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07 APR clock 14:01

QT: The Fed wants to pull out US$1.1 trillion per year from markets! What could this mean for investors and traders?

Investors and traders worldwide for several months now have been obsessing over how the Fed intends to go about its 'quantitative tightening' a.k.a. QT. Hold up! What even is QT? To understand QT, first we must have an idea of QE (quantitative easing).
“Buy on the cannons, sell on the trumpets”?
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30 MAR clock 15:25

“Buy on the cannons, sell on the trumpets”?

This well-worn phrase is meant to go back to the early 1800s and is attributed to London financier Lord Rothschild which suggests that the start of a war is a good time to invest in the stock market. Conversely, the end of a war is a good time to sell.