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What you may have missed and why it matters

Olivier Desbarres

4X Global Research (4XGR)
January 3, 2020

Financial-market post-mortems for 2019 are out and the bottom line is that the trade was to be long pretty much everything – including US and global equities, bonds and commodities (bar natural gas) – but short equity and FX volatility.
Trading FX last year was indeed an exercis...

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