Thereafter, gold was no longer merely the safe haven trade, but began to respond as an equity momentum and dollar strength.
Oil ceased to be a headline business and was now a matter of the pricing of growth expectations. The forex pairs ceased to appear arbitrary and began to be put into perspective. Nothing of this was novel but the combination of everything before your eyes could be acted on. This is important to an Asian trader particularly.
A lot of our trading day is devoted to the response to what was made in the U.S. When you get up with a good or bad S&P 500 close, that tone transfers to the Asia market in terms of futures and currencies and commodities. Presence of a single platform on which that narrative can be observed in real time eliminates guesswork.
You are no longer sewing the story afterwards; you are watching it being sewed. Risk control is another advantage that has been underestimated.