Author: Scott Hoffman

Greek stocks and bonds were higher overnight; the Greek central bank governor Provopoulos said he’s confident Greece’s government will meet its “very ambitious” deficit-reduction goals.  There were...

Yesterday’s discount rate hike was out of left field.  The fact that they raised isn’t really the surprise, but the timing was.  They made the announcement in conjunction with the normal money supply...

Sovereign fears are increasing again; the German/Greek 10 Year spread is wider this morning. Greece will attempt to sell a new bond next week, should be fun.  The Obama administration made more comments about China and the...

According to the Taylor Technique, today was a Sell Short Day for the 10 year T Note futures; actually for all along the Treasury curve. I was watching Ten Years today. Monday through Thursday last week saw bearish action; the...

Gold futures have staged a good rally in the past weeks, rallying $84 from the February 5 low.  Today it reached a significant price level and had a good trade opportunity in the process.  What was it? Friday’s...

Overnight the Greek Finance Minister said there’s no need for an EU bailout of Greece.  Sovereign concerns were already easing; this helped it out.  The sharp move in the Euro/Yen cross is a sign of the return of...

By the Taylor Method (read the basics here), today was a Sell day for the Euro Currency futures.  As you can see on the daily chart below, it had bearish action Tuesday to Thursday last week (open higher than the close)....

Many Asian markets were closed overnight for the Chinese (Lunar) New Year.  Monday saw a strong GDP report from Japan; last night a German economic survey came in better than expected.  Barclay’s Bank posted good...

Last Thursday I did a web seminar on swing trading using the methods I use and teach for my Swing Trader’s Insight advisory.  The core methodology I use is based on the work of George Douglas Taylor, what I call the...

Last night the PBOC raised Chinese bank reserve requirements by 50 BPs to try to cool their economy and property markets.  There were some scary stories about Chinese real estate last night.  Bloomberg had a story that...