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Protect and Preserve Capital In These...
Between August 6 and August 26 last year, the market dropped 713 points. It seemed precipitous at the time. The factors affecting the market drop were the upcoming U.S. elections focusing on the enormous U.S. deficit and debt, the talk of Eurozone sovereign debt default (Greece, Portugal, and I...
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Chicago Wheat Futures Poised to Rally in...
Soft red winter wheat futures at the Chicago Board of Trade have been trading sideways at lower price levels for nearly two months. The key "outside markets" have had a major influence on the wheat market and other grains. These key outside markets include the value of the U.S. dollar versus the ...
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VantagePoint Analysis: More Downside Price...
February gold futures on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange closed sharply lower and near the session low Monday, hit a fresh four-week low and saw a bearish downside "breakout" from a trading range on the daily chart. Bearish "outside markets" - lower crude oil prices and a f...
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Dow Futures Likely to See Corrective Rally Soon
The stock market has been trading sideways in a trading range at lower price levels for three weeks. But I tend to be a pretty optimistic person, which you have to be to live in Buffalo, S.D. So when I look at a VantagePoint Intermarket Analysis Software (www.TraderTech.com) chart for the Dow Jon...
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Euro Currency Futures Likely to Continue...
You may find it a little unusual that someone living in Buffalo, S.D., would be paying much attention to what happens in the foreign exchange markets. But markets are more global than ever today, and I watch the currencies closely for what might happen to the U.S. dollar, which is close to my hea...
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After Rally, Crude Oil Due for Corrective...
Where I live in Buffalo, S.D., crude oil is a pretty important commodity. I suspect it is where you live, too, even though prices are nothing like they were last summer. Instead of $145 last July, now we're talking about $45 a barrel crude oil as if it were cheap, but that's actually more than 20...
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June Gold Futures Likely To See More Selling...
Even though we are way out here on the upper Plains, we keep a pretty close eye on a number of markets because we realize many of them are interrelated and influence those markets that most affect us. One of the favorites we watch is gold. Maybe it's because we remember "there's-gold-in-them-thar...
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June Gold Futures Likely To See More Selling...
Even though we are way out here on the upper Plains, we keep a pretty close eye on a number of markets because we realize many of them are interrelated and influence those markets that most affect us. One of the favorites we watch is gold. Maybe it's because we remember "there's-gold-in-them-thar...
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U.S. Dollar Index to See More Near-Term...
My home is far removed from Wall Street and the nation’s financial centers, but the value of the U.S. dollar is important to me – in fact, to all U.S. citizens. It’s not just the dollar itself but the effect that its value has on all the other markets that interest me. The U.S. dollar is a key "o...
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TraderEd's Trading Secrets
Secret 1: Double Tops and Bottoms This is a reversal pattern. The advance that follows a rally and reaction fails to take the price significantly above the previous rally high. If the second peak does top out well above its predecessor, then the double-top call is invalidated. Assuming we have a ...
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