For more than a decade, Gardel Trading has participated continuously in the Argentine financial media conversation — offering commentary, interviews and opinion pieces across the country's leading outlets.
From Bloomberg's global coverage of Argentine currency futures to opinion columns in Infobae, market analysis in El Cronista, and interviews in open TV and YouTube specials — the firm's perspective on price formation, positioning and liquidity has been sought out across the full media spectrum.
This is the archive.
Examines Argentina's unique currency market behavior where decades of economic trauma created unusual demand patterns.
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Analyzes the FX market reaction when the monetary authority withdrew from intervention and how positioning reshaped the curve.
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Analyzes how public endorsements have significantly influenced global investor confidence in Argentina.
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Argues against waiting indefinitely for "perfect conditions" before lifting the cepo and lays out the trade-offs of a delayed unification.
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Argues that postponing currency unification until after the elections undermines the disinflation program and FX market normalization.
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Confronts mainstream economic theory with Argentina's institutional reality and the distortions that decades of capital controls have produced.
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Examines the asymmetric cost of crushing inflation expectations through abrupt monetary tightening when credibility is still under construction.
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Reads the widening exchange rate gap as a leading indicator of stress and explains how it conditions reserve accumulation and pricing.
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Argues that fiscal and monetary anchors alone cannot offset the negative expectations bias that drives FX volatility in Argentina.
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Connects the legislative outcome with the credibility premium embedded in FX pricing and the path of the official exchange rate.
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Reports on informal dollar reaching new highs amid investor uncertainty about currency taxes and capital controls.
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Questions the orthodox prescription of using extreme interest rates to defend the peso and outlines the real-economy collateral damage.
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Explains why Argentines turn to the dollar as a structural store of value and what that means for monetary policy effectiveness.
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Interview with Cristian Gardel, president of Gardel Trading and Market Maker in USD/ARS futures at ROFEX.
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Media appearance discussing financial markets, currency dynamics, and trading perspectives.
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Written interview with Cristian Gardel on how political-economic analysis and methodological discipline produced an accurate dollar forecast.
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Currency traders pared expectations for a weaker peso after the central bank chief pledged to prevent devaluation and crack down on illegal markets.
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