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Robert Petrucci

Robert Petrucci brings over 30 years of experience in the financial markets and has been writing about them for nearly two decades. He specializes in risk management and delivers insightful analysis across Forex, equities, indices, and commodities. Beyond markets, Robert is also known to explore politics and sports, and he is a co-host of The Risk Reward Show, a podcast available on all major platforms.
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Behavioral Sentiment
Robert Petrucci

Conflicted Trading: Singapore Dollar and Federal Reserve Considerations

USD/SGD: Conflicting Desires From the Federal Reserve and Financial Institutions The world of Forex is about to grow murkier in the coming days as shadows loom over financial institutions regarding their near-term decisions as they try to gain clarity regarding what appears to be confused and concerning mid-term outlooks for…

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AMT Markets
Robert Petrucci

Bad Timing for President Trump May Equal Good Trading Opportunities

You Don’t Have to be a Buyer in the Current Marketplace in Order to Profit There are moments when the markets are calm and then there are these times. It is beginning to look like increasingly bad timing for President Trump and his administration’s hope to keep WTI Crude Oil…

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Behavioral Sentiment
Robert Petrucci

NZD/USD: Elevated Value for Kiwi Coming Within Sight of Mid-Term Prices

The NZD/USD is around 0.59550, last Friday’s highs near 0.59885 vicinity flirted with mid-term highs The NZD/USD remains a speculative currency pair that offers fast results and velocity. The relatively low liquidity of the NZD/USD compared to the upper tier of major currency pairs allows for sudden bursts of movements…

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Behavioral Sentiment
Robert Petrucci

Bond Yields: The Wheel Has Not Been Rediscovered

Unintended Consequences: USD and Gold will now get their turn in the casino because of Scott Bessent’s QA Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s decision to begin injecting money into U.S Treasuries needs to be looked at by Forex traders. There is reason to suspect USD centric weakness may prevail moving forward. Yesterday’s…

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Behavioral Sentiment
Robert Petrucci

Forex: Compressed Tight Realms Signaling Nervous Reactions

Sentiment Storms as Financial Institutions Remain Unsure about Outlooks Price action in the USD/SGD has continued to demonstrate a rather significant turn downwards since the last week of June. The price of the currency pair is near 1.27800 as of this writing and is traversing near values seen the 1st…

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Assets
Robert Petrucci

Gold Looks Oversold in What Appears to be a Vulnerable Global Market

Quick Thoughts on Why Gold Should Remain a Friend Did you stop paying attention to Gold after it stumbled from its record highs in late January? Was it no longer interesting because it wasn’t churning like an invincible machine upwards? Is Gold boring because it has produced sluggish results the…

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Assets
Robert Petrucci

Apologia: Confronting Market Opinions and Pointing Out Wrongs

The Markets Can and Will Harm You, Can You Survive? The U.S Dollar Index is back to where it was trading on Friday the 13th of March. (Yes, a Friday the 13th). Literally a week and half after the Iranian war started from a trading perspective. We are almost half…

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Assets
Robert Petrucci

The Not So Coincidental World of Google and WTI Crude Oil

Energy and Commodities in a World Where Legacy and Infrastructure Collide Google (Alphabet) finished yesterday’s trading near $ 317.69, as of this moment WTI Crude Oil is around $88.50. It might seem rather odd to pair the two into the same paragraph, but this is not a coincidence. Both are…

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Artificial Intelligence
Robert Petrucci

Thoughts on the USD/SGD, Cautious Broad Market Sentiment and the Weekend

USD/SGD: Currently a Hope and Prayers Barometer in Global Forex The USD/SGD is near the 1.29110 vicinity as of this writing. Financial institutions apparently have combined their cautious outlooks in the broad Forex market as USD centric strength continues to leak into sentiment, while their instincts technically demonstrate that over…

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