Software Engineers for Strategy Architecture

1. Currencies
2. Commodities
3. Bonds
4. Stocks

and the chain reactions created by global events (inflation, growth rates, manufacturing, employment, interest rates etc).

101: Reasons to trade are all around us and countries worldwide regularly trade with each other due to differences in:

1. Technology: ability to turn their resources into outputs like goods and services
2. Resource Endowments: current natural resources or capital stock
3. Demand/Preferences: Chinese may demand more rice, Japanese more fish ...
4. Economies of Scale: unit production costs fall as the scale of production rises
5. Government Policy: tax and subsidies can shift prices

In a nutshell

The best trades come from markets:

1. where trends are dramatic, in one clear direction for an extended period of time
2. where specialist skills (geopolitical, risk management etc.) can be capitalized

The worst trades come from markets:

1. where moves typically last a few seconds or minutes
2. where potentially high value deal/information flows are obfuscated

Further drilling down into your ideas often reveal secondary nuggets of data that help correlate/forecast markets (beyond the scope of this introduction) but as a general rule, don't start a trading plan without a solid reason that you understand. Take your time to question everything and don't readily accept value from a 3rd party source.

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