Jasper Lawler

5 days ago | fxstreet.com | Jasper Lawler

How will the markets react to war? The US has joined Israel in its aerial attack on Iran, bombing its 3 major nuclear sites. The situation is fluid with the possibility of Iran retaliating against the US. This is a big escalation over Israel’s airstrikes on Iran that we wrote about last week in week 24. As we suspected, oil prices have added to gains over the past week. Investors usually react to war with a flight to safety.

1 week ago | fxstreet.com | Jasper Lawler

Have you been paying attention to commodities? People are talking about the next ‘commodity supercycle’. That’s a fun word for all commodity prices going up a lot. The theory goes that it started in 2020 in the aftermath of the pandemic but it’s really only been gold that has been rising since then. Now the other commodities are starting to wake up.. In last week’s report (week 23), we talked about the EPIC breakout in silver.

2 weeks ago | fxstreet.com | Jasper Lawler

There has been a massive, huge, epic! breakout in the price of silver. Last week, silver (XAG/USD) hit $36 per oz, its highest level in 13 years. Silver has been a top performer in 2025, now up more than 20% year to date. Although it is still lagging gold, which has powered higher by about 28%.

3 weeks ago | fxstreet.com | Jasper Lawler

Everyday there are opportunities to buy and sell in the markets. You can count the pips between market highs and lows and dream of the windfalls they could have bestowed on you. But just because the market has moved, doesn’t mean to say you could or should have traded it. For the most part, what we as traders are doing is ‘directional trading’ - we areChoosing a direction the market will move andThen trying to time itYou must have a consistent method for doing both.

1 month ago | fxstreet.com | Jasper Lawler

After a fantastic March and April, I have had a rough couple of weeks trading. And that’s usually how it goes - that’s why I have a protocol to deal with it. Directional/volatile markets are the best friend of momentum trading. Likewise, range-bound/volatile markets are great for reversion-to-the-mean traders. Investors tend to prefer lower volatility. March and early April had strong trends especially in forex markets. But heading into May it's been more choppy. My style of trading uses momentum.