FXCM Research Team

FXCM Research Team

FXCM Research Team consists of a number of FXCM's Market and Product Specialists.

Articles published by FXCM Research Team generally have numerous contributors and aim to provide general Educational and Informative content on Market News and Products.

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  • How To Trade Lumber Futures

    The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is the world's largest derivatives marketplace, offering the public a vast array of options and futures contracts. Several of the CME's featured products face the equity, debt, agricultural, energy and metal asset classes. Among these listings is a softwood industry staple known as random length lumber futures. What Are Lumber Futures? Lumber futures are financial derivatives that furnish participants with leveraged softwood market exposure. Hedgers…

  • Gold EMAs Are Bearish Ahead of Fed Statement

    Past performance is not an indicator of future results Gold has had a very ordinary 2021. The precious metal has been drifting sideways for most of the year (blue rectangle). We have added a triple moving average to get a sense of gold's directional bias. This is inherently risky because moving averages are trend-following indicators. This means that they work very well during trending moves but give constant whipsaw signals…

  • How Impending Inflation Could Affect Investors

    In the world of finance, inflation is a key driver of asset valuations, consumption and consumer sentiment. Traders and investors alike monitor inflation on a daily basis, evaluating its potential impact on the markets. While views toward the phenomenon vary, it is a primary driver of economic progress. What Is Inflation? According to the Oxford dictionary, inflation is "a general increase in prices in an economy and consequent fall in…

  • What Is Solana? A Guide To The Blockchain Network

    Solana is a project that advertises itself as the world's fastest blockchain, one that could potentially process millions of transactions per second. Solana's sol tokens have experienced some very impressive gains at times, skyrocketing in 2021, for example. While the project seems to hold great promise, it has encountered some technical difficulties. For example, the Solana network went down in September 2021 when it became overwhelmed with transactions. What Is…

  • Thematic Investing

    What Is Thematic Investing? Thematic investing is an investment approach that seeks to outperform the general market by buying stocks and other financial assets that the investor or portfolio manager believes will benefit from widespread economic, social, financial and technological trends over the long term. Thematic investing goes beyond sector investing, in which a mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (ETF) invests in securities in a particular industry. Rather, thematic investing…

  • ESG vs Impact Investing vs SRI: What Are The Differences?

    More and more people today want their investments to reflect their values—in a sense, "putting their money where their mouth is"—while also providing a good financial return. Professional investment firms have responded by creating mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and other vehicles to respond to the demand. According to the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, or US SIF, there were US$17.1 trillion invested in sustainable investing strategies at year-end 2019,…

  • Top 5 US Stocks To Watch for Q3 2021

    The second quarter earnings season was very good with over 80% of S&P 500 companies reporting an earnings surprise. Moreover, stock indexes performed strongly with FXCM's SPX500 up 8.25%, the NAS100 up 11.5% and the US2000 coming in at 4.3% During the pandemic period, growth companies have outperformed their value counterparts. This is largely due to the benefit that these companies have received from the lower rate environment as central…

  • Complete Guide To Weber IPO

    2021 proved to be a record-setting period for private companies launching their initial public offerings (IPOs). In fact, through the first half of the calendar year, the IPO market approached record levels for annual proceeds while eclipsing previous benchmarks for listings. From 1 January 2021 to 26 July 2021, the money raised by IPOs hit US$89 billion, up 232% year over year. Also, the number of listings jumped to 250,…

  • How Will The Delta Variant Impact The Markets?

    The COVID-19 pandemic brought the financial world to its knees in 2020. Steep sell-offs in equities and commodities plagued the markets as capitulation became a theme for March and April of 2020. Later in the year, a second wave of COVID-19 infections (1 July - 15 October) returned investor angst to the markets. By late-October, the Chicago Board of Trade's (CBOE) Volatility Index (VIX) posted a reading near 40.00—the highest…

  • Complete Guide To Robinhood IPO

    Aided by vast government stimulus and unlimited quantitative easing (QE), 2020/2021 proved to be especially lucrative for the U.S. stock markets. In fact, the leading American equities indices routinely posted fresh record highs amid the COVID-19 economic recovery. July 2021 brought a historic event for U.S. large cap stocks, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) eclipsed 35,000 for the first time ever. Amid the 2020/2021 equities market bull run,…

  • Complete Guide To Warby Parker IPO

    The first half of 2021 was an extremely active time for initial public offerings (IPO) on U.S. stock exchanges. In the 14 months following the COVID-19 market panic of March 2020, equities investors became extremely active. As a result, stocks rallied across the board as large, mid, and small caps posted epic gains. In fact, from 1 April 2020 to 1 July 2021, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (+59.1%), S&P…

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