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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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Robert Petrucci

Forex: The Art of Not Making Sense and Accepting Price Values

Forex: The Art of Not Making Sense and Accepting Price Values Retail traders are likely learning the hard way that attempting to trade in Forex for the moment is more than dangerous, it is expensive. The U.S Consumer Price Index numbers yesterday met expectations, which essentially allows the Federal Reserve

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Robert Petrucci

Return to Normal Market Conditions and a Trump Outlook

Return to Normal Market Conditions and a Trump Outlook Retail speculators can now expect a return to calm and clear financial market outlooks, knowing that potential influences from new U.S policies will start to be considered. With the U.S elections in the rear view mirror and a Trump mandate delivered

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Central Banks
Robert Petrucci

Impolite Opinion: BRICS and a Western Loss of Power Part 2

Impolite Opinion: BRICS and a Western Loss of Power Part 2 BRICS Future Members and Potential Strangleholds The West is moving too slowly as if stuck in an abyss of indifference, this while BRICS adds members, including the prospects of Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and others to participate. The ability of

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AMT Markets
Robert Petrucci

Forex: Dangerous Triggers Abound for Inexperienced Speculators

Forex: Dangerous Triggers Abound for Inexperienced Speculators While the U.S jobs reports via the Non-Farm Employment Change and Average Hourly Earnings will grab attention today, and the Advance GDP this Wednesday and inflation numbers yesterday were important. Institutional trading focus in many respects will be elsewhere, behavioral sentiment and the

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Robert Petrucci

Impolite Opinion: BRICS Long-Term Plans & Implications Part 1

Impolite Opinion: BRICS Long-Term Plans & Implications Part 1 The global Forex market is spastic and many major currencies are traversing within weaker whipsaw value ranges against the USD. The currency pairs are trading in price bands seen before the Fed cut its Federal Funds Rate by 0.50 basis points

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Robert Petrucci

Interest Rate Cuts and Cautious USD Centric Gusts in Forex

Interest Rate Cuts and Cautious USD Centric Gusts in Forex U.K inflation data this morning came in well below estimates, which almost assures the Bank of England will cut their Official Bank Rate on the 7th of November by at least 0.25 basis points. Tomorrow the European Central Bank will

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Central Banks
Robert Petrucci

AMT Top Ten Miscellaneous Interpretations on the 13th of Oct

AMT Top Ten Miscellaneous Interpretations on the 13th of Oct 10. Language: The French word histoirie includes both history and story via its English interpretation. The French usage conveys the acknowledgement that history is often subjective and a story written with an opinion which may or may not be the

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Robert Petrucci

Hurricanes, Wars, U.S Election and Inflation Reports Noise

Hurricanes, Wars, U.S Election and Inflation Reports Noise Between hurricanes, wars, the coming U.S election what could possibly go wrong for day traders? Oh wait, the U.S will also issue their Consumer Price Index reports today to throw some fuel onto the Federal Reserve outlooks of financial institutions. As the

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Robert Petrucci

Trading Risks: Easy to be Nervous Now, But Calm is Needed

Trading Risks: Easy to be Nervous Now, But Calm is Needed Simply put it is too easy to be nervous when contemplating the markets if you are a day trader. Today the Non-Farm Employment Change data will be published in the U.S and the Middle East conflict continues to reverberate.

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Robert Petrucci

Trading with Tomorrow in Mind as Risk Adverse Emotions Grow

Trading with Tomorrow in Mind as Risk Adverse Emotions Grow Speculators by nature have to be optimistic about perceived outcomes. As risk adverse conditions hit global markets both financial institutions and traders are still engaged with tomorrow and the days ahead. Tomorrow is definitely going to happen. Calmer heads at

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Robert Petrucci

Risk Appetite: Forex and Equities and Cautious Optimism

Risk Appetite: Forex and Equities and Cautious Optimism Day traders can clearly see that risk appetite has taken hold of behavioral sentiment early this week. USD centric price action has created highs for the British Pound, South African Rand, Singapore Dollar and a host of other major currencies paired against

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AMT Markets
Robert Petrucci

Fed Plays Catch Up and Sets a Calm Table for Day Traders

Fed Plays Catch Up and Sets a Calm Table for Day Traders The Fed essentially played a game of catch up on Wednesday when they cut the Federal Funds Rate by 0.50%. The interest rate cut was bigger than AMT expected because of the Fed’s rather cautious stance the past

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