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Fed Decision Opens Door to Weaker Dollar
On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged and reiterated that interest rates would remain low for "an extended period." In its statement, it also mentioned that inflation remains subdued, and that the weak employment situation seems to have stabilized. While...
Fed Concerned About Housing and Employer Reluctance to Increase Payroll
On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged and reiterated that interest rates would remain low for “an extended period”. In its statement, it also mentioned that inflation remains subdued, and that the weak employment situation seems to have stabilized. While...
The Trend Trader For Futures Trading on Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite futures markets. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling...
The Trend Trader For ETF Trading on Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite ETF markets. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling weakness....
The Trend Trader For Stock Trading on Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite stocks. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling weakness. Before...
The Trend Trader For Forex Trading on Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite forex markets. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling weakness....
Stock market valuation is stretched on long-term basis
With the S&P 500 Index and a number of other benchmark stock market indices flirting with cycle highs, I will be monitoring things very closely over the next few days to see if the market’s overbought condition spells more downside potential than an expected consolidation. Or will the Index...
U.S. Dollar Trades Lower Ahead of FOMC policy Meeting Boosting April Gold Prices Overnight
The U.S. Dollar is trading lower ahead of this afternoon’s FOMC policy meeting. This weakness is helping to boost April Gold prices overnight. The recent break in gold stopped short of the late February bottom at $1088.50 to maintain the uptrend. Buyers came in on Monday to support prices after...
Euro Finishes Weaker; Uncertainty over Bailout Pressures Market
The Euro finished lower on reports that a few Euro Region finance ministers are rejecting the idea of a bailout for Greece. Over the weekend, ahead of the start of today’s two-day meeting in Brussels, German Finance Minister Schaeuble and French Finance Minister Lagarde downplayed the...
Author Michael Lewis on Wall Street’s delusion
CBS’s “60 Minutes” has just spent two days interviewing Michael Lewis at his home in California. Lewis, of course, is the author of Liar’s Poker, The New New Thing, Moneyball, The Blind Side, Panic, Home Game and hot-off-the-press The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. His new book explains...
Outlook for financial markets, according to the charts
I often refer to the technical analysis of Adam Hewison (INO.com) to provide insight into the most likely near-term movements of financial markets. He has just produced four short presentations on various markets. As my day is chock-a-block with meetings today, these links are posted without...
Russia expanding its influence
With the United States preoccupied with two wars, Russia is taking advantage of an opportunity to expand its influence and control over neighboring states. The first phase is nearly complete, and Stratfor analyst Marko Papic says pressure now is growing on the Baltics. As an aside, “extortion by...
The Trend Trader For Futures Trading on Tuesday, March 16, 2010
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite futures markets. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling...
The Trend Trader For ETF Trading on Tuesday, March 16, 2010
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite ETF markets. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling weakness....
The Trend Trader For Stock Trading on Tuesday, March 16, 2010
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite stocks. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling weakness. Before...
