by Anne Bannerman | Mar 4, 2026
I’ve explained before that I don’t like trading when it comes to war scenarios, and it looks like a lot of other people have rushed to take their remaining risk off the table – unless, of course, they’re dyed-in-the-wool, Gung-ho oil speculators. Last week, before the...
by Anne Bannerman | Feb 26, 2026
If we’re honest, this wasn’t a dramatic week. It was one of those weeks that makes you lean back in your chair and think rather than jump up and trade. Nothing blew up. Nothing melted up. But I could feel the tone shifting slightly. And when tone shifts, I pay...
by Anne Bannerman | Feb 19, 2026
For much of February, markets have felt as bleak as the weather — but the bigger story isn’t the gloom. It’s the reset. Towards the end of January, we saw traders leaning aggressively in the same direction: long metals, long momentum, long “fear trades.” Then, as the...
by Anne Bannerman | Feb 12, 2026
What we’ve witnessed over the past week is a recalibration. A reminder that liquidity can thin out faster than expected. That safe havens can reverse. That risk assets can detach from their stories. And that momentum, no matter how powerful, is never permanent. What...
by Anne Bannerman | Feb 5, 2026
Sometimes the market gives you exactly what you deserve – and recently, it handed gold and Bitcoin traders an absolute masterclass in the difference between a rally and a reckoning. The past few weeks delivered one of the most vicious reversals in modern financial...
