To sum up, this blog post aims to enlighten readers about paradigm shifts, their importance, and how they can be successfully implemented for personal and societal growth. The Point of Control (POC) marks the price level within a specific timeframe where the highest trading volume occurred, representing the fairest price agreement between buyers and sellers during that period. Flanking the POC, the Value Area (VA) encompasses approximately 70% of the session’s total volume, bounded by the Value Area High (VAH) and Value Area Low (VAL). These zones identify where the majority of transactions occurred, establishing clear parameters for price acceptance versus rejection. Paradigm’s Delta-1 Spreads are streaming order books that allow traders to easily trade the spread between various Delta-1 instruments such as spot, perpetual, and futures contracts. This feature enables the simultaneous purchase and sale of related contracts, allowing techniques like arbitrage and hedging.

Having some amount of China could make sense if it’s in a reasonable allocation. For example, having some 10 to 15 percent of a portfolio in a mix of emerging Asian assets could be appropriate. Management of the exchange rate and the money supply are not done by the nation’s central bank, if it has a central monetary authority. In addition to a pegged exchange rate, a currency board is also generally required to maintain reserves of the underlying foreign currency.

• Global business systems—the footprint of factories, suppliers, warehouses, distribution centers, and the entire apparatus of making things and getting them to market—have long since been optimized for efficiency.
• It was a time when the brick-and-mortar model was the norm, with transactions and customer interactions predominantly occurring in physical locations.
• Delta divergence represents one of the most powerful leading indicators available in footprint analysis, often signaling potential reversals before traditional technical indicators.

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The moral of the story for all countries is that you can’t be in a strategic competition with a country in which you save in their currency because they’ll always win that battle. Inflation protection can partially come in the form of inflation-indexed bonds. This eventually forces countries to bring back faith in the currency one way or another. This also tends to come at a point where there have been too many other types of promises made that can’t be kept because hard currency flows aren’t sufficient (from taxes or other sources of revenue).

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The third critical step requires identifying large-volume clusters and understanding how they relate to price extremes. Finally, scan for pronounced volume imbalances at key technical levels, particularly stacked imbalances across multiple price points. Also known as the Total Volume Footprint, this chart displays the cumulative volume at each price level without differentiating between buyers and sellers. While it sacrifices the bid/ask detail, it excels at identifying high-volume nodes (HVNs).

For the 11 uncertain bets, the stakes are even higher, with about 76 percent of trade value at risk on average. Sellers, buyers, financiers, and logistics firms active in these corridors will want to carefully manage risks given the potential for volatility. In the following, we examine these three scenarios and identify the changes that could come to trade corridors and sectors.

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You cannot risk losing so much on one trade that it wipes out your gains on other positions. The most commonly talked about emerging market is China simply because it’s the second-largest economy and has the second-largest capital markets globally. These will help you be balanced beyond just the classic stocks and nominal bonds mix, which can diversify relatively well with respect to growth. The commodities, gold, and tangible assets can help diversify with respect to this. Central banks can create money and change borrowing a look at the current trading paradigm and lending incentives but they can’t distribute money. They can only work through interest rates and a select few financial asset markets (US Treasuries, agency mortgage-backed securities, and sometimes corporate credit and ETFs during emergencies).

Semiconductors are among the industries that could be most affected by geopolitical dynamics and trade shifts. The company wanted not only to defend its business but also to accelerate growth—and to do it all at pace. Some signs of such an evolution have been evident since 2017, as big trading economies have adapted to shifts in geopolitics. These new geopolitical dynamics add an unpredictable element to the steadier forces of economic growth (see sidebar “Geopolitical distance”). Execution requires patience—traders should wait for additional confirmation beyond the divergence alone. Typical entry triggers include a break of a short-term trendline, a reversal candle pattern at the extreme, or a flip in delta direction.

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Entries should be taken on confirmation of rejection, with stop-losses placed beyond the absorption zone. The profit-taking target typically extends to the next significant support or resistance level. The psychological principle driving this strategy involves trapped traders—market participants who entered positions late as the absorption occurred. When price reverses against these trapped participants, their frantic covering accelerates the move, creating favorable risk-reward opportunities for traders who identified the absorption early. The Delta Footprint simplifies the presentation by displaying only the net difference between buying and selling volume at each level. This makes it easier to quickly assess market control and identify strength or weakness at key support and resistance levels without having to analyze two separate columns.

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• There was essentially a supply shock at the same time you need more spending.
• Paradigm shifts come with challenges, often arising from fear, resistance, or lack of clarity.
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As a result, China would likely maintain its role as a key exporter in the global economy. Conventional wisdom suggests that emerging markets would benefit from a diversification scenario, but our model shows that this isn’t necessarily the case. Emerging markets already integrated into these networks stand to gain, but those outside remain on the sidelines. As a result, we see limited upside for growth in emerging-market exports relative to the baseline. The interplay between volume and price within footprint charts reveals critical information about market intent and potential direction.

Because these interfere with the ability to have an independent monetary policy and the ability to create money and credit. This is when a country goes on the dollar even though they can’t produce dollars (because only the Fed can do that) and therefore don’t have monetary autonomy to produce more or less money in light of their own conditions. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was the biggest upheaval for commodity markets since 1973. The inflation is likely to stick as people’s investment and non-investment behaviors change in combination with continued easy policy. So it’s been a purposeful policy to try to generate more inflation to avoid deflation, disinflation, and the stagnant wages of all of these challenges.

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In other articles, we looked at the history of the past several hundreds years and the arcs of the Dutch, British, and American empires and how that impacted their currencies and asset markets. But the main difference is that we’ve never had a global currency that’s been so powerful in such a financially globalized world as the US dollar is today. You had sanctions on different countries and various markets that closed and stay closed for years.

Absorption and Trapped Traders Strategy

So let’s get out of the forecasting paradigm and approach markets from what I call the trading paradigm. Here, you’re not trying to predict what’s going to happen, and you’re not personally deciding when and where to get in. This led to lots of portfolios being stuffed with stocks and bonds, such as 60/40 and other equity-centric approaches. The risk premiums in holding Chinese assets are quite high given the risk surrounding them, but diversification appropriately sized is probably better than not having it at all. China’s stock market suffered with the Russia-Ukraine invasion, as traders and market participants factored in that what’s happening with Russia could easily happen to China as well.