Wall Street Momentum Traders Are Having Best Run in Three Years
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange.
Photographer: Michael Nagle/BloombergA lot of things got worse in September. The government shut down, US job prospects dimmed, and debates around central bank autonomy grew deafening.
And yet in commodities, stocks and foreign exchange markets, the month will go down as a time when a simple bet that winning trades continue to win saw its best stretch in three years.