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Before you consider risking your money in a trading account, it is a good idea to make sure the method you plan on using works in both up and down markets. The biggest hurdle to profitable trading is not deciding which direction to trade in, but ...
Through much of the year the dollar rose and fell in lock-step with the polls for the democrat's presidential candidate. Clinrton went up in the polls and the dollar rallied. Trump went up in the polls and the dollar sold-off. At least until the ...
While U.S. economic releases last week hardly painted a positive picture of the economy, and the Euro gained sharply against the dollar, there was a couple of developments that reminded us that many economic reports are “rear view mirror indicators” ...
With new U.S. Durable Goods orders having come in lower for 6 of the last 7 months, and the S&P 500 having chugged happily higher over that same period, market analysts have to be asking the question "what gives?" Here is a historic chart of new ...
"Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves." Peter Lynch, legendary fund manager. I completely agree with Peter Lynch's thought process, ...
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." Confucius The past year definitely favored traders who followed the golden rule of trend trading: "let your profits run". And I see no reason this will change in 2015. This past year ...
The U.S. economy as measured by its Gross Domestic Product - GDP / see Figure 1-over the last 50 years has been a steamroller. Figure 1. U.S. GDP Fueled by retail purchases - Figure 2 -- the U.S. economy historically doesn't slow down, but rather ...
1. Consumption drives markets - your neighbor's spending habits are for more important than your thoughts on the economy. 2. Markets and economies are as resilient as people - consider Mankind's progress over the last 50 years. 3. It is rarely a ...
While the idea of different dimensions in time and space in our physical world makes my head spin, the idea of different time dimensions in markets makes perfect sense. Before however we cover how to identify the appropriate dimension in time to be ...
Markets are like ocean liners, they take a long time and a lot of room to turn around. But when they do, they are steadfast in holding the course of that new direction. The current long-term bottom the U.S. Dollar has sewn in over the last several ...
Given the correct map, the appropriate tools, and adequate supplies what appears to be the most difficult of journey's can be simplified. Environment I have been emerged in competitive environments my whole life, and the one component of success ...
Most of us are familiar with static analysis, which is defined as either fundamental or technical analysis as measured up to a particular point in time, i.e. previous market behavior. It is our static analysis that provides a directional bias - ...
It is a paradox of life that the less we care about something the easier it is to obtain, and the more attached we become to an outcome the harder it is to achieve. The same is true in trading, where we can substitute the word "predict" for "care". ...
Most traders today don't need to see headlines like: "Currency Traders' Strategies Foiled as Trends Go Missing" to know that volatility in the financial markets has been moving lower for some time. For day-traders this is a good thing because ...
A trend trader's goal is not to pick tops or bottoms, but to capture the proverbial "meat in the middle", i.e.: the bulk of a market move following a reversal. We see the Euro and Swiss franc entering that phase right now. Draghi earned the market's ...
Before you consider risking your money in a trading account, it might be a good idea to make sure you have a rule based trading plan in place that works in both up and down markets. The advantage of a static, rule based plan is you can gauge the ...
Markets follow the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics which states that the entropy of a closed system never decreases because a closed system tends toward maximum entropy, or equilibrium. Entropy is defined as uncertainty. Uncertainty in the market means ...
But the truth on the ground — at least at this moment in time — is very different. (Also on POLITICO: Obama lays out economic plan) Goldman Sachs, the biggest money machine in Wall Street history, is a shell of its former self. Morgan Stanley, ...
While there is much anticipation of a U.S. Dollar rally it cannot start in earnest until U.S. interest rates turn back higher. And that won't happen with U.S. Treasuries moving higher - there is an inverse relationship between Treasury prices and ...
Most intuitively understand that following a sensible, proven life regimen is the way to balance the conflict that sometimes arises between our logical side and our very human, emotional side. In trading, it is actually better to check emotions at ...