👀 Blue Guardian Announces Major New Sponsorship Deals, PipFarm Now Welcoming US Traders

Hi guys, it’s Kieran! Another crazy week is in the books, with the world shifting beneath our feet on a daily basis. A market bloodbath last week but a weekend Trump tweet has flipped the script and we are back “risk-on”. Never a dull moment. Let’s get prepared for the week ahead.

📢 Prop Firm Industry News

Blue Guardian has announced two large sponsorship deals, which pushes the industry further into mainstream consciousness. Firstly with football (soccer) team Birmingham City:

They are also sponsoring Chris Eubank Jr for his upcoming fight against Connor Benn. This fight is a big deal in the UK, so this kind of exposure for the industry is great news.

PipFarm is now accepting traders from the US and are the first firm to offer cTrader to US traders. I get asked a lot who is my favorite firm and for sure it’s Pipfarm. They have a very unique offering with XP, quests & powerups, have a fantastic owner, are trader friendly, and are not looking for ways to fail you. I have been with them since the beginning and can’t say enough good things about them, and now US traders can join!

They ran their monthly roundup stream on Friday which is worth your time, and you can check out all the details of their firm, programs, quests & powerups here.

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🕜 Economic calendar

Here are this week’s red folder news events. US Non-Farm payrolls on Friday will be interesting, and watch out for the “All-Day” Euro Summit on Thursday, as some firms will breach you for trading any Euro pairs/European indices all day, so check with your firm, or don’t trade at all on Thursday.

📈 The Macro View

We made it.

We’ve been tracking this all the way down, and seemingly after last week’s major sell-off across all risk assets, we have now reached ‘Extreme Fear’ territory. Contrarian equity long plays have historically worked well from these levels (Think S&P500, Nasdaq, DAX). Trump might have flipped the script right on cue… or we may still have one major wash-out to go. Either way, things should get interesting from here.

Also right on cue.

Positioning on Goldman Sach’s Prime book has finally flipped negative meaning lots of equity longs were liquidated last week. Stops were hit, and traders have started to capitulate. Again, this doesn’t mean its time to full port long, but statistically these are the conditions where long equity plays historically have yielded returns.

Seasonality says one final push lower, then it’s off to the races.

S&P500 seasonality on a 20 year lookback, has played out pretty well so far this year with a sideways start to the year, a decent sized sell off in Feb, and the start of a big rally around the second week of March. If you’ve been holding onto longs throughout this year, conditions look soon to be getting more favorable. Finally 😀 

Crypto… This is Trump’s market now

Bitcoin -28% off it’s highs and all it takes is a single Trump tweet and we are +10% on a Sunday afternoon. Strategically timed? Probably. Last week crypto saw record outflows on a monumental scale. A lot of people sold, and are probably kicking themselves today. Nevertheless, now we know Trump is able and willing to pump these markets whenever he wants.

OK guys that’s it for this week. Stay safe out there and see ya next week!

Kieran

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