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Top Fiat vs Gold in 2022: Focus on Inflation

Posted on by Aibek Burabayev

It is time for my traditional yearly post to find out which fiat could beat the conventional store of value this year.

Let us see below how you predicted the future back at the end of December 2021.

Poll Results

The U.S. dollar was again the favorite bet for many of you. The next choice was the British pound, likely because it finished second in 2021. Among the top three bets, the Canadian dollar was an interesting choice that could be justified by the previous top ranking.

This time I changed the list of currencies to include only the top 5 currencies based on real foreign exchange turnover according to the Bank for International Settlements as per the table below.

OTC Foreign Exchange Turnover By Currency

Source: Bank for International Settlements

The following top 5 fiat currencies are listed in the table above: U.S. dollar (USD), euro (EUR), Japanese yen (JPY), British pound (GBP) and Chinese yuan (CNY). Continue reading "Top Fiat vs Gold in 2022: Focus on Inflation" →

Where do you think USDJPY will go?

Posted on by Aibek Burabayev

The Japanese yen is the second largest component of the Dollar Index (DX). It occupies 13.6% of it.

The real interest rate differential is the main reason behind the current severe weakness of the yen. I have already visualized it for you in my earlier post in August.

The Bank of England (GBP, 3rd largest part of DX) and lately the European Central Bank (EUR, the largest component of DX) raised their interest rates significantly during the last meetings. The Bank of Japan (BOJ), the Japanese Central Bank has kept its negative rate of -0.1% since 2016. Moreover, it repeated that it would not hesitate to take extra easing measures if needed, falling out of a global wave of central banks tightening policy.

Why BOJ is so dovish? There are several reasons. One of them, the history of inflation as shown in the chart below.

JPN Interest Rate VS Inflation

Source: TradingView

Japan has had a chronic deflation since the 1990s after the asset bubble burst. We can see how short term spikes of inflation (orange line) into the positive territory were short-lived. The BOJ didn’t even touch the interest rate in spite of inflation that has soared to unseen levels of 3.7% in 2014. This time around, the inflation didn’t race to the same peak and as I wrote above, the BOJ thinks of an opposite – easing!

The BOJ governor Mr. Kuroda said in the summer “If we raise interest rates, the economy will move into a negative direction.” The Japanese Central Bank does not want to cause a recession as the economy is still fragile.

Maybe the next chart could clarify the logic of the BOJ. Continue reading "Where do you think USDJPY will go?" →

EUR/USD Update: Another Chance For Rally

Posted on by Aibek Burabayev

Aibek Burabayev - INO.com Contributor - Metals - EUR/USD


Last month I shared with you a trade setup for a single currency against the Fiat King. There were two charts posted: one was showing the global map and the other one was dedicated to the short-term trade setup.

You could have booked around 1.9% or more than 200 pips by the end of the March of my earlier trade idea, where I recommended buying the euro on the dips below 1.23. The ultimate target was set according to the Fibonacci ratio projections between the $1.2647 and the $1.3139 per 1 Euro. The risk was limited below the $1.2150, and it was not materialized since then.

Indeed, the Euro dipped below $1.23 down to the $1.2240 area as planned. But on the move to the upside, it only advanced as high as $1.2477 on the 27th of March still gaining more than you could have risked. The EUR/USD couldn’t overcome the earlier top beyond $1.2556, and it retreated after that.

In this post, I updated the EUR/USD chart for you as the short-term chart structure has changed and it offers another trading opportunity. Continue reading "EUR/USD Update: Another Chance For Rally" →

Don't Miss Another EUR/USD Rally

Posted on by Aibek Burabayev

Aibek Burabayev - INO.com Contributor - Metals - EUR/USD


I spotted a promising trading opportunity in the Foreign Exchange market, and I would like to share it with you today as the setup is ready.

Before that, I would like to give you some insight about the global map for the pair of the single currency against the king currency (EUR/USD) to let you know where other opportunities could emerge as time goes by.

Chart 1. EUR/USD Monthly: Make It Or Break It

EUR/USD
Chart courtesy of tradingview.com

On the chart above, we can see the magic power of trends highlighted in blue for the upmove and in red for the current long-lasting correction. The former already took 115 months to unfold exceeding the period of the preceding upmove (93 months) significantly. This is what we always should bear in mind about the nature of corrections – they last longer than the moves they retrace. Continue reading "Don't Miss Another EUR/USD Rally" →

Will Brazil Turn A Corner In 2017?

Posted on by Lior Alkalay

Lior Alkalay - INO.com Contributor


In Brazil, the year 2016 will no doubt go down in the history books as one of the worst the country has experienced. The Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, was impeached for the role they played in a bribery scandal and for illegally disguising the country’s real debt. Moreover, the Brazilian economy had its worst recession in more than half a century.

And yet, there are some encouraging signs that, at least as far as the economy and the Brazilian Real are concerned, the country might have turned a corner.

Brazilian Bonds Revival

In the months of January and February, when the political climate turned more and more chaotic and Brazilian growth tumbled, yields on Brazilian 10-year bonds were as high as 16.78% and CDS prices, which measure the likelihood of a sovereign debt default, jumped to 7%. One would then expect that, from this point onwards, and especially in recent months with the prospect of a Fed’s tightening weighing on bond markets across the globe, the already fragile Brazilian government bonds would experience an utter meltdown, even to the extent of risking an actual default. But what happened instead was interesting. While bonds across the world were tanking and yields surging (bond yields move in reverse, relative to prices) amid the Fed’s tightening, Brazilian bonds staged an impressive rally, and yields on 10-year bonds fell from their highs back in January to as low as 11.4% today. Unsurprisingly, this was followed by an impressive rebound for the Brazilian Real. Continue reading "Will Brazil Turn A Corner In 2017?" →