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The Lockdown, the Fallout and the Roadmap to Recovery
April 30, 2020

By Deepta Bolaky  @DeeptaGOMarkets Global Lockdown In an abrupt and unprecedented manner, the world witnessed a mass halt to global activities due to the pandemic. Governments and central banks rushed in to intervene and support the global economy with unconventional measures to cushion the impact of the coronavirus on their economies and ease ma...

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US Earnings Reports to Watch This Week
April 28, 2020

By Deepta Bolaky  @DeeptaGOMarkets A Summary of Major US Earnings Reports This Week It will be one of the busiest weeks of the earnings season with some of the most valuable companies reporting their quarterly earnings. The remaining of the FAANG group will also release their corporate results with guidance across the week. Amid major companies wi...

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A Summary of Major US Earnings Reports
April 24, 2020

By Deepta Bolaky  @DeeptaGOMarkets A Summary of Major US Earnings Reports IBM, Netflix Inc, Snap AT&T, and Intel Corp were among the major large-cap corporations reporting earnings.Even though the pandemic is expected to portrait a dire outlook, earnings results are much awaited to gauge if large companies can muddle through the crisis and how...

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OPEC and G20 Meetings Not Guaranteed
April 8, 2020

By Deepta Bolaky  @DeeptaGOMarkets On 8 March 2020, Saudi Arabia initiated an oil price war with Russia, triggering a rout in the oil market at a time where the world is facing a pandemic and many countries forced to shut down their activities and borders. Crude oil prices have lost nearly half of their prices, battled by a simultaneous demand an...

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First Quarter: Crisis, Volatility, and Opportunities
March 31, 2020

By Deepta Bolaky  @DeeptaGOMarkets The first quarter of 2020 was marred by unpredicted events that rattled the financial markets: Tensions between US and Iran; The extreme weather conditions across the globe as a result of climate change; The novel coronavirus; and An oil price war between Saudi Arabia, the oil kingdom, and Russia. A T...

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The Perfect Storm Brewing in the Oil Market
March 27, 2020

By Deepta Bolaky  @DeeptaGOMarkets The Perfect Storm Brewing in the Oil Market The oil and gas industry has been undergoing significant challenges due to the structural shift within the industry. A pandemic-induced economic downturn and an oil price war have now added another layer of uncertainty to the oil markets. Tensions between Saudi Arabia ...

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Investment Opportunities in the Health Care Sector
March 24, 2020

By Deepta Bolaky  @DeeptaGOMarkets It might be difficult to stay optimistic in such plunging markets. Global equities are in a bear market and investors are moving away from riskier assets. Amid the mayhem, there may still be some buying opportunities if investors are selective about certain stocks. We are facing a global pandemic that is slowly...

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Year to Date: ASX Best Performer
March 20, 2020

By Deepta Bolaky  @DeeptaGOMarkets It may be difficult to remain optimistic in such plunging markets. Global equities are in bear market territory and investors are moving away from riskier assets. Amid the mayhem, there might still be some buying opportunities if investors are selective about certain stocks. We are facing a global pandemic th...

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Gold Is Being Liquidated
March 18, 2020

By Deepta Bolaky  @DeeptaGOMarkets Liquidity Crisis High levels of liquidity happen when there is both supply and demand for an asset, meaning transactions can take place easily. A market is considered to be liquid if it can absorb liquidity trades with significant changes in price. A liquidity crisis is, therefore, an acute shortage or drying up...

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Should Current Market Volatility Merit a Review of how you are Trading?
March 13, 2020

  Volatility Revisited Volatility is a measure of the range of price movement over a defined period on a specific timeframe on which any calculation is performed. It may increase or decrease dependent on market conditions and aims to provide the trader with an indication as to whether the range price movement in subsequent candles/bar is likel...

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Bear Market – Where’s the Floor?
March 13, 2020

By Deepta Bolaky  @DeeptaGOMarkets Bear Market – Where’s the Floor? In such plunging markets, we either tend to remember one of the most quoted Warren Buffet-isms “Widespread Fear is Your Friend, Personal Fear is Your Enemy” or see “Buying opportunities as catching a falling knife”. Investors are in a state of shock rattled by the d...

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A Volatile Month – With New Highs and Big Plunges
February 27, 2020

By Deepta Bolaky  @DeeptaGOMarkets A Volatile Month - With New Highs and Big Plunges February brought “new highs” and “big plunges” in the financial markets. The COVID_19 has added another layer of uncertainty in the markets and is threatening to disrupt an already fragile global economy. Investors are forced to exercise increased cauti...

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Top 5 Daily Habits of Experienced Traders
February 27, 2020

Success leaves clues, and over the years as an educator and coach, I can confidently say that there are several things that traders who achieve positive trading outcomes appear to do, that less successful traders are not doing. One of these is to have a daily agenda or habits that go alongside direct trading activities with the aims of getting a...

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Australian Earnings Results – ASX200 Hits Record High
February 19, 2020

By Deepta Bolaky  @DeeptaGOMarkets It was another busy day for the Australian share market with a series of corporate results;  namely for Asaleo Care, Crown, Cleanaway, Domino's Pizza, Fletcher Building, Fortescue Metals, Lovisa, McPherson's, Mount Gibson, McMillan Shakespeare, Nearmap, Seven Group, Sonic Healthcare, St Barbara, Stockland, Vici...

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Australian Earnings Results: Altium Kept the ASX200 in the Red
February 18, 2020

By Deepta Bolaky  @DeeptaGOMarkets In the Australian share market, the focus remains on the earnings report. Most sectors were trading in negative territory with significant losses in the energy and information technology sectors. The technology sector was dragged by Altium Ltd. Altium is the world’s leading software company. It has helped a w...

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