by Ryan Littlestone | February 28th, 2020, 11:41:01 | Research
4X Global Research Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy (FIRMS) – 27 February 2020 In reaction to the coronavirus epidemic governments across the world have enacted measures unprecedented in recent decades, including closing national borders, setting up...
by Ryan Littlestone | November 26th, 2019, 12:53:28 | Research
Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy – 4X Global Global FX volatility has fallen further in the past month to its lowest level since September 2014 according to our estimate (see Figure 1). Volatility in most major currencies has either fallen or only...
by Ryan Littlestone | March 19th, 2019, 13:17:09 | Education, News
A lack of investor commitment will keeps vols stuck to the floor We’ve been talking a lot in our trading room about the dropping volatility in forex markets, and what that means for our trading. With volatility at historically low levels, it’s sucking the...
by Ryan Littlestone | December 11th, 2018, 11:54:49 | News
Market clearing houses face a battle to regulate margin processes as volatility ramps up and machine trading increases The WSJ has an interesting piece out on how the current volatility in markets is playing havoc with margin calculations. The long and short of it is...
by Ryan Littlestone | March 23rd, 2018, 17:26:38 | News
FX markets are taking all the trade war news in their stride We’ve been chatting about volatility in the live room and a look around the vol measures, the picture is pretty clear. Si’s pointed out that the VIX has perked up. But FX vols are much more...
