Brexit GBP collapse a great FX example
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Brexit doesn’t happen so often – but it does happen. Many will remember the days when Maltese Lira, Cyprus Pound, and others joined the fledging Euro. During that time it was possible to have a 400% return in your account in 1 day due to planned exchange rates on the conversion day. Now probably a flood of copy cat referendums will sweep the EU, certainly by those already in the works in breakaway regions. As we’ve been saying for years, the Euro finally will be shattered into regional Euros, and mixed with a return to national currencies such as the French Franc, Spanish Peseta, Italian Lira, and so on. Probably, the Euro will always exist as accounting currency, and probably will always be accepted by merchants for payment in Europe. In many countries such as Russia for example, a 3 currency system already exists. Countries that don’t have strong domestic currencies often use foreign currencies as a benchmark, or a place to keep their savings in times of currency crisis. In most cases, this is primarily the US Dollar and secondly the Euro. Finally – to please all these conspiracy nuts; they are right – there is a plan to create a one world currency – but it’s not SDRs and it’s not the Amero, it’s the US Dollar. Last night, as results came in indicating a “Brexit” – the GBP collapsed. Forex involves a pair trading system – it’s not possible to just ‘sell’ the Great British Pound (GBP) – it must be ‘bought’ against another currency. That means, while the GBP was collapsing – other currencies were rising. So this event was net positive for most other currencies, most notably the US Dollar. See the below hourly chart of GBP/USD:
What this means is the GBP (Great British Pound) went down and the US Dollar (USD) went up. The USD is a net benefactor of many foreign market volatilities – not only in FX. Probably you’ve heard about ‘flight to safety’ – well since the CIA killed off the safety of this little canton north of Italy we call today “Switzerland” – the US is effectively the only ‘safe haven’ left. By eliminating offshore locations on a number of levels, it sucks money back into the USD which is a natural support of the USD – both domestically and USD accounts held overseas. The US has effectively an unsaid policy supporting the USD through foreign policy, including but not limited to military intervention, gunboat diplomacy, and a number of other techniques.
Hats off to all GBP FX providers that maintained superb trading conditions in a difficult volatile environment. Brexit trade was an excellent ‘stress test’ of what happens to when such existential events take place. FX markets functioned, and functioned well.
Day traders had many opportunities to profit, from an obvious one way trade down. Also this is …read more
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