Senior Market Strategist
Russell Shor is a Senior Market Strategist at FXCM, having been promoted to the role in 2025 in recognition of his depth of insight and consistent delivery of high-impact market analysis. He originally joined FXCM in October 2017 as a Senior Market Specialist.
Russell holds an Honours Degree in Economics from the University of South Africa, is a certified FMVA®, and a full member of the Society of Technical Analysts (UK). With over 20 years of experience in financial markets, his work is renowned for its clarity, precision, and strategic value across asset classes.
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The daily CHN50 chart is trading in its bullish area between the upper blue and red bands. Maintaining the upper channel increases the likelihood of price appreciation. The red Bollinger bands are moving in opposite directions, which shows a growing volatility. The hourly chart shows the stochastic has crossed up (aqua ellipse). A move towards the 80+ region (blue arrow) will suggest a positive momentum. A cross by the trend-following…
The monthly chart of FXCM’s CHN50 CFD is showing value tendencies. It spent 12 months in its bearish channel (notwithstanding a temporary spike in June 2022), between its lower blue and red bands. The current candle is attempting to move into its neutral channel between the blue bands (green vertical rectangle). This is bullish. The monthly RSI still needs to cross above 50 into the indicator’s bullish area (blue arrow).…
- Friday’s NFP. - Job data shows deceleration in job growth, moderation in wages, participation rate ticked up. - Services PMI. - PMI shows contraction. US is a service-based economy. First time since June 2020 it contracted. - Factory Orders biggest decline since June 2020. - FOMC minutes were hawkish, no member sees rate cut this year. - December CPI is released on Thursday. Most likely moderated, but all eyes…
FXCM’s Brent and WTI CFDs, UKOil and USOil, have moved into their neutral zone between the blue bands. This is a movement of strength. China is opening its borders for the first time in 3 years. This is part of its new Covid-19 policy.
Friday’s job report showed a slowdown in job growth and a moderation in wage inflation. In response, the US 10-year real rate declined, with the greenback following.
Yesterday, the USDOLLAR pushed into its bullish channel between its upper blue and red bands (blue rectangle). The RSI also crossed into its bullish area above 50 (green rectangle). The greenback rallied on the strong ADP data, which pushed the US 2-year yields up around 11bps
The US30 dropped 165 points yesterday. This followed the ADP surprise to the upside, showing 235K jobs were created (153K - forecast). This prompted renewed rate hike fears, given the Fed concern over wage inflation.
Oil has been clobbered over the last two trading days. UKOil, FXCM’s Brent CFD, and USOil, its WTI CFD, have both fallen into their bearish channels between the lower blue and red bands. If the red Bollinger bands expand, volatility will be increasing
Gold continues to climb, notching up prices last seen in June of last year. The precious metal is positioned between its upper blue and red bands on its daily chart. This is its bullish channel. Its daily stochastic has crossed above 80 (green rectangle). Maintaining these levels will imply that a bullish underlying momentum is present and the greater the prospect for higher prices. Gold’s strength corresponds with dollar weakness…
The GER30 daily chart is trading in its bullish area between the upper blue and red bands. The Bollinger bands are expanding (black ellipses). This suggests increasing volatility. The hourly chart on the right has underlying support at the central pivot, P. If the trend-following EMAs and momentum based stochastic cross up (green ellipses), this will be viewed as a bullish development. If stochastic makes its way above the 80…
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