies: CHF and EUR. The first one was gaining traction from some time already but for the second one that is something new and should be rather...

Yesterday’s FOMC minutes did not bring us any attractions. From that report, we see that FED will remain patient and they will closely watch the market. The influence on the USD was limited but...

Gold keeps going down despite quite big amount of risk around the globe (Trade Wars, Iran, Brexit). The main reason for that seems the stronger USD. Buyers are doing all they can to protect the major...

May is an interesting month on the market. It is hard to generally say if this is a month of a USD, or safe heavens or for example Bitcoin. After analyzing many charts, I can say that so far, it looks...

‘Sell in May and go away’. This is a saying that still applies to stocks, even despite last week’s rise. It definitely applies to the euro, which recently headed south and is now...

Trade wars continue but you have to admit that the volatility on the market caused by that is not extraordinary. Prices of risky assets are pretty resilient and save heaven assets are not surging as...

Sanctions on Iran and the ‘broken’ trade deal are still negatively affecting vulnerable, riskier assets. This creates a good environment for the correction on some of those instruments. As...

Today, I have for you three pairs with Japanese yen. This pair is considered as a safe haven asset, so in theory, should gain, when the sentiment on the market is bearish. That is the case right now...

The story of the day on Tuesday is definitely the RBA not cutting the cash rate in Australia. They put that decision on hold, despite the consensus being the rate cut. That helped the AUD a lot and...

Finally, fundamental analysts have something to write about. The price has been moving very technically recently. We haven’t heard much from Downing Street (Brexit), Donald Trump (trade wars...

Today we will focus on the pairs with the Russian ruble, where we can see two nice bullish setups. If you have followed us for some time, then it should not be a surprise that we were anticipating...

The USD price was playing the ascending triangle pattern scenario. The DXY broke the upper, horizontal resistance of this formation and went higher. Most recently, the price was testing the broken...

As expected, the last day of this week brings us a correction of the recent movements, especially those on the USD and instruments connected with the USD (commodities). On most of the assets that does...

This week brought us crucial movements for the American Dollar. USD made new local highs/lows on many instruments with the Dollar Index and the EUR/USD as the best examples. It seems that Thursday is...

The big news today is the lower than expected CPI from Australia, which negatively affects both pairs from Antipodes. In my opinion, the best occasion from the pairs with the AUD or NZD, can be...

The fact that we were having Easter holidays did not mean that the market was poised to be boring and of low volatility. Already Friday brought us interesting trading opportunities and Monday, with...