Chris Mcmahon

• Dollar recovery: Real or illusionary?

  By Chris Mcmahon  |  March 19, 2009

  With the U.S. dollar index trading in the low 70s through much of 2008, the Bush administration’s so called ‘strong dollar’ policy had become a running joke. But the weak U.S. dollar served an

• On the art of a trade

  By Chris Mcmahon  |  February 26, 2009

  Before Jason Alan Jankovsky became a forex trader, he traded Chicago Big Board corn, calling his orders in to his broker. But his trading didn’t really take off until he began to understand the

• 2009 equities outlook: Taking stock

  By Chris Mcmahon  |  February 12, 2009

  As Americans headed into the holidays, the National Bureau of Economic Research threw a wet blank on the season by acknowledging in early December that the United States was in a recession and had

• Block exchange launch

  By Chris Mcmahon  |  February 11, 2009

  The platform is designed to maximize access to liquidity and improve execution quality of the U.S. equity block trading market by allowing non-displayed liquidity to anonymously access displayed and

• KRX nationalized

  By Chris Mcmahon  |  February 11, 2009

  KRX was privatized in 1988; however, the Korean government is now claiming the exchange is a de facto public institution because it derives more than 50% of its revenue from a monopolistic business,

• Consolidation hits FX

  By Chris Mcmahon  |  February 11, 2009

  Prompted by aggressive new capitalization requirements and the threat of greater regulatory oversight, consolidation in the forex market continues, most recently with FXCM’s acquisition of the U.S.

• Gold bugging

  By Chris Mcmahon  |  February 11, 2009

  Since New Years, gold prices have increased more than $100 per ounce, trading to $915 in early February. Tom Hartmann, broker analyst for Altavest Worldwide Trading Inc., says there has been a

• Euro underachiever

  By Chris Mcmahon  |  February 11, 2009

  After recovering more than half of its losses in December from the bear move off of its all-time high, the euro is declining again, dropping from 147.19 on Dec. 19 to 127.02 on Feb. 2. “After that

• Bonds correct

  By Chris Mcmahon  |  February 11, 2009

  While Treasuries have pulled back from their all-time highs of 141-28, they are still trading at elevated levels. “People suddenly realized that the lights still come on and 93% of us are still

• Failure is not an option

  By Chris Mcmahon  |  January 14, 2009

  With the global equity and commodity markets in turmoil, U.S. government securities have offered a safe haven for capital, drawing in more and more domestic and non-U.S. buyers, who have pushed