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Friday, July 3, 2026

FIG 01 — Command Centre

FIG 04 — Session Clock

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FIG 02 — Today's Calendar

  • 08:00 UTCCHFEconomic Sentiment Index—
  • 08:30 UTCGBPMortgage Approvals—
  • 08:30 UTCGBPM4 Money Supply MoM—
  • 08:30 UTCGBPBoE Consumer Credit—
  • 08:30 UTCGBPMortgage Lending—
  • 08:30 UTCGBPNet Lending to Individuals MoM—
Full calendar →

FIG 03 — Top Stories

Breaking04:12 UTCstocks

Asian technology stocks extend sell-off with SoftBank down 10% as AI plays take a hit

Chinese internet stocks listed in Hong Kong bucked the broader regional weakness with Tencent, Meituan, Baidu and Kuaishou all trading higher.

  • Breaking04:10 UTCstocks

    SK Hynix shares tank as exponential earnings growth fails to satisfy AI-charged expectations

  • Breaking03:43 UTCcrypto

    South Korea plans stablecoin rules as opposition pushes crypto tax repeal

  • 03:37 UTCcommodities

    Gold prices steady ahead of Fed decision; oil rebound revives inflation concerns

  • 03:26 UTCcrypto

    Celsius-linked Bitcoin miner Ionic Digital gains 26% in Nasdaq debut

Full news →

FIG 07 — Ideas on the Desk

All ideas →
USDJPYLongDaily

Yen shorts ride the widening rate gap into FOMC

Entry
147.80 - 148.50
Stop
145.90
Target
152.50
R:R ~2.3:1
HGShortDaily

Copper longs at a 3-year crowd extreme ahead of Politburo

Entry
4.48 - 4.55
Stop
4.66
Target
4.15
R:R ~3:1
DXYLongDaily

Dollar leans into a hawkish FOMC repricing

Entry
97.30 - 97.60
Stop
96.75
Target
99.20
R:R ~2.6:1

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FIG 06 — Speculator Positioning

  • Euro FX62% short
  • E-mini S&P 50076% short
  • Bitcoin75% short
  • Gold89% long
Large speculators · latest CFTC COT report

FIG 05 — Heatmap

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EURUSD+0.00%
GBPUSD+0.00%
USDJPY0.00%
XAUUSD0.00%
BTCUSD0.00%
ETHUSD0.00%
CL+0.00%
DXY0.00%

FIG — LATEST GUIDES

Guides & Analysis

Playbooks

The Monthly Data Gauntlet: Trading Around NFP, CPI and PCE

Three US releases reset rate expectations every month. Here's what each one measures, when it lands, and how to structure a trading window around it instead of getting run over by it.

8 min readMacro

Oil Shocks and the Rate-Expectations Feedback Loop

A jump in crude doesn't just raise petrol prices — it reprices inflation, which reprices the Fed, which reprices the dollar, gold and equities. Here's the transmission chain traders watch in real time.

7 min readMacro

Reading Gold Through Real Rates and the Dollar

Gold has no yield and no earnings, so what actually drives it? Two things above all — real interest rates and the dollar. Here's the framework that explains both the record highs and the pullbacks.

7 min read

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