The difference between success and failure in Forex trading is very likely to depend upon which currency pairs you choose to trade each week, and not on the exact trading methods you might use to determine trade entries and exits. Each week I am going to analyze fundamentals, sentiment and technical positions in order to…
It’s not easy to hedge energy infrastructure stocks or MLPs. The relationship with crude oil is unreliable. There’s no MLP futures contract, and if you think the K-1s that come with owning MLPs are onerous, try shorting one and see how complex the tax reporting can be. The past few months have been a time…
After holding onto huge, unprofitable long positions for months, gold and silver futures speculators are finally giving up and bailing out, while commercial traders (who take the opposite side of these trades, since every long requires an offsetting short) are closing out their shorts at a near-record pace. Here’s the gold data for last week,…
Fundamental Forecast for JPY: Bearish Dovish FOMC Rate Hike to Rattle USD/JPY Rate Recovery. Japanese Yen Technical Analysis: Where are the USD/JPY Bulls? Next week brings the final Bank of Japan rate decision for 2017. It’s been a rather quiet year for the BoJ, all factors considered; and quite the respite from the past few years…
We have received many requests from readers to publish a Dash Price Forecast for 2018, especially after we covered Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Ripple. The timing is interesting as well since last week, Dash reached the 1000 USD which is a major milestone for this cryptocurrency that was launched in 2014. So what is next for Dash? More upside potential? A…
Ethereum uses blockchain technology to create and negotiate smart contracts. These contracts are carried out through Ether, the cryptocurrency’s medium of exchange. The organization of contracts is called DAO or Decentralized Autonomous Organization. The benefit of these contracts is that they form a decentralized unit which protects against fraudulent actions and outside control. Ether is…
It is pretty much expected today that any investment analysis with justifiable conclusions will be steeped in technical study that includes lots of charts. This seems especially true of gold. Which is all well and good, I suppose; except for the obfuscation: Obfuscation is the obscuring of the intended meaning of communication by making the message difficult…
This week we’ll begin with our monthly and weekly forecasts of the currency pairs worth watching. The first part of our forecast is based upon our research of the past 16 years of Forex prices, which show that the following methodologies have all produced profitable results: · Trading the two currencies that are trending the most strongly…
With a meager $200 million budget, the third new Star Wars movie takes us to a “galaxy far, far away.” Heavily funded and clearly extra-terrestrial, the market transports the bulls to their own galaxy far, far away. In the film, vivid characters take you through an action-packed adventure. Visual dazzle adds to the spectacle. In the market,…
Some of you experienced the bursting of the dot.com bubble and some may have experienced déjà vu when the Financial Crisis hit. How many of you, however, remember being an equity investor on Black Monday (October 19th, 1987)? The headlines from Black Monday would rattle even the most confident investor: ‘Stocks Plunge 508 Amid Panicky…
